Awesome write-up! 1/4 lamb has been earmarked for the Dusy brethren/women in NV! Dusy and Ershim are great names! lol. I gotta say, your wife was definitely a super-trooper! Lets just say my wife was stunned that you lived to tell the story!
Which is why I'm having some of the 4x4labs interior storage fabbed up to slap in there. It won't be hard to get things out of the fridge though. It's easier than going through the back with the dual swing outs. I'm not super high though. Only 3" and 35s.
I have steel and don't think they are too heavy. Took me a couple hours to install both. Just a word of caution, the gasket is the toughest part and I used a bike tire iron (little plastic one) to spare my fingers. Have fun! It's a good little project.
Just installed my wings! Super simple install that my teenage son could do, so we did it together in my messy garage (big house project I haven't cleaned up yet and getting home from Rubicon and camping...). These things are awesome! Can't say enough good about the excellent build quality from...
You might find the manual helpful. The pull out knob is the clutch release and you need to pull it out to allow the drum to reverse so you can unspool rope/cable. You can download a pdf from warn (link).
http://www.warn.com/truck/winches/pdf/38292D7_rs.pdf...