Okay, so another newbie here. Going to look at a truck this weekend that has the factory winch. I also feel it's in the way of a larger fuel tank, but after reading this thread I'll figure out a work around for that. Now relative to the comments about you can't be in gear when the PTO is engaged, from what I have seen in videos that is not correct. What was demonstrated in the video was that if you engage the PTO while in neutral, and then shift in to gear it will kick the PTO off. If you, however, are in gear and then engaue the PTO you can run the winch while driving so the winch is assisting the truck. If you then shift into neutral and then back in to gear, it will again disengage the PTO.