Thread: Jeep Winch

Originally Posted by B.S.F.

A 3/16" wire rope has a breaking strength of about 4000 lbs.
A Land Rover capstan winch is limited to about 2500 lbs. Any comments ?
.W.

Okay I'll bite, the working load rating is 1/5 of breaking strain so 800lbs, but that might be all one needs to get out of trouble, say cross axled over tyre ruts, so a lot of the time a capstan winch would suffice. Different story if bogged to the roof racks in mud.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

It's a camping, washing line.

Too low for anything but his jocks ................. which he must need to wash often due to the constant trouble (aka bog) he'd get into driving the Jeep

Well he's only running highway tyres, so the worst he's probably gonna get stuck is on a slippery lawn at the local park.

If it’s Dyneema it’s good for 5t.
And like many here, probability is there’s a huge set of swampers in the garage for play days.

Despite the theories of capacity, materials or uses, that fairlead won't last very long at all and neither would whatever rope it is if the pull has any angle whatsoever.