Champion V's Winchmax

[jenkotvr]

Does any of you use/own one of these winches (Winchmax apparently is made on the same line as superwinch) :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELECTRIC-WINCH-13000lb-1...

Looks right money. I'm after one to pull my boat up the drive and into the garage. The boat and trailer is 1000kg but the driveway is quite steep....hence the extra power needed.

I've also been looking at this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Champion-C12000-EWX-12v-...

What would you recommend?
Cheers

Edited by jenkotvr on Wednesday 21st September 17:25

[normalbloke]

Your boat may weigh 1000kg but it is a rolling load. That winch is massively overkill, which I suppose is better than the other way around!

[eltax91]

The second one is the newer version of the winch fitted to my 90. It'll haul the rolling load of your boat no stress! It finally broke on me when my brother was trying to rescue the disco in the predicament picture below. Silly bugger thought it was a good idea to reverse the truck whilst I was running the winch. It slipped, and has been on the workbench since.

[jenkotvr]

Yeah I'd rather it be overkill; The thought of it failing or worse the wire snapping would be a catastrophy.

I need to think of a backup rope really just in case it did fail for whatever reason.

Cracking picture BTW

Can I ask, will they run off of a large car battery? I see under load they draw 450+ amps... that would flatter any battery quick sharp I'd imagine

Edited by jenkotvr on Wednesday 21st September 21:51

[eltax91]

I'm not sure of the answer to your question to be honest. Mine runs off the 90's standard battery, but of course only when the engine is running. For your application, personally I would be tempted with a really strong anchor in the garage wall and a hand winch. Use a pulley and stop at the anchor point to run the rope from and back to your boat. This gives you the mechanical advantage of double the lever of the winch, and its portable too for use with the car.

[jenkotvr]

The only option I have is to bolt to the floor and wanted an electric winch so I don't have to mess about when I get home.

I need some expert advice really on the best way to anchor it down.
Only option I can think of is Rawl bolt one of the winch plates into the floor; put 2 steel post sunk also into the concrete in front of the plate to act as a safety barrier.

No option of failure

Thanks for help anyway bud

[PugwasHDJ80]

A quick calculation for you:

Total weight of "vehicle": 2,200lb (add 20% margin): 2,640lb

Multiply by degree of slope (say 20degrees - steeper than one in 3)- 52,800

divide the whole lot by 60 (its part of the load calculation- not going to explain why here though)- =880

multiply by ground effect multiplier- for pavement roughly 3 times

you need a winch that can pull 2,640lb

double it just so the winch isn't pulling near its load maximum (and it pulls nice and fast without too much battery drain)

and you get up to a 5000lb winch

personally i'd go for something like this: http://www.winches-uk.co.uk/product/379688/

[jenkotvr]

I would be happier to go for the bigger winch purely for the safety factor.

Looks a good site.

Sounds good though that I can get away with a 2 ton winch.