So the other day i was at Sams Club, and on the clearance rack they had a champion 10,000lb winch for $299.00. I hade some birthday money on hand and i couldnt pass it up. It's mounted on a 2" hitch mount plate and came with 85 feet of winch cable, the controler, and front and rear wireing conectors. Hears some pics!!!




hitch off our old minivan


cut off receiver and welded it to a 2x6 stainless steel 1/4wall piece of scrap my buddie had in his shop.






painted




I tested it out the night i put it on, held up great winched me out of a deep hole that i was framed in. What do guys think?

 

wow dude! thats cheaper than a china HF winch... i like the hitch mount really cool!

 

Looks nicely done, and sure is a nice thing to have on the trail.

 

Nice man. If I had any money left over I'd probably get a winch lol.

 

one more.

 

nice! i need to keep my eyes open for one of those. winch is one of the next things i plan on doing on my truck

 

Dude, you stole that think @ $300, go back and grab one for me.

 

That thing is only $300? I'm not so fond of having a winch on a 2wd, but i'd sure rock a hitch mounted one! Since I'm usually the one who needs drug lol

 

You welded it to the tow hooks?? Good deal

 

i want a winch :( looks good. i cant wait til i have my front receiver

 

I didnt notice that before, i thought it was supported between the frame. Just using that stock tow hook crossmember, if you end up using all the umph that winch will kick out. I bet money you'll twist that stock crossmember like a pretzel!

square crossmember ftw

 

Yeah I wouldn't trust it much pulling straight on the tow hooks. What I plan on doing is putting a piece of square tubing between the frame rails that butts up to the front crossmember than weld the tube to that.

 

Yea. I could pull a house down with the current way my hooks are. (well i have pulled a good tree down lol). But the stock crossmember I cut out, that had stock hooks were tweaked bad. Everytime (3x) i used the front hooks, i had to get the HUGE prybar out and tweak the hook back down. Also with adding that front crossmember to mine, I immediately noticed a stiffer front end while driving.

 

I'd like to build a custom front bumper for my truck but i cant till im out of school. I was home for the weekend and built that so i could use the winch. so ill run this set up till next year or untill i break it. lol

 

10k lbs winch for $299! dang, thats a killer deal! Hope it works out for you

 

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That looks great! Good deal too.

 

nice grab. they never had that in any of the sam's around here.

 

I love having it on my truck, i get tons of looks now. plus with the body lift i just did i sit level with full sized trucks. lol

 

wow! looks really good!

 

That was a huge piece of stainless steel. Lots of money right there. It would have been better looking if you bumped the hitch up a few inches so you didn't have to cut your valance. How did you weld the hitch to the SS plate?

 

I got the stainless for free cauz it was scrap. I uesed stainless welding wire in a mig welder.

 

Awesome dude. So lucky you can have that.

 

thats very nice way to mount it.

lol 2 bad i diddnt think of it before i redid my bull bar :(

 

Nice idea.

Doesn't look like stainless filler metal to me. I call BS.