12000 lbs will rip your jeep in half it will even pull the rated weight.

 

Just a quick amazon search

 

I had a Superwinch EPi9.0 that lasted about 3 pulls. It broke and Superwinch said it was my fault and basically said kick dirt. That was after 5 months of back and forth and ME having to make EVERY effort to contact them. O yea I had to pay the $100 to ship it to them to look at it. Anyways, after that fiasco I too wanted an inexpensive winch.
Moto Alliance did a winch giveaway on JeepForum and that was good enough to win my business.
I bought this winch:
https://motoalliance.com/Site.Store....tDetails&id=49
It has been a great winch and comes with some nice extras.
Here is their eBay store where you can usually ALWAYS get it cheaper.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/9500LB-Self-...item5ae309c97c
http://www.ebay.com/itm/10000LB-Self...item56466631b7
As soon as I get a bumper on my Samurai I will be buying another one. They have a pretty good reputation in the ATV and UTV world as well.

 

The likely hood of it pulling 12k once is slim to none so I wouldn't be worried about it pulling anything in half.

 

how would one go about testing a winch and its pulling power? i work with things that weigh a lot at work. . wonder if i could put the good ol hf 12k to the test?

 

Hey Thanx for the info. Rather than some of the other guys telling me to go buy a name brand high dollar winch. I like the viper max 9,500LB plus all the goodies it comes with. I might have to check that one out.

 

Yep, not a problem. The way I look at buying an inexpensive winch is this. Don't wheel alone, this is preached and preached, so if that inexpensive one does break, your good cause your wheeling with buddies.
Side note, when my $600+ Superwinch broke, I was wheeling with buddies so whatever.

 

It's not that I'm always getting winched (maybe 3 times in a year & a half), but us UT boys play hard...

 

I'm sure I could get pretty close at my house......

 

any one see this one a couple of my friends run them on there tjs with no issues

 

theres also this one little more money cause shipping includedhttp://www.promarkoffroad.com/promar...ery-winch.html

 

Ya obviously WARN. Has the best protect out and no one here is arguing that but! We all don't have piles of money laying around to throw at a winch
Some of us build and wheel on a tight budget
Mine is my daily driver and a 12,000 pound harbor freight winch is better than. No winch at all
My buddy has that same winch on his 496 stroker on 44's and it has been working for him or 2 years now

 

Just go buy the HF overkill winch already! Make sure you get back to us, & let us know how it failed you... I mean worked for you. Haha

 

Well im looking at 3 Different winches the HF 12,000LB the RC 9,500LB and the Viper Max 9,500LB that afbond03 was talking about. Those are in my price range. The only 2 things I honestly like about the HF is it has the most rated pulling power over the other two and if it does fail and I were to get the 2 year warranty with it I can always just go by the store and swap it for a brand new one that same day instead of like one of the others you would have to send it off and be at there mercy and wait for them to even fix it or cover it under warranty for another one.

 

Ya I just want the piece of mind that it will be there on the trail when I need it! I wouldn't rely on HF stuff for that!