drew303

anyone know of any discussions on the new TG8000. any idea who the real mfg is? it looks like a Warn surprisingly.

drew303

http://www.trail-gear.com/tg8000-winch

OK scratch the warn comparison, it was the weird cap on the end that warns newer 9.5xp has

drew303

bumpbump

Drunner

I seen it a while ago and if I remember it right I think it looks like a smittybilt. I will have to go look it up now

rattlewagon

Saw that on their site the other day... Its still pretty new, might be a bit before the reviews come back. Looks like another re-badged winch to me, Like a HF badlands winch.

MaK92-4RnR

All winches seem like they're all the same nowadays.

I rock an XRC8 and it works flawlessly. I've heard great things about the HF winch too. WARNs are way overpriced. Personally, if i were to do a winch again. I'd go with a harbor freight one.

rattlewagon

But where do you get parts if it breaks? Or do you just toss it and get a new one.

MaK92-4RnR

The harbor freight one?

drew303

Warn isn't really overpriced they last a lifetime you get what you pay for

MaK92-4RnR

Who knows. Im happy with my Smittybuilt. Got to use it to pull out an FZJ80 the other day, and it worked flawlessly.

MudHippy

9000 LB(IP-66) sold at Harbor Freight


They don't have an 8000 LB winch at Harbor Freight anymore.

drew303

nice catch mudhippy! not.surprised to see its rebranded chinesr

MudHippy

Just found another one that looks almost exactly like those too. The 9500 LB IRONMAN 4X4 MONSTER Winch. There's also a 12000 LB that's similar looking(and nearly identical to the BADLAND WINCHES™ 12000 LB).


You can buy them both from trdparts4u.com.
http://www.trdparts4u.com/scripts/pr...dProduct=-9169

drew303

a Chinese mfg is laughing all the way to the bank right now living high on Americas ignorance

tazz76

They did a article on the bandlands winches in peterson 4x4 they r designed off a smittybuilt i think was the winch manufacter butdont qoute me on it they tested them and was really surprised how good they were

ThatGuy1295

My harbor frieght winch is agonizingly slow compared to other winches.

MudHippy

Here's one more...just for kicks.

http://truckandwinch.com/tuff-stuff-...0-b-winch.html

drew303

I wonder what's different from the 8k to the 12.5k..???

rattlewagon

About 4.5k pounds. Haha.

Probably just the gearing.

drew303

Probably nothing .... they're probably all the same winch with BS ratings.