Winches In Hell

nick c · Sep 20, 2007

A friend of mine who lives in Utah met one of the editors from this magazine (Moab Jeeper) at a parts house, and the guy gave him a copy of the magazine that he had in his rig. It had this story in it, so he forwarded a link to it to me.

thought it was a half decent read.

http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/listing.cfm?articleID=353

hwcurtice · Sep 20, 2007

Nice article.

And with a dropdown for other good articles as well....

TreeClimber · Sep 20, 2007

Good read.

1 grumpy · Sep 20, 2007

TreeClimber said:
Good read.

I agree but it's too bad they didn't have my winch on there(8274)

nick c · Sep 20, 2007

So the word I heard was they are going to do a retest in a month or so, will be interesting to hear what happens.

1 grumpy · Sep 20, 2007

NAC25 said:
So the word I heard was they are going to do a retest in a month or so, will be interesting to hear what happens.

Thank's for the link though:awesomework:

Hip · Sep 20, 2007

superwinch was barely second. i would have thought warn would be way out in front. good read.

too bad they didnt put the 8274 in there just for comparison sake...:stirpot:

sorry i didnt see grumpys post before i wrote mine.

1 grumpy · Sep 20, 2007

Hip said:
superwinch was barely second. i would have thought warn would be way out in front. good read.

too bad they didnt put the 8274 in there just for comparison sake...:stirpot:

sorry i didnt see grumpys post before i wrote mine.

no worries I agree with you 100%

hunkajunk · Sep 22, 2007

Great article.

Lets you know what you pay for in a Warn.

Bunk1 · Sep 23, 2007

Im gonna replace my warn with a chicago. I would prefer a slower winch to move my axle around.

1 grumpy · Sep 23, 2007

Bunk said:
Im gonna replace my warn with a chicago. I would prefer a slower winch to move my axle around.

So does that mean your selling your Warn if so let me know how much??

PUO-BANNED · Sep 23, 2007

The 8274 Rules:; if it was in the comp all others would have looked like ****.

Binder · Sep 23, 2007

pullUout said:
The 8274 Rules:; if it was in the comp all others would have looked like ****.

They were comparing "comparable" winches. There are a number of winches that would blow all of those winches away but they wouldn't be "comparable".

Pat · Sep 23, 2007

I've abused the crap out of my Chicago winch. It's slow as hell but still works every time. As for the cable retainer coming loose- duct tape. Then get a good first wind on the drum and don't pull it out too far. My 100' cable is now effectively 80' or so but that emergency trail fix is still working fine, pulled up, through and over everything. Someday I'll fix it right but it's not "disqualified".