WARN 4000 DC 12V Utility Winch with Wire Rope - 4000 lb Pulling Capacity, 50' Galvanized Steel Cable, Roller Fairlead, Wired Remote - 94000 Portable 12 Volt Winch for UTV, ATV, Truck, Trailer

i read the directions, and you have to stretch and tight wrap the cable starting from 5 wraps, on spool. I used 6 ga wire from idling 14.6 volt battery 16 feet away to crane, and 6 ga wire to frame ground with additional ground cable to frame from battery. OE pickup wiring is not good enough for something like this. I haven't taken an amp reading sorry:( I stretched the cable by attaching winch to tree and having crane pull pick up to tree with brakes applied and it pulled very hard, but during free spool it still unwraps easy. I used it for at least 3hrs straight of heavy lifting and dumping. I bought a NATIONAL snatch block used for soft rope and it worked, but i cut the side off of the shiv. I found a quality superwinch brand snatch block at Runnings farm store, for 14.00. will use it from now on. During winching as the cable wraps up the gear ratio gets higher, making the pull harder. This is my first winch, and i should have bought one years ago, my back would be better, that is the sole reason i bought this in the first place, because i know several big strong guys that have done a lot of heavy work and also have had at least one back surgery. If you are thinking about moving heavy stuff and that a winch would take too much time, think about lifting 10lbs or less for 6 months while vertebrae heal from three surgeries. Just think about that, is a 100 dollar winch and a truck crane too much? The other thing to calculate if you don't have things is tackle for the winch, some choker chains, clevis', shackles or d rings. I had steel laying around and made a crane, and bought the beam, it was 60 inches long with a 4 ton jack positioned less than 12 inches from the pivot and i lifted at least 450 lbs with no problem, and i had odd angle drag/pulls (ruining snatchblock) that worked well starting from 1/2 spool ratio to full spool ratio and the motor rpm slowed maybe 10%? I have a tool bag to store it in. Lifted rider mower, snowblower, big block engines (425 455 OLDS), and trees. will buy again if it fails and i can't fix it. If the control fails one dpdt momentary toggle switch with furnace thermostat wire will take its place, for cheap and very durable repair. UPDATE 10-19-24 Had this at the shop, with a mount to the receiver hitch (pickup on a hoist). I picked up a 350 TBI with intake on it, it pulled 100-109 amps using inductive amp clamp this was cable water falling out opening, dragging very hard on the cable. The cable never frayed. Lifted 6 feet vertical. Have received many questions if this would work on a four wheeler. If a person used a group 26 or group 58 or larger (extra winch battery) and had a 5 amp alternator on four wheeler this would work, but remember to use a snatch block to increase load capacity of dead lift up a cliff, or out of suction from mud. A person could use a jumper pack battery to run it, just remember that cable size is the key. IF you hook it directly to a small atv battery and try to use it to capacity, it might melt the terminals right out of the battery. (Keep reading) I have worked on a golf cart now of my bosses and was able to easily find 12 volts to hook a winch to. I answered a question about this some time ago and said i thought you should be able to do this. You absolutely CAN put this on a (electric) golf cart. Just find 12v, use 4ga, 2ga. 1ga or larger cable. I loaned it to a friend and he tried to roll a vehicle into a building, (winch was bolted to the floor) and it would not do it. He was by himself and was not able to get it to jump ledge of floor. If you use it to load a car trailer with winch bolted to bed or very low on trailer, hook to REAR of car and pull onto trailer, and help push it. (This is not a 9000 pound winch.) The big mistake i have seen people do is hooking to the front of the car, with a front hook; when the car approaches the bed of the trailer and needs to jump a ledge, the suspension absorbs the torque and squats the car, making it very difficult to load. The car tires then bear into the edge of the bed and will not go on the trailer bed.......but you can help push it on by hand with a few people. If the winch is lifting (mounted about 3 or 4 feet above bed of trailer ) while pulling it will make more things possible. Using a snatch block will double pulling power. Hope this helps

This is my second one. The first was put was put on a special mount in the bed of my Polaris 570 three years ago for the purpose of getting deer into the back of it. (Polaris does not make a back of the vehicle winch for he 570) I have found many other uses for it. The second one just bought is mounted on the rail of my utility trailer for the purpose of getting heavy machinery on to the trailer. It connects to the truck with a connector originally used for a winch on by pontoon boat trailer. Both work great and the water proof connectors keep them working.

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The winch was a little more expensive than a harbor fright winch but man dose it perform. I pull a 83 ¾ ton out of the mud with it and 2 snatch blocks and have used it with 2 snatch block to load a dead 6500lb 4x4 Toyota tundra on my trailer. I'd buy a second one in a hart beat well worth the money and out performs the harbor freight 2k winch. We burned up 2 of the harbor freight 2k winches not even pushing em as hard as we push the warn 2k. One year update the switch on the remote went out for out function but easy fix auto parts store had the switch for under 10 bucks.

Purchased this winch to help load logs onto a trailer for firewood collection. It has worked very well for doing what I intended to use it for and has not failed me yet. I'm pulling 45-50' logs with an 14" diameter out of log piles without a problem. It seems very powerful and is a real back and time saver since I no longer have to cut the logs into manageable sizes. Drawbacks - 1. The control cable is only about 10' long. So while I can do things by myself I can't get to the back of the 16' trailer and still have control over the winch while loading. 2. the cable is starting to fray at points - most likely because I've tried pulling far more than the winch is rated at but something to consider. I think the cable should have been up-sized a little but again it's probably from me overloading it 3. Cable length - again i'm working with a 16' trailer - the 35' of cable they include does give me some extra length to get into the wood pile and beyond but a 50' would be ideal 4. cable tensioner - this is the part that is supposed to keep pressure on the cable that is on the winch drum. It is set with such low pressure that it does not help if you have the winch down to the last layer or two of cable. this means unless you try to keep pressure on it manually (which won't happen if your free-spooling) the cable will ultimately have to be pulled out completely and re-wound or you'll have to have someone else closer to the winch to keep it from getting bunched up. It's only a small piece of tin and can probably be bent to put more pressure on the drum but just something i've noticed with the first 40 or 50 uses of the unit.

My husband purchased this item with a specific plan in mind. It hauled his 768 lb moose onto the trailer. :-)

Great product from a reliable company.

I like it. Have not had a problem at all. Would like a nylon rope on it instead. It does everything i ask of it.