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Last Memorial Day weekend, we went for a little exploration drive from our camp. Beautiful little double-track off the main road. Just our friends and us in the Troopy. Ended up in this nice meadow, with a bit of standing water and the next thing I knew we were buried to the axles.
We had a shovel, a high-lift and a limb saw....4-hours later we finally got out of the mud-hole. And I immediately started looking for a winch.
Found a basket-case 8274 on an auction site and 'won' it for about $160. It needed a new solenoid or two and a new solenoid cover, plus the controller had seen better days.
I sat in the corner until March and finally found time to start modifying my bumper to get it installed. I sent a .dxf of the winch plate off my 45 to OSHCut and got a mounting plate cut by them. Pretty sweet service and easy to use.
Took my homemade bumper off and cut the frame-horns off as well as my high-lift mount and light-bar protection hoop. Had to move the light and make some brackets to remount it.
Cut a hole for the winch line/fairlead and for some long shackle mounts to go through the tubing. cut the holes with a skinny-wheel, then cleaned them up on a manual mill we've got at work.
We had a shovel, a high-lift and a limb saw....4-hours later we finally got out of the mud-hole. And I immediately started looking for a winch.
Found a basket-case 8274 on an auction site and 'won' it for about $160. It needed a new solenoid or two and a new solenoid cover, plus the controller had seen better days.
I sat in the corner until March and finally found time to start modifying my bumper to get it installed. I sent a .dxf of the winch plate off my 45 to OSHCut and got a mounting plate cut by them. Pretty sweet service and easy to use.
Took my homemade bumper off and cut the frame-horns off as well as my high-lift mount and light-bar protection hoop. Had to move the light and make some brackets to remount it.
Cut a hole for the winch line/fairlead and for some long shackle mounts to go through the tubing. cut the holes with a skinny-wheel, then cleaned them up on a manual mill we've got at work.