winch

[Beastmaster]

Hehe...you've hit on one of the more debated questions out there.

Bang for the buck - Many people agree that the MileMarker E12000 winch gives one of the best bangs for the buck. It's 12000lb capacity and it's light weight makes it a very good choice.

Approach angle - There's two mounting methods that won't detract from the angle (much).

1) The stock MileMarker HMMWV/H1 mounting kit. This will keep nearly all of the approach angle.
2) Make a custom front bumper receiver mount. With front bumpers going for 50 bucks on EBay, you can make your own receiver mount for pretty cheap...far less than the stock Milemarker variant.

Now, I can say one thing about electric. You better have a really good method of disabling the solenoid box. There has been reports (in the general 4x4 world, Hummers included) of vandalism where someone freespools the winch line out, attaches it to something immovable, (rear bumper comes to mind), and shorts out the solenoid box. This then activates the winch, and then it literally crunches anything in the cable path.

Hence my logic of using a removeable carrier type of winch.

Hope this helps,
Steve