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Murphy's Law of self recovery winches, by cattlerepairman:
1) Any winch cable is at least three feet too short to reach the right anchor point
Corollary to 1) If the winch cable is of sufficient length, the pull angle is out of spec
2) If the winch is equipped with a shear pin, it will break...
I have plenty of experience with hydraulic winches and some with electric ones. My own PTO winch on my truck still makes me anxious whenever I operate it. Spooling cable is easy - operating the PTO winch safely is not.
The beefy PTO winch looks great on the truck and it belongs there. If I had...
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