Thread: help with a winch install

now that youve all saved yourself a fortune in winch outlay some of the savings to proctect it a bit.

Go buy a snatch block and set it up on the cable, make a mount for it on the bull bar so its on there permantly.

get a winch extension rope or strap thats half the length of your existing winch cable and some shackles, a couple of pairs of gloves and a bag to carry it in.

IVe seen 1 aldi winch on fire, 1 broken after the event which was guessed at being stripped internal gears and 1 with a busted drum. From all accounts they were worked near or beyond the limits except for the busted drum which some idiot decided that he would use as a tow rope.

if your permanantly set up for 2:1 and have an extension cable to get back to the original reach your laughing so long as you dont try to then pull your new potential maximum pull. Apart from everything else its easier on you also gain some flexability in what you can set yourself up to do IF you absolutely have to.

Me I'll pay the same money and get another tirfor with all the trimmings. but Im sick like that....


as for where they are made its like sidcrome, king chrome and supertool. most of them all come from the same place but its the quality control that determins where they get sent to... assuming for a second that Sidchrome is best folowed by kingchrome then supertool a spanner that has a nick in the handle might not pass a sidchrome test but will pass the kingchrome test that same spanner might fail the kingchrome test becaust the jaws of the spanner are out of parallel by .5 degrees but that might be acceptable for supertool standards. Add a brand stamp and one cast can make 3 companies spanners. The Eliteist brands still make their own and in this example that would be someone like Snapon.

I have had many winches before of different types.
If you are serious a PTO winch is hard to beat.
For occasional use I have planed for it the Aldi should do.
The current Aldis are different from the earlier ones.
Time will tell.
I intend to give it the berrys in its first year whisle still under warrantly and keep the box it came in so if it fails I can return it.
On the road into the family property after any sort of wind it is a chain saw job to clear fallen trees and use the winch with direction change snatch blocks to clear the logs off the road.
For the money involved and the warrantly all good stuff for my intended uses.
Time will tell.

so a year on and hows the Aldi's been?