I got to thinking about something...

[Plumber101010]

I've done the sideway things once myself. Was travelling with a 28 foot travel trailer behind me going up a skinny narrow mountain road. One of the dumber things I've done no doubt, but everybody and their mother and brother telling me not to do it that it couldn't be done was nothing but motivation to make me want to do it more! Plus I like pushing my boundaries. My kids own a house way up high at the very top and I was going to stay with them for a few weeks so to me there was no option. After making it 15 some odd miles up and through some very tricky terrain with loops and turns and tight curves I made it all the way until the last turn into their driveway! It was just too long and the trailer slid into a ditch!

It was the one and only time I ever used my M12000! Pulled the cable all the way out and then backwards from the roller fair lead while walking out at a 45° angle about 50', put up a snatch block and connected it with the trailer about midway.

Worked like a charm and yanked the entire thing right out.... and just about the time it was freed up my cable snapped and took off at 1,000,000 miles an hour! Of course I was already preparing for such an event in fact every time I have ever winched in my life I am preparing for the cable to snap, so all safety precautions were put in place.

To this day people underestimate the force of a cable snapping Under Pressure and put themselves in a life and death situation without thinking!

I saw a video once of a big truck in Russia that had a C channel welded from the front to the back for the sole purpose of having a place to put the cable while winching backwards. I'm still dying to do that one day but it was easier to me to put on a rear winch lol,

 

[Plumber101010]

Do you even carry a Hi Lift jack? Probably handle 90% of your off road issues... providing you have a spot on the 'van' to jack from.

just a thought...

I'm one of those guys that has absolutely every single toy you can think of for recovery. Two airbags, high lift Jack, 14k pull pal, you name it I probably have it, while simultaneously having never used it.... half dozen snatch blocks, 500 foot of extra cable, I have it all! I mean all!

25k invested in recovery gear and the last two times I got stuck I put on one of those $30 rubber block set that straps around the wheel and and goes on top of the tire and climbed right out of it LOL!!!

 

[Plumber101010]

hitches?

Of course since you are talking about a two

 

[hj 60]

I used a portable winch before I had the front bumper Warn.
Still like how it can be used to reverse or sideways, but it is more work to set up and carry, and the battery does not charge so that goes out pretty fast.
And you can not winch and sit in the car.

14 years ago and needed a friend with Deutz fahr tractor to solve it properly.

pulling about 1800 kilograms and ready to snap but lasted, just not enough power:

and here stuck again, but no way to winch because of water in front, when the landcruiser was finally on track I had to tow a trailer full of wood back to the towing hitch;

So only getting out with lifting up and put tree under the wheels, tried to winch but tree is next to road so rollers snapped off sideways, cable broke, way to go: