Outer Limits 4x4 Board

after a new winch for my patrol what is the average price for a 9500 lb been looking at tmax

get on ebay and have a look mate, they're around $1250 on there generally, otherwise they're about $1400 off the shelf last time I looked. Someone off here will be able to do you a better deal when they read this.

cheers sounds hopeful

Whatever you do make sure you avoid the god awful cheap nasty chinese jobbies that ebay is plagued with at the moment!

why not go for a good 2nd hand Warn?

heard all about those throw away chinese jobs !!!!!!!! Not big on second hand winches as heard too many story about being water logged .Thinking of a tmax for around $1350 just wondering what they are like and if this price is good or not ?
They are infa red remote and 9500 lb with emergency control cable just in case of remote failure

i was in my local auto shop yesterday and they had ironman brand 12000 lb winches there for under $1000 new in box (does anyone know much about the ironman brand winches)

dirtyGQ wrote:Not big on second hand winches as heard too many story about being water logged .

...depends on who you buy it off.

My 10k warn was a grand, came off a 100 series that had never been used... saved me a grand and I got the best brand out there.

Same as anything second hand, shop around and worse comes to worse, $50 for a winch service.

in everyones honest opinion are wichs that necessary?? Do you really use them that much?? I mean if they werent so expensive id get one for the hell of it but i just cant justify it right now, unless i find a cheap scond handy....lol whats other peoples opinions??

TinyGQ

TinyGQ wrote:in everyones honest opinion are wichs that necessary?? Do you really use them that much??

you only have to save yor arse once to have it worth while... depends on what wheeling you do.. some people never use em, others use them every trip

barnsey wrote:I'm thinking of getting a second hand tirfor. It would probably be more useful and cost effective for the driving I do.

1 day @ 35 degrees + screaming kids and wife + 2+ hours on turfor = ??
1 day @ 35 degrees + 10 mins on electric controller inside cab with air conditioner on = ??

nothing sucks more than """mates""" hearing that you have a winch and getting come get me unstuck phonecalls, to get there and find them pissed and slow to help. shits me. now its no i can't.

TinyGQ wrote:in everyones honest opinion are wichs that necessary?? Do you really use them that much?? I mean if they werent so expensive id get one for the hell of it but i just cant justify it right now, unless i find a cheap scond handy....lol whats other peoples opinions??

TinyGQ

I have recently taken my 10 000lb winch and bar off my Rodeo due to a body lift. I have used it a couple of times when out by myself but have never used it when out with my club. My fuel economy has got better since removing it.
I was going to get a tube bar made up to suit the body lift and winch but now I think I'll just leave the winch in the garage ready for the next fourby. I'll either sell the bar or keep it and see if it will help me sell my ute (owner can modify it themselves).

bogged wrote:

barnsey wrote:I'm thinking of getting a second hand tirfor. It would probably be more useful and cost effective for the driving I do.

1 day @ 35 degrees + screaming kids and wife + 2+ hours on turfor = ??
1 day @ 35 degrees + 10 mins on electric controller inside cab with air conditioner on = ??

Going on my experience at Gembrook on Sunday, you need both!

Handwinch to get it back on its wheels, then electric winch to get it out the boghole!!

If you're considering just a handwinch you need to borrow someone elses for a day and go and get stuck - I guarantee you'll go out the next day and buy an electric one!

hahaha, yeah, I had a mate with me that'd never been out wheelin in the scrub before. I took him out by myself just for a bit of a play one day and conversation went like this.... (mind you, I'd just had a knee reconstruction only 2 weeks before!!) (And it was in my stocko before I got my toy..)

Him: Hey go thru that... it looks really cool when you go thru deep mud and stuff...

Me: Nah, we don't have another car to snatch us if we get stuck....

Him: Ohh, this thing won't get stuck!!!!

Me: You reckon... I've been out more times than you and I know what it can and can't do....

Him: Your shitn you'll f*&$ your car aren't ya.... hahahaha

Me: OK then... just to prove a point... if we get stuck, are you gunna hand winch me out???

Him: Ok then.... deal. I still don't reckon it'll get stuck!!!

Me: I'm getting this baby stuck just for the hell of it now.. HAHAHA Thinks he's smart huh!!! ( well i got it stuck in mud about 3-4 inches up the doors, and it suctioned real well too!!! )

ME: Well, we're stuck.. I'll help you set the hand winch up... and after that it's all yours.... hehehe

Him: No prob... let me at it!!!

25 mins later......

Him: this is a F*%#n joke.... why the f&%$ did you let me tell you to go thru there when you knew it wouldn't get thru......

Me: Well you promised to winch it out if it got stuck..... SOOOO, I GOT IT STUCK!!!!

Well.... didn't he let me have it.... was one of the funniest things I've seen... and he knew he had to get it out too... cause he had no idea where he was and he knew I wasn't capable of doing it with my knee...... and not only that... I made him scull drag it all the way out too, without helping him by nudging it forward by riding the clutch as he winched it.

End of the day....

ME:
Him:

GOOD STORY SOUNDS UN FUN HA HA !!!!!!!!
I GOT WELL AND TRULY STUCK RECENTLY AND HAD THREE CARS COME AND TRY AND GET ME OUT ALL GOT BOGGED SO ANOTHER CAR CAME AND TRYED TO SNATCH MY MATE OUT BUT SNATCHIE BROKE WIPE OUT BACK DOOR OF AN 80 SERIES AND BACK DOOR OF A GU !!!!!!! COST ME A FORTUNE !!!! SO FORGET THE HAND WINCH TOO MUCH WORK AND ALSO AS SOMEONE ELSE SAID TOO HOT AND KIDS MOANING ETC.

a mate had to winch his car to the top of the hill with a tirfor. 4hours later when he was at the top, he saw skid marks on the track. He left the bloody handbrake on.

went down to nowra one day both me and a mate got stuck in the same creek 50m apart his being lighter we winched him out first only to find out the hand winch handle was at home had to use a spark plug socket on a 12inch bar now that is work got my new lecky winch the next day and all was carry the remote straps and any thing else i can think of and it does not leave the car