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i have ordered a new trailer to haul my treasures on. it will be hauling and loading from 3100,s to 6400,s. so what would be a good brand of winch and what #,s of pull?
believe it or not but some of the stuf i have and find to haul home does not run and may be settled in the mudd a little. lol
thanks for the help.

I've been hauling junk cars for a couple of years now that scrap metal has been so high. I pull a 18' car hauler with a Warn 8274 double lined. I pull a lot of cars that don't have any wheels and some have the axles buried. Two things I can recommend are a good hot battery and a good bumper jack. The life of the winch is the battery and the double line helps that out and if you can get the axle out of the dirt(bumper jack) it will help the life of the battery as well. I mounted the winch as high as possible on my trailer to give the "lift" factor when pulling. Hope this helps. Btw, I've never went to get a vehicle and left without it!!

I have a Ramsey model RE-12000 (12,000 lb cap) mounted to the front of my 53 wrecker. As mkmiller stated, a good hot battery (or two for lots of amps) and a good snatch block for a double line will help you out. Check out www.awdirect.com .They have good products and they will stand behind them. Stay away from the cheap China junk.

If what you will be winching are rollers then a Superwinch 4500 should be more than adequate and does not weigh a ton as some of the heavier units do.

There are pics of the installation of my Superwinch 4000s on the following link. It is not a recover type winch but if it rolls it will pull it up with little effort.

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=17487588&uid=2902753

Houston54, nice set up. That trailer is low for easy loading and transporting. The deck of my flatbed is 4.5 feet high and can be a problem at times.

For what it's worth, a few years ago I got to the point where I was sick and tired of fighting with come-alongs so I treated my self to setting up my trailer right. here are a couple shots of my set up

It's a 9,000 lb Superwinch that I can mount on the front of the gooseneck with a receiver hitch I had my Mennonite welder neighbor install for me. Heaviest thing it's pulled up on the trailer is a dead '50 Mack pumper truck. She creaked and groaned, but she got it up on the trailer (I used the snatch block!).

Moving equipment for my Mennonite neighbors has more than paid for both the winch AND the trailer.

John