Winch to ARB winch bar.

**trout1105** · 29th June 2022, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yes. Arb bar and a std footprint winch will bolt straight up with the offset hawse.

The bar is only rated for 9,500lb so no need to go higher.

Winches are rated at their highest rate of pull eg when pulling on the first wrap of rope..
If you are only using the fist 10 to 15m on a a 30m rope you wont have anywhere near the maximum rate available from the winch.
The 12000lb winch worked perfectly on my D2a and did NO damage whatsoever even with a double line pull

**d2dave** · 2nd July 2022, 09:38 AM

When I was looking at the winch I wanted I rang ARB and asked if the 20,000 pound would fit. They said no only the 10,000.

After a bit of research it turns out the 10,000 and 12,000 are identical in size.

Turns out as tombie said, the bar is not rated to 12,000. I got a 12,000 anyway.

And even if you get a 10,000 and do a double line pull and if you were on the last row of the drum you effectively have a 20,000 pound pull.

**trout1105** · 2nd July 2022, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by d2dave

When I was looking at the winch I wanted I rang ARB and asked if the 20,000 pound would fit. They said no only the 10,000.

After a bit of research it turns out the 10,000 and 12,000 are identical in size.

Turns out as tombie said, the bar is not rated to 12,000. I got a 12,000 anyway.

And even if you get a 10,000 and do a double line pull and if you were on the last row of the drum you effectively have a 20,000 pound pull.

The D2 weighs in at about 4500lb and the ARB bar is rated for 9500lb.
You will drag the D2 along the ground or lift it off the ground before you exceed the 9500lb rating

**V8Ian** · 3rd July 2022, 08:58 AM

Winching a D2 out of mud can easily need more than 9500lb of effort.

**trout1105** · 3rd July 2022, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Winching a D2 out of mud can easily need more than 9500lb of effort.

This is why we carry maxtrac's and learn how to use them

I fitted the 12000lb winch so that I didn't have to pull most of the rope of it to get enough "Grunt" to effect a recovery or pull out stumps etc.
Even pulling on the third layer gave me 8000lb of pull

I find the biggest PITA ater using the winch is feeding the rope back onto it afterward, The less I had to do of this the better

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