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 Post subject: How do you like your Winch?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:49 pm 
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I really like mine so far and think it may be my best mod that i have done. It gets me unstuck it and gives me more confidence to try new things.

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Best mod i've done for wheeling other than the locker, and lift, and tires, skids, and bumper... :lol:

but seriously It has helped me and many others out!

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my wench is great ;)

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Which one :oops:

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yellocoyote wrote:
JeepinJarhead03 wrote:
my wench is great ;)


is she reading this? :lol:

lol

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Xodius wrote:
yellocoyote wrote:
JeepinJarhead03 wrote:
my wench is great ;)


is she reading this? :lol:

lol


Lol soa fter I put my TJM bumper on I kept talking about how i needed a winch, than one night i was drinking and tlaking about the winch i wanted to get and said something like this. "hey hunny why dont you just sit on my front bumper" well my cheeeek was red for a week hehe after that


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Yes i know the feeling!

Lipstick has a way of really stickin to your cheek!

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I guess I'll be the odd ball... I had one on my 86 CJ for 9 months and never used it once. It was always quicker to just hook a strap to another vehicle. It all depends on the kind of wheeling you do I guess and how many people go with you.

For wheeling in my area I don't feel the need for one and probably won't buy one again.

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bighause wrote:
I guess I'll be the odd ball... I had one on my 86 CJ for 9 months and never used it once. It was always quicker to just hook a strap to another vehicle. It all depends on the kind of wheeling you do I guess and how many people go with you.

For wheeling in my area I don't feel the need for one and probably won't buy one again.


There are times though when i would rather have a slow controlled pull out of a situation than to be jerked out by a strap.

The winch has many different uses. For instance it's also useful for clearing trees. I used it to clear a big tree that had fallen across the trail once. Another time i used it to pull someone's car out of the ditch.

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icarl wrote:
bighause wrote:
I guess I'll be the odd ball... I had one on my 86 CJ for 9 months and never used it once. It was always quicker to just hook a strap to another vehicle. It all depends on the kind of wheeling you do I guess and how many people go with you.

For wheeling in my area I don't feel the need for one and probably won't buy one again.


There are times though when i would rather have a slow controlled pull out of a situation than to be jerked out by a strap.

The winch has many different uses. For instance it's also useful for clearing trees. I used it to clear a big tree that had fallen across the trail once. Another time i used it to pull someone's car out of the ditch.
Most times I use the strap but there are those occasions that a strap is not feasible like pulling a fellow KJ up a very steep and very loose hill and he is 75'+ from the top and the top of the climb is a hard right turn,a winch comes in very handy there where a strap just will not work.


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I've only had the need to use it once to pull an FJ out of a mudpit. Priceless! Had a strap with me too but there wasn't room to use it.

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