Medic-5150 previously posted:
"We rewound the cable today. It's incredibly fast. Seems like it's a great winch, we'll see how the durability goes."
Andrew had said that this winch had one of the slower line in speeds. Well, I would disagree as this thing is faster than either of my Warns...it is about as fast as you want a winch to be without being too fast.
I already wish I had one of these on my heap instead of the 8k and 9k I have now....Oh well...
Price is a steal at $400. I would have guessed at least $600-700. Looks very stout, too. (Is stout, too. I must have moved it 20 times at least, 10 from the floor to the work bench...)
As far as the durability, SmittyBuilt found itself having problems a while back trying to compete in a market that they were getting pushed out of. They re vamped just about all of their products, getting rid of the cheese roll bars (remember the triple chrome deals with the light bars?), the cheese bumpers (remember the double tube 2.5-3" bumpers that ended up rusting out in a year?), and stepped up the quality of all of their products, making 'real world' stuff designed to work well instead of shine.
All of their products are now comparable to anything else on the market, quality wise, simply because they have to be to be competitive. I would say the winches are probably a small step below Warns top of the line or Mile Markers, but will last for years and years. Steve (SCRubicon) has both a SmittyBuilt bumper and winch on his rig and has been very happy with them. Good choice and great bang for the buck...
Andrew's (Medic 5150) Winch Install
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