I want to be able to pull myself out of anything....

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the toughest part of winching is knowing how and what to do and how much to shovel first, you can hang a truck in deep mud and heavy wet snow and you will just break stuff. so best to know your limits, might be esirer to lift it up a cliff than out of some mud or snow, cheers, Larry
 
If money is no object buy a new 8274 and contact gigglepin.com and buy their brake upgrade and all their other little amazing upgrades, then extend the drum and put 200 feet of your choice of cable or rope (i prefer rope). If using rope then have the drum extended and decrease the diameter of the drum to 1.5 inch solid shaft. The rating on the 8274 is 8000 pounds, I am told it is a 10,000 pound winch but derated, it's 16000 if snatched.

If you decrease the drum diameter by half the pull on the first wrap should be 16000, use a snatch block and you have 32,000 pounds. It has a mechanical brake on it - if you have to do something retarded like pull your truck straight up you will want to do it with something that has a mechanical brake like the 8274. You can even twin motor it and upgrade the motors as well, lower the gearing too for faster lines speeds or more pull.

Have fun!

Check out my video on youtube of my modified 8274, nothing special but my truck is in clay to the bumper, with 36x13's on a straight line pull, I'd estimate that I am exceeding 10,000 pounds on that pull.

I've always thought these were neat winches, but I never knew you could modify them like that. With all of that winch line you could snatch block just about any pull and virtually never have to worry about weight. I'm keeping my eye out for a used one and I'd like to make it fit into the ARB on the 80. It blocks some of the radiator, but I've seen a few people do it.
 
Front & Rear Winch

I would install a rear winch in my 80.

Mounted a Warn Military 9000 in the rear.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/winching-recovery/341179-warn-military-9000-wiring-questions.html

Cheers,

LandCrusher80
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