Thread: Winch at ALDI - $599

Originally Posted by MickG

I have had my hand winch for years now and have also had the winch hole in the front of the bull bar for years also as I could not justify fitting a winch costing upwards of $1000. But in the last year or so these other winches have appeared on my radar and as I like to play reasonably hard with our club. I can see real value in an electric winch for $600 and still have my hand winch as back up.......as mentioned before, it will not be used weekly, monthly or even 6 monthly perhaps, but when it is called upon, I can very easily see the $600 being justified straight away

Agree .. if you have all the ancillaries in place they start to make sense at $600.

Originally Posted by Greylandy

Hou jou broek aan ou maat ... en moenie my kak gee oor waar ek bly nie .. ek het 8 jaar lank op 'n plaas gewerk so ek het 'n goeie idee van wat gebruik word op 'n plaas. Dink voor jy tik .. jy weet nie wie aan die anderkant sit nie boet!!

Calm down thrasher ... the comment was a joke as per the smily face at the end of it!! I'm sure you use "all your equipment on the farm" but this is not the Farmers Weekly forum. We are discussing 4WD equipment used for that purpose and the pros and cons of a cheap electric winch. I proposed the handwinch as an alternative to a cheap elec. winch for "somebody that rarely need one or doesn't do extreme 4wding" .. like the people you were talking about in your previous post .. hence the reason why I quoted your post .. and started my post with "if it only gets used on the rare occasion" Read before you blast brew!

why don't you read neck injury[broken neck ] so obvisiosly i can not use a hand winch anymore and yes this is not farmers weekly well don't know what type of farm you worked on in south africa but where iam my vechicle prity much stays in low range constantly,my hand winch use to be used almost everyday my 265/75/16 Mickey Thompsons MTZ get used alot i dont know how you use your 4x4 but to me all of this is talking 4x4 equipment
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And if i am not mistaken you quite hot under the collar when somebody insulted on a G4 thread a little while ago so don't start telling me to read before i blast brew/enough a enough we have hijacked ian thread [nie afrikaans praat met ek,ek is a engels suid afrikan ek nie verstan dit goed] it took me about 10 min to try remember what i was taught at school but got it in the end

Originally Posted by disco_thrasher

... i dont know how you use your 4x4 ...

Cafe cruising Defender!

Yup, apologies Ian .. back to the topic at hand.

Originally Posted by Greylandy

Cafe cruising Defender!

PMSL

At the restaurant at the end of the universe.

Originally Posted by dobbo

PMSL

At the restaurant at the end of the universe.

I prefer the Big Bang Burger Bar!

Originally Posted by mikecmb

I have never had a winch and never needed one and i do get around a bit. Then I dont go looking for trouble either, but I do have a ARB winch bar on the disco which leaves a few holes that whistle a bit in the wind. So I was thinking of filling those holes with a cheap winch that may get used one day.

Lately I have bought a few things on e-bay made in China including a set of HID lights for my KTM. They were very cheap and i was surprised to find that they were also very good quality.

I would like to hear a report from someone who has bought one of these cheap winches. I see Repco are now selling the same ones that are on ebay and are charging around $600 more.

MIKE

I have one on my Disco, for about 2 years now, I have only used mine twice, both times just to put some tension on the rope, winched up an incline with no problems, dismantled it when I purchased it and cleaned out the crap that the Chinese call Grease, the gears and plates aren't real flash but look sevicable, the collar that holds the In/Out clutch lever is only pressed in and it fell out on mine, I welded it back in. I used good quality marine grade grease and packed it in tight, I am not confident that the gears would last forever, but it should get you out of trouble, esp. if you use 2 snatch blocks to halve the load on the winch.
The Aldi winches look to be the same as mine, except I have 28M of 11mm cable, same hp and gear ratio, the warranty is for 3 years and Aldi's idea of a warranty is give them the broken winch and they will give you another one, no help if it busts in the bush, but then neither is a broken Warn or Thomas and I've heard some horror stories about them as well, It's up to the individual, but if like anything else if you dont flog it and maintain it properly it should do the job, Regards Frank.

I would be careful with the wire rope that comes with these winches. A 9mm wire rope is not really strong enough for a 9000lb winch, let alone a 12,000lb one.