Monday, Oct 17, 2005 at 13:02
G'day mate,
I'd be surprised if you could fit a winch to the standard alloy bullbar, despite what another reply (above) has already said. I'm not saying it can't be done; but I'd be extremely wary of actually USING a winch that had been bolted onto a bar that was not designed for a winch.
The forces involved in a winching operation when a vehicle is stuck in sand or mud are very significant. Forget the vehicle's GVM when calculating the load......you may have a vehicle that tips the scales at 2.5 or 3 tonne, but add to that the resistence of the sand/mud/
hill etc and the load can potentially be doubled.
I for one, would not wish to be around when a significant load was applied by the winch if it is mounted on a bar that was not welded up for the pulling effect (away from the vehicle). Bear in mind that the alloy bar has been engineered to assist defray the damage caused by wandering stock etc hitting the front of the vehicle......I would venture to say that if an engineer was designing the bar to act as the intermediate part between the vehicle and a large load on a winch cable, he would be adding strengthening gussets etc that would not otherwise be necessary.
Cheers
Roachie
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