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Demountable winches

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muddyweb:
Most of the existing winch mounting systems use a standard receiver system.

Have a look here :

http://www.warn.com/truck/mounting-systems/multi_mount.shtml

Darren:
Thanks for that, Tim. Nice, but pricey :)

However, following on from freeagents suggestion, I've been speaking to Alfred Murray (they of the Milemarker) this morning. They do a complete demountable kit for the Defender but can sell me just the winch carrier for about £150. The big advantage of this is that the demountable coupling is a standard Dixon Bate slider, so all I need to complete it is either a cut down adjustable frame or a simple U shaped steel section that I can bolt to my tow bar bracket. This means I can reasonably easily engineer a rear demountable winch - the front is a little more complicated but that can wait 'till later :D

freeagent:
thats just what i had in mind Darren.
my old defender had a cut down dixon bate thingy on the rear cross-member, i had about 5 dixon bate sliders with different fittings.. including one with a vice on it... pointless untill the day that you realy need it, then its priceless.

Range Rover Blues:
I've got one, it's great.  Just sits on a towball, job done.  It's from Dave Bowyer and it's called a backrack.  Ã‚£60.

I have no to winch to get stolen, I have no winch to confound the insurance company, I have no winch adding too much weight right out over the front axle, then just by lifting a big bag out of the boot I have a winch at either end of my car.

Ask yourself, how often will you use it? if it's not every day then it's just there for show, and I'd rather not let everybody know what I've got thanks.

Besides, the amount of peole who try to drive under the front of my car, it'd just get smashed :roll:

Darren:
Hi RRB,

It's interesting to find somebody who's used the Bak Rak. I looked at it but wasn't really sure how stable the mounting would be for recovery purposes. Does it rotate much on the tow ball, and how far out does it project?

Oh, and I don't need convincing of the benefits of having it demountable :lol:

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