12 VDC winches,,,??

The winch I was gonna buy to pull the well pump on our lot next door has not worked out. I been looking at those at Harbor freight as well as Ebay. I would like to buy one I could possibly use on my trailer after well project is done. I'm thinking bout a 4000# winch is what I want.
I noticed that the rectangular shaped "Boat Winches" have much higher pull ratings than the regular shaped ATV winches that are bout 14" wide. The Boat winches are bout 8" long X6"wide X 8"tall. Anybody got any experiences with either one,,??

years ago I bought one of those $99. jobs from Sam's club, it has served me well thru the years, but is starting to get weaker. a friend had one of them remote control (wireless) winches from HF, I wouldn't pull a corvair onto a trailer. I think it was a #5000 lbs winch. there are so many variables of sizes and powers, prolly hafta use process of elimination? how deep is your well? if it's stuck, might be better off hiring it pulled, be lots less grief, and you DON'T need any more grief right now!

OK, here's another 'gotcha'... most ATV style winches to NOT lock /hold the load when power is removed !! They 'free wheel' when power is off.. Found that out the hard way,DADT. Also some(all ?) use 2 self-resetting circuit breakers in parallel for power protection. Problem is when one fails, the other trip real fast..yeah another of life's lessons. If you want power them through a proper 'contactor' which is really 2 form C relays( NO-com-NC), about $40. That WILL provide hard braking when the power is off. My riding snowblower  is wired this way and blower stays up forever....
If you run teh cable through a snatch block ,you double the pulling power but it'll go 2x slower. Also connect directly to battery or heavy duty cables....

Jay

I had a Ramsey 12,000 planetary winch on the bed of my 5 ton for loading on the hydraulic beaver tail, the winch worked well, but I couldnt keep brakes in it. After a few years of that frustration, I bought a top of the line 12,000 Ramsey worm gear winch, couldn't keep motors in that one, as the motor was bronze bushed with a pinion gear to drive the gearbox, the pinion was un-supported on the outboard end thus putting all the load on the motor bearing. Over $3,000 in American made winches thus far and not too happy, I bought a $300 12,000 lb winch at HF, used it for four years, no problems, sold it with the truck. I replaced the truck with a tilt deck trailer, installed another HF 12,000 winch on that, worked fine for three years until a few weeks ago when somebody decided that they needed the trailer worse than I did. New trailer is on order and will equip it the same. I have another 5,000 lb HF winch I bought for utility use, and it seems fine also. I think they may be a little optimistic about capacity, but for the price, just go one size larger than you think you will ever need.

I gots a winch for ya...has about 100 ft of 3/4 inch cable on it, and a BIG hook! you can mount it on any heavy trailer or truck, it would bottom out your ferds!

truckerfarmer wrote: Actual increase by adding snatch block is 70.7% with each additional pulley, calculated after each pulley. Sorry, used to be Wreckmaster certified back when I drove tow truck. Was on the test.

Ya, 2x theoretical, 70.7 must be rule of thumb actual for friction and direction change around the sheave 😎