The winch that Harbor Freight sells, Bad Lands Winch, have a pretty good review. I have a 3500# that works good and my father has a 12000# one on his trailer and loves it.
The winch that Harbor Freight sells, Bad Lands Winch, have a pretty good review. I have a 3500# that works good and my father has a 12000# one on his trailer and loves it.
On amazon you can get a 3500 puns super winch "Tera winch" for about 190.
With winches you get what you pay for. I hate being stuck, if ok stuck I'm done having fun. The winch is the most important peice of recovery equipment you carry.
Light
Steel gears (harbor freight has plastic)
Low amp daw
Fast line speed
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003COTFS4
Is a warn winch better? Probbanaly. But the Tera winch will drag me out of anything just like the super winch. Get the super winch Tera winch, and upgrade to an optima battery. You will be berry happy
UPGRADE BATTERIES TOO SO YOU DON'T BURN YOU WINCH UP!!!
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I just trashed a Harbor Freight winch. No more of those. Anyone use a Champion 4500 (about 35lbs)? Good reports on these.
Last edited by shot410ga; 02-25-2014 at 03:29 PM.
I have had a harbor freight winch and found that if it is on of the old models,they do have bad reviews. The new badland winches have had very good reviews and even received a award from 4x4 magazine for being a very strong very rugged winch this year.(2013) not 2014. So they have improved. I burned up one of the old style harbor freights the first year I used it just by plowing the snow on my quad I had at the time,but I had a warranty on it and took it back and they gave me a new model and man what a difference it made.So I would not turn your nose up on harbor freight just yet, I would give the badlands winch a try and see how you like it. I think you will be surprised how they changed a lot. I am very happy with the performance it has shown me every time I have got my self stuck. You just might be surprised. This is just my opinion.
UJ the DisabledSportsman
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