Transits and Winches

[Frank]

Has anyone on here ever fitted a self recovery winch to a transit?? if so can you explain the ins and outs / pros and cons????

 

Off the shelf or custom front bumper needed????

 

Muchos Gracious

[garth mc garth]

superwinch do a mounting kit for their husky winches. off the shelf part appparently as a local firm has them fitted to all of their transits

[madmatt]

look here http://pwsacc.co.uk/bumpers.htm

[Rod]

dont know about transits but its straight forward to fit one on a landrover just bolt it on and wire in.

 

if you get a kit for a transit it would be simmilar at a guess

 

only thing with a winch on the front is it cant pull you out backwards and normaly you tend to get stuck driving in forwards IMO

 

very handy thing none the less

[treewizard]

a tree company near me has a crewcab transit with a winch on it, they use it all the time.

he got it online and fitted it himself, so cant be that hard (not calling him thick or anything)

 

looks good to

[niftysteve]

ive seen a sherpa round here with winch on front and rear

[Will Hinchliffe]

You just tie an old rope to the rear wheel then tie it to the tree and get the transit to walk up the rope. Wont get you out of every where but does work in some situations.

[josharb87]

You just tie an old rope to the rear wheel then tie it to the tree and get the transit to walk up the rope. Wont get you out of every where but does work in some situations.

 

that method doesnt work at-all, there was a device made some years ago designed with this concept in mind, it was a flop.

 

much better idea would be a tifor, or simmilar hand winch-cheaper, more versitile, can use it for front or rear recovery, and gives you a work out too

[skyhuck]

Transit would a large fishing reel not be sufficient :001_tongue:

[Johny Walker]

large fishing reel wouldnt that be classed as overkill :001_tongue: