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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 09:50 AM
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Yes, for certain. I hate hooks, but have spent quite a bit of my play money recently, so have to wait a bit until after christmas before playing again but that is definitely on my short list of things to get...right after a PVS 14 Gen 3.
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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 09:57 AM
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{I} have spent quite a bit of my play money recently, so have to wait a bit until after christmas before playing again but that is definitely on my short list of things to get...right after a PVS 14 Gen 3.
Jeebus that's worth more than my jeep! How much play money do you get?
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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 10:42 AM
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I have been very surprised with my bumper that the winch has never caused an over heating issue any where any time as much as it blocks.
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I do like the way the OP's looks. My winch had syn rope on it when I bought it but after a few uses it started to fray a lot from tree bark and small rocks on up hill pulls where it had to be on the ground in some places. After about 6 uses I removed it and replaced with wire rope because of all the fraying and use for a secondary recovery line for my Hi Lift jack when needed.


We have rocks everywhere in this area mostly smaller ones and they will cut a lot of things including tire sidewalls in the flint rock.


The Factor 55 connector is a vg idea when using D-Rings, I bought mine when I bought my winch.

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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Fred/N0AZZ
I have been very surprised with my bumper that the winch has never caused an over heating issue any where any time as much as it blocks.

I do like the way the OP's looks. My winch had syn rope on it when I bought it but after a few uses it started to fray a lot from tree bark and small rocks on up hill pulls where it had to be on the ground in some places. After about 6 uses I removed it and replaced with wire rope because of all the fraying and use for a secondary recovery line for my Hi Lift jack when needed.


We have rocks everywhere in this area mostly smaller ones and they will cut a lot of things including tire sidewalls in the flint rock.


The Factor 55 connector is a vg idea when using D-Rings, I bought mine when I bought my winch.


Oh come on Fred. harshing my mellow about my new kewl winch line.
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Old Nov 22, 2016 | 01:03 PM
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Jeebus that's worth more than my jeep! How much play money do you get?
All I can say is that hooking has been good to me!
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Old Nov 23, 2016 | 10:19 AM
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Oh come on Fred. harshing my mellow about my new kewl winch line.

After hauling cables around on tow trucks I was Gung Ho on the Syn. rope light and strong with no steel splinters in my hands and was down on it. But the damn flint rock from winching up steep embankments was it's downfall.


Try not to let it drag against trees during the pull either, that may have been my fault because the Jeep slid to the side a little then the rope was against the tree and I kept winching it was a long pull and I didn't want to re-hook yet.
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Old Nov 23, 2016 | 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Fred/N0AZZ
After hauling cables around on tow trucks I was Gung Ho on the Syn. rope light and strong with no steel splinters in my hands and was down on it. But the damn flint rock from winching up steep embankments was it's downfall.


Try not to let it drag against trees during the pull either, that may have been my fault because the Jeep slid to the side a little then the rope was against the tree and I kept winching it was a long pull and I didn't want to re-hook yet.
Yeah, we live not too far away from each other, so we wheel in similar stuff. I will definitely use tree protection to guard the tree and my winch rope. Not sure what I can do about the rocks, but will burn that bridge down when I come to it.
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