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Winch size ?
Range Rover Blues:
Well it used to be that 8,000lbs was considered sufficient, on the grounds that you need a pull of roughly twice the mass of your truck.
The it became 9,000lbs or 9,500 a couple of years ago
Now eveyone wants 12,000lbs and above, probably as the price comes down.
Given how much more a 12,000lb winch weighs I wouldn't bother, better to spens you cash on a decnt wich that actually pulls somewhere near to it's rated capacity and spend the rest of a swingaway pulley block ;)
Smego:
This question get on my nerves with people saying "oh oh must be a 12000 'cause you will need it mud is very sticky"
I put an in line scale on my old zuki ones (class A calibrated from work) and mesured the pull on average it was around 3000lb for a stuck truck the most it ever peaked at was just under 6klb and that needed me to be attached to a tree and the winch slowed before yanking out the series 3.
Guardian.:
dont think a 3000lb with pull a loaded 110 out of deep mud if its stuck, it depends on many factors as to wich winch someone should buy, what they are doing with it is the main one. id like to know that if i was winching down or up a rockface (people do) that the winch was having a walk in the park rather than getting near its limmits, some competitions require speed, so your onto the top end winches, there is no set answer, if you get the biggest and best you can afford, you can do no more than that!
however if its just for pulling you along a rut in a green lane, then a little 1000lb boat winch will be more than adequate.
Range Rover Blues:
Also of coourse a 9,000lb winch is only going to pull that at best with a bare drum, on the 3rd layer it's going to be what, a 5,000lb winch?
Smego:
All I am saying is a 8-9000lb winch will be ok for 90% of situations.
I was told the other week that if you had a 110 you "needed" a 15,000lb winch!!!
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