feed back regarding winch
Submitted: Thursday, Jun 07, 2007 at 17:12
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Hi there just found a winch for sale in trading post 1200lb
water proof, 1 year warranty, wireless remote, 6.6hp motor, auto overload cut of switch,and fairlead rollers, they just asking $639.sounds o right for the price.
has any one purches one and what do you know about it?
thanks
mark
Reply By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Saturday, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:11
Saturday, Jun 09, 2007 at 10:11
You can guess it is a chinese winch from one of the factories making them these days and imported by one of the myriad companies and individuals doing that.
Some of those are the brand names like Ironman and some of the big name stores - including Aldi. In my experience they all look pretty much the same - in fact they are clearly rip-offs of the traditional brands.
Potentially the big brands put in additional quality control procedures, but if they do, they are in the chinese factories because they come with packaging unopened from China in my experience.
I have heard a couple of horror stories - parts fitted back to front, etc, and gear failure, but then even the major brands have failures. There are heaps of these out there.
In my case I have had a 12000lb Chinese Winch for about 2 years - it has been out in the wild all it's life, and has been used in anger to retrieve other folks a few times, but generally it is used for gardening and arborism. I pulled it down a few months ago, and everything looked fine - replaced a rusty screw in the solenoid housing, and tidied up a bit of rust on one of the terminals, but inside everything was fine and went back together and worked fine too. I have never had a problem with it.
I hope that helps
Andrew.
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