N.L. Eckert wrote:

I've been using a Powerwinch 912 for the last 15 yrs. It has a single
line pull of 3500 lbs. and a double line pull of 6000 lbs. The block &
tackle for the double line pull is included as are all the electrical
lines. There is enough cable to run to the car/truck battery. In my
case, I have a F150 pickup and I run the cable back and keep it in the
cap out of the weather. I have the Powerwinch attached with shoulder
bolts on top of the winch stand. I only use the Power winch for
retrieving the boat, after I have the boat firmly on the trailer, I
unhook the Powerwinch and snug the bow up with the hand winch, then
remove the Powerwinch and store it in the truck, out of sight. Its easy
to load a boat with the powerwinch because you can use a lanyard to
operate it while you stand on the dock aligning the boat. I have a
roller type trailer, so I don't have to back down as far as one would
with bunkers. This arrangement is good also, because in case the
Powerwinch fails, you always have the handwinch backing it up. If
anyone is interested in seeing a pic of how I have the winchstand set
up, I'd be glad to take a pic and post it.

Happy boating
====
Norm


Thanks...I've "discovered" (d'oh) that my existing fulton winch has a
low range, which I have never used. I'll try that for a while. And there
are one or two manual winches larger than what I have...so I could
upgrade without going to electric.

My old tractor has a Warn electric winch on it. It's old and it still
works, and while I have not examined the Powerwinch brand, I wonder if
these truck, 4x4 and "tractor" winches are tougher than the boater
trailer winches. The guy who owned the tractor before me used the winch
to haul fallen trees and suchlike off the edges of his farm.

Harry Krause wrote:
N.L. Eckert wrote:


I've been using a Powerwinch 912 for the last 15 yrs. It has a single
line pull of 3500 lbs. and a double line pull of 6000 lbs. The block &
tackle for the double line pull is included as are all the electrical
lines. There is enough cable to run to the car/truck battery. In my
case, I have a F150 pickup and I run the cable back and keep it in the
cap out of the weather. I have the Powerwinch attached with shoulder
bolts on top of the winch stand. I only use the Power winch for
retrieving the boat, after I have the boat firmly on the trailer, I
unhook the Powerwinch and snug the bow up with the hand winch, then
remove the Powerwinch and store it in the truck, out of sight. Its easy
to load a boat with the powerwinch because you can use a lanyard to
operate it while you stand on the dock aligning the boat. I have a
roller type trailer, so I don't have to back down as far as one would
with bunkers. This arrangement is good also, because in case the
Powerwinch fails, you always have the handwinch backing it up. If
anyone is interested in seeing a pic of how I have the winchstand set
up, I'd be glad to take a pic and post it.

Happy boating
====
Norm



Thanks...I've "discovered" (d'oh) that my existing fulton winch has a
low range, which I have never used. I'll try that for a while. And there
are one or two manual winches larger than what I have...so I could
upgrade without going to electric.

My old tractor has a Warn electric winch on it. It's old and it still
works, and while I have not examined the Powerwinch brand, I wonder if
these truck, 4x4 and "tractor" winches are tougher than the boater
trailer winches. The guy who owned the tractor before me used the winch
to haul fallen trees and suchlike off the edges of his farm.


Now note mouseketeers!!! this is from a liar who claims to have owned
endless boats ALL his long sad uneducated life!!!! My grandkids know
about the winch ratios & how to best use them!!!!

Is it likely make your own mind up these are his own claims:-)

"Besides, I worked off and on in the boat business and inherited it when
he died. So, as I said,I'm knee-deep in boat heritage."


This is proof!!!! there is no boat he just trolls the net for stuff so
he can pretend he owns & knows, both of which are totally untrue!!!

K

K. Smith wrote:

My grandkids know
about the winch ratios & how to best use them!!!!


No doubt from having to haul away those dumpsters full of booze bottles
you emptied.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
K. Smith wrote:

My grandkids know
about the winch ratios & how to best use them!!!!


No doubt from having to haul away those dumpsters full of booze bottles
you emptied.


Her grandkids are pushing 40 years old...

Don White wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
K. Smith wrote:

My grandkids know
about the winch ratios & how to best use them!!!!


No doubt from having to haul away those dumpsters full of booze bottles
you emptied.


Her grandkids are pushing 40 years old...



Grandkids implies kids, which implies that at some time in her life,
there was a man, if not a husband. He probably hanged himself...

K. Smith,

Please get off of it, and simply kill file him.

It has been known, and proven for many years, that he is a liar and a fake.

Proof has given he has plagiarized photographs, lied about his (fantasy)
wife, cut-and-pasted words from the web to offer as his own, and does not
own ANY type of boat.

He is of obvious limited intelligence...please leave him to his own demise.

--
"Do or do not...there is no try"

Yoda- 1981

"K. Smith" wrote in message
...
Harry Krause wrote:
N.L. Eckert wrote:


I've been using a Powerwinch 912 for the last 15 yrs. It has a single
line pull of 3500 lbs. and a double line pull of 6000 lbs. The block &
tackle for the double line pull is included as are all the electrical
lines. There is enough cable to run to the car/truck battery. In my
case, I have a F150 pickup and I run the cable back and keep it in the
cap out of the weather. I have the Powerwinch attached with shoulder
bolts on top of the winch stand. I only use the Power winch for
retrieving the boat, after I have the boat firmly on the trailer, I
unhook the Powerwinch and snug the bow up with the hand winch, then
remove the Powerwinch and store it in the truck, out of sight. Its easy
to load a boat with the powerwinch because you can use a lanyard to
operate it while you stand on the dock aligning the boat. I have a
roller type trailer, so I don't have to back down as far as one would
with bunkers. This arrangement is good also, because in case the
Powerwinch fails, you always have the handwinch backing it up. If
anyone is interested in seeing a pic of how I have the winchstand set
up, I'd be glad to take a pic and post it.

Happy boating
====
Norm



Thanks...I've "discovered" (d'oh) that my existing fulton winch has a
low range, which I have never used. I'll try that for a while. And there
are one or two manual winches larger than what I have...so I could
upgrade without going to electric.

My old tractor has a Warn electric winch on it. It's old and it still
works, and while I have not examined the Powerwinch brand, I wonder if
these truck, 4x4 and "tractor" winches are tougher than the boater
trailer winches. The guy who owned the tractor before me used the winch
to haul fallen trees and suchlike off the edges of his farm.


Now note mouseketeers!!! this is from a liar who claims to have owned
endless boats ALL his long sad uneducated life!!!! My grandkids know
about the winch ratios & how to best use them!!!!

Is it likely make your own mind up these are his own claims:-)

"Besides, I worked off and on in the boat business and inherited it when
he died. So, as I said,I'm knee-deep in boat heritage."


This is proof!!!! there is no boat he just trolls the net for stuff so
he can pretend he owns & knows, both of which are totally untrue!!!

K

My old tractor has a Warn electric winch on it. It's old and it still
works, and while I have not examined the Powerwinch brand, I wonder if
these truck, 4x4 and "tractor" winches are tougher than the boater
trailer winches. The guy who owned the tractor before me used the winch
to haul fallen trees and suchlike off the edges of his farm.
==================================

My brother had one of those utility type winches. He got it thru
Grangers, I think. This was more of a light duty winch, tho. About
1500 lb. single line pull. It would have handled his 17 footer OK, but
he never hooked it up, so I can't say how it might have worked out.
But, it looked to me to be a well built unit. Powerwinch has a large
unit that is rated at 10,000 lbs double line pull. I haven't seen one
to these in the stores, I think you have to order them specially. Its
quite a bit more expensive than the 912 like I have.