An Electric Winch Is A Wise Choice

The first question to answer is, do I need a winch? I’d venture to guess that over 50% of the winches sold on Hummer H1’s have never been used. I’ll bet the majority of owners don’t even know if they work. One of the first rules of 4 wheeling is don’t go out alone. If you’re going out to play you should have at least one other H1 with you and carry extraction equipment including a heavy duty pull strap. If you’re really stuck like sunk in the mud it can easily take 2 or 3 H1’s to pull you out. Ask me how I know. A electric winch most likely won’t help. Most of the time when you ‘re pulling someone out it’s far better to use a tow strap instead of a electric winch. There’s no substiture for the raw pulling power of a Hummer.

The biggest consideration for me was the factory Warn electric winch sticking out so far in front of the truck. Whenever I was out wheeling the electric winch was always getting in the way. Out in Moab I was always scraping the front of the electric warn vantage vs provantage on steep approach angle climbs.

Travel with another vehicle. This one should go without saying; it’s just downright foolish to go out in to remote areas by yourself without any other rigs along with you. What if your rig gets disabled and you have no cell coverage? Worse yet, what happens if you get hurt?

Your navigational chart states that your anchoring spot has a depth of 18 feet. You will anchor for two days. The tide tables indicate the consecutive high tides over those two days to be 5 feet, 7 feet, 6.5 feet and 9 feet above low tide. How long should you make your trip line?

The generic BBQ pit bracket allows you to mount many different types of BBQ pits that are available at The Home Depot, Loews, or your local home improvement store. This bracket is pre-drilled, and comes with the mounting hardware that installs in minutes. Once the bracket has been mounted to your pit electric winch you can handle burgers dogs and steaks anyplace anytime. This is the perfect tailgating accessory.

Smaller sailboats, like dinghies, often have a downhaul line–a short piece of line attached beneath the forward end of the boom–for mainsail luff adjustment. The dinghy sailor pulls down on the downhaul line to tension best winch the luff of the mainsail.

When you do a check out, make sure you go through each item and test it. If it does not work, make sure they fix it or give you another boat. Again, always make sure there are other boats, unless you completely trust the chartering company to deliver the boat you agreed upon. Be careful and thorough as it often takes a few days to notice the problems. We did not have steaming lights, anchor lights, deck lights, cockpit lights, stove was not lighting properly, GPS was useless, inverter worked haphazardly, refrigerator not working, get a sailing guide, one water tank cracked, water tank and gas tank gauges not working. The gauges alone could have saved us over $120 in gas and water we did not need.

You can drill and bolt or weld attachments to the bracket and they are ready to be used with any standard class 3, 4, or 5 receiver hitch using Hitchet.