« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2021, 06:34:16 AM »
So I ended up getting the portable marine winch from harbor freight. It has an adaptor plate that slips onto a trailer ball. I decided to trim the plastics below the license plate mount to open up the cross bar on the frame and I mount a shackle there that uses that adaptor plate since the hitch, A probably wont have a ball mount in it when on a trip and B even if it did if I'm buried to where I need to retreat backwards there's a good chance it'll be submerged. Tried it out in the yard as a test and seems to work pretty good. I'll need to come up with a decent way to hook up power when needed but in a pinch it'll work. The winch is just barely strong enough probably but I can use a snatch block if not too. The other reason I decided to try this route is I can toss it up front if that winch fails or somewhere on the roll cage if and when I go over or just need to stabilize to prevent rolling over. My biggest gripe at this point is this winch does not have reverse. Did not check for that when I ordered it. guess its not a deal breaker but it would be nice to have that as well as manually pulling the cable out. Oh well.
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