Rammbo20

Am willing to pay small amount for good conditioned wench for Toyota Tacoma pickup for offroading

waskillywabbit

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You and everybody else on here who doesn't have a winch!

Flamedx4

WInch, not WEnch!! ;-)

Rammbo20

Wow thanks for the great help!

DavidA

I would pay decent money a good condition WENCH. LOL!

waskillywabbit

iTrader: (-1)

They are hard to find and even harder to get! Try 4wheelparts.com as they run specials on winches with free shippping!

Welcome to the boards noob!

You should look up ravencr and Doc279 as they are both up in Maryville, TN.

Flamedx4

There's used ones on ebay a lot and in local papers occasionally, but I don't think I'd pay good money for one I couldn't see and try beforehand. You can buy the cheap Ramsey or MileMarker unit for under $400, they sell that same one at Harbor Freight for $329, and use it till it dies (which may be never - depends on how often you use it.) and by then maybe you can afford a good one. A few places are selling off the last of the Warn M8000 pretty cheap - I've seen $449. That's hard to beat! The new Warn-made Magnum 9000 is on sale all over for around $500 with a roller fairlead - that's hard to beat too.

Rammbo20

Great thank you for you info. Yeah I just don't plan on needing to use the thing much where as I normally don't get stuck so I did'nt want to pay a lot for it.

AKennedy87

If you arent goign to need it much than get a tow strap and a buddy, things are pretty expensive.

Look on ebay too.

Rammbo20

Good deal thanks.

bamachem

or just get a few tow straps and a come-a-long.

Doc279

Rammbo20 - I wheel all the time and do not have a winch - neither does
Ravencr - we both live in Maryville and wheel mainly at Tellico. Ravencr
does some crazy stuff with his 4 runner and has not added the winch.
I second the motion concerning the tow strap and a buddy - do not wheel alone !!! That is just asking for TROUBLE ! Welcome to the board !
Doc

Rammbo20

Yeah I'm kinda narrowing the winch idea out. I just basically wanted the security of if I did get stuck I would'nt have to pay a hefty tow truck bill if they would even try. Thanks for the input and will have to ride together sometime my buddy has close to 45 acres out in Madisonville I ride on.

934rnr

Probably good to have a electric winch ,a 3 ton come along hand winch and a high lift because electric winches do fail too. I have a 3 ton come along hand winch and a high-lift.
I have used a come along hand winch with a strap off a tree before it's a PITA but we got out of being stuck in 2' of snow that way.

Scarbro22

Would those cheap come alongs that are always on ebay be a good idea? They look pretty cheap and dangerous to me. If no then waht come along??

AKennedy87

Haha the night i got my truck i wheeled alone, in a cornfield near UMass Amherst. It rained all day and my BS auto hubs didnt work, i got 50 feet and sunk. I'll never wheel alone again. Had to go back in the AM and pull it out with a Grand Cherokee.

But my biggest beef with people are when they buy brand new huge silverados etc and wont help a kid out with an 87 4Runner stuck in the mud. Some kid at this farmhouse party I was at had one and refused to use it. I hate people like that.

foxtrapper

Since you want to go cheap, don't plan on using much at all, and don't want to be able to pull your rig up into a tree, might I suggest the cheapo $49 electric harbor Freight special? I've got one, and it works pretty darn well as a "booster". It's not going to get you out of a mud hole on its own, but it's done well by my 2x4 at helping me get out of problems where I didn't have enough traction to do it with the engine alone.

Rammbo20

Yeah I'll have to check those out. thanks.