Portable winch, POWERED

Hi Folks. Winch time. Years ago I had a winch on the front of my Jimny, along with a Bullbar. Way too much weight so I got rid of both and bought myself a "Come-along" hand winch. This works perfectly if a little slow and bulky (The cable is the bulky bit) in the boot.

"Come-along"


I have recently noticed portable winches that are powered off the car battery with 8' of power lead and corded plus remote. All the gear shown in this pic.


Has anyone used one of these systems yet? I like the idea of only putting the winch in the car when going off-road, keeps the weight down plus you can winch from front or back or even sideways I guess :woohoo:

I suppose one of them is ok until your swamped down to your axles and snap the little rope

only rated to 2000lb (which is less than the jim) so its nowhere near enough, a properly stuck vehicle can weigh 2-3-4 times as much as a non stuck vehicle.

There is no real alternative to a winch. Even a small 6500lb winch will do for a Jimny. And they don't weigh much. And you don't have to mess around with all sorts of things if you get stuck. Just pull the rope out and winch in

I too have looked at this... But you will need to use a bigger winch

You can buy portable mounts for normal winches that uses a hitch to attach to the vehicle

I think ity might be ORA that sells them

I have a 1700lb winch, from Screwfix, that mounts over the tow bar. I bought it mainly to load cars on and off a trailer but it wouldn't even pull my SJ up the ramps. I can't see a 2000lb winch being much better, OK for an ATV maybe but not a full-size vehicle and definately not one thats stuck.

www.screwfix.com/p/1700lbs-vehicle-winch/35084#

Rhinoman wrote: I have a 1700lb winch, from Screwfix, that mounts over the tow bar. I bought it mainly to load cars on and off a trailer but it wouldn't even pull my SJ up the ramps. I can't see a 2000lb winch being much better, OK for an ATV maybe but not a full-size vehicle and definately not one thats stuck.

www.screwfix.com/p/1700lbs-vehicle-winch/35084#

i use one simular to that.but my getting stuck is different to the way you guys get stuck
when i got it we had a lump of nearly 1ton metal pipe at work so i used that to tighten the wire up on the pully
it dragged it no bother along the car park but took ages , it seems to have a low gear ratio on it

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I had one of these 3000lb winches fitted on the jimny when I got it and you would be extremely surprised where it pulled me out from and never let me down half way up the door in water and mud and that horrible clay type mud for around 30 metres was one of the worst bits
few pics I have of places it pulled me out of