Go with the genuine Hi-Lift brand jack if you have the time to make a choice. They're the only ones made in the USA (Bloomfield, IN, one of my old hometowns). I have an off-brand imported jack, which works but I just don't trust it like a Hi-Lift.
On the other hand, these jacks can be pretty dangerous, even in the right hands. You've been warned to be cautious. Using them for a winch is tedious, but a little less dangerous. I will note that unless you have straight bumpers like on a FJ40 or FJ55, you'll have a hard time getting a hookup point to use it as a jack. They do make adapters to deal with this, so something to consider. Often you get stuck where there's no nearby anchor to use it as a come-along, so you need to lift and stack rocks, etc underneath to get unstuck, so think about it before you need it.
I keep a good heavy-duty come-along in the truck. Doesn't need to be the fancy stuff if it's not your primary recovery gear IMO, because they're all designed to have the handle fail by bending if overloaded. This is intentional, but some folks take it as a weakness. Better a soft failure, than a sudden one is the idea.
With a winch, it's a last ditch method for that sort of thing for me. I have had cases when doing recoveries where I needed to tie off the vehicle on the uphill side to prevent rollover or body damage when pulling from another direction to get unstuck. Basically, use the come-along to tie it off, then you can take up slack carefully as the stuck vehicle moves.
Around camp, handy to hang a carcass if you a hunter. Normally, you don't want to use them overhead, but if you have a good skyhook, they're all adequate with a little care to pick up most everything you could bag in North America. Sure wish I hadn't left mine at home the last time dad and I got a roadkill deer on the highway down home...
My Hi-Lift has rescued me multiple times, and lots of other folks. The ability to move a few tons of truck even only a foot or two is often all that is needed.
