RUGCEL WINCH12V DC Electric Portable Utility Winch 4500lb/2041kg Single Line Pull with Steel Mounting Plate, Integrated Hawse Fairlead and Synthetic Rope,Wiress Remote, Black

I needed an emergency recovery option for my trips out to my cabin in the woods. I take one of two cars when I go. I didn't buy this for rock crawling fun with the boys. So a permanant mount option wasn't ideal. On the first trip out to the cabin, due to my new confidence, I tried to climb up the side of a west virginia mountain in 5" snow in my 4X4 F-250. Got a little too silly and dropped a tire off the edge of the road while sliding. I pulled out the conveniently packaged suitcase winch, rigged up the straps and wiring (shame on me for not prepping, but it would be nice if the wires had clamps on one end), then proceeded to winch while my daughter goosed the throttle. We got out of there and lived to tell the story. It's not rated for pulling an F-250 up an incline, but it came through.Edit: i just added a PWM controller and an M18 Milwaukee battery as a way to use it “wirelessly”. I will either make other bumper-mount winch users embarrassed, or i will kill myself…. TBD

I use an e-trike to tow my PK-14 kayak on a single kayak trailer to the community dock. The ramp into the water is sand, so pulling the kayak out of the water can be difficult… especially at low tide.So I bought this winch and and attached it to the back of the e-trike. Winching the kayak out of the water is now easy.The winch works perfectly.

I bought this to help load a few smaller cars onto my aluminum Featherlight trailer. I did not want to attach a permanent winch to it as It is fairly small and I am worried about theft. Instead I bought two 18" soft shackles that anchor the unit to my tow hitch when I am loading something. The hitch I have is adjustable and has 3 balls and 1 hook. With the orientation of my hitch the loop ends of the soft shackles go around one of the unused balls and the hook. The knotted ends of the shackles are anchored in behind the removable pins on the winch. I then set the winch and battery on my trailer box and put it to work. Quick and easy loading is now possible! It will be interesting to see how the winch pulls on a heavier load, but so far so good

very well made looks heavy duty. I haven't used it I hope I never have to. It certainly looks like it would pull my Jeep out of trouble.

Make sure everything is in the box. Winch rope was missing in mine. Would not be good to discover that out in the boonies.

I love that it's not only in a case to keep rain off but it's mounted to a steel plate with D rings on back. Perfect for temporary mounting in the bed of my truck for pulling in heavy loads. 200lb deer is hard to lift into a big 4x4.

No customer support. Positive lead should come with circuit breaker to protect motor from overheating! Went to web site its very limited and useless and emailed. No response

Bad range from remote. Everything else is good tho