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Demountable winches
Darren:
Has anybody got one? Or can point me at a decent picture of a demountable winch cradle?
I've never really craved a winch before but I've just won one in a competition - a T-Max EW 11000. It even came with one of those under bumper discreet winch mounts :shock: However, I'm now seriously considering having some brackets made up to suit my Southdown tank guard and Terrain Master steering guard that will enable me to attach a winch at either end of the vehicle. I don't, however, want to re-invent the wheel so I'd like to see what's already out there. The only company that I know of that made a similar system was Marshland, but their website has gone and I'm presuming they have too.
freeagent:
If you do manage to track down marshland, could you post some details, I bought one of their rear recovery plates for my old defender, and thought it was one of the best pieces of 'rover kit i've ever bought, from anyone.
if they are still around, they can have an order for a pair of discovery bumpers from me....
as for removable winches... the only idea i've got is to fit one to a dixon-bate slider... but it doesn't sound liek you've got a dixon-bate drop hitch on your truck......
Tyke:
Too much messing about are demountable winches and, invariably, if your stuck and need to use it you need to mess about with fitting it and if your up the 'gunnels' in mud and crap you will wish it was already fitted.
Damned heavy things to mess about with in recovery situation.
If it cost you nowt and you don't want it though, I'll find it a home :lol:
Fix the [!Expletive Deleted!] permanently and be done with it :wink:
Darren:
Each to their own, Tyke. For what I use my truck for I'm much more likely to be recovering somebody else than myself but even so, if I make it demountable then I don't have to lug it around for the 90% of the time when I really won't need it. Plus, I like an engineering challenge :lol:
If I could get an off-the-shelf demountable cradle, I can easily make an adapter to fit my Southdown tank guard so I may end up with a rear mounted winch at first. Making a mount for the front is a little more involved but that could wait 'till later.
Darren:
--- Quote from: "freeagent" ---as for removable winches... the only idea i've got is to fit one to a dixon-bate slider... but it doesn't sound liek you've got a dixon-bate drop hitch on your truck......
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That woud certainly make the 'demounting' bit easy.
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