Portable Winch Set Up

[MH785]

Does anyone have pics of a winch set up they've made to easily disconnect from the trailer floor? Thanks in advance!

 

[Jtmoney714]

I don’t have any pics but I have a hitch receiver mounted vertically in my floor. Then my winch is mounted to a hitch plate so that I can put it away when I want. 

 

[FOG]

I don’t have any pics but I have a hitch receiver mounted vertically in my floor. Then my winch is mounted to a hitch plate so that I can put it away when I want. 

I have the same thing. Put a receiver cover over the square hole in the trailer floor when not being used.  I also mount a vice to another plate and use it the same way. 
You can also use them on a regular trailer hitch receiver on your truck etc. 

 

[honEXduner]

I put my 3k winch on a piece of 1/4" plate with a 3/8 chain looped through it so it can be attached to nearly anything. Used to hook it to a couple d-rings in the floor to pull the old buggy up the ramp into the trailer. Worked great for a while and added a snatch block to ease the load (steep ramp).  Makes the winch handy for other things too.   

Friend of mine took an alternate path and made an adapter deal to put the winch on his buggy so he could use its battery for power,  just hook onto the floor d-ring and pull. Made it easier to steer the buggy in while controlling the winch too. 

 

[URCLEVER]

This is what I have and works great for emergency uses:

Amazon.com: Superwinch 1140232 Winch2Go Winch : Automotive

 

[Agricon]

I bought a couple of these. There great, Warn 885000

 

[CMBAMF]

I bought a couple of these. There great, Warn 885000

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^^This. I used to use one of these in my hoy hauler to winch the rail in backwards. worked great.

 

[Icky]

I built something similar to this for my BILs weekend warrior.

 http://www.midwestracecabinets.com/in-floor-winch-boxes.html

 

[L.R.S.]

I added a winch to @tjZ06 enclosed many years ago.  Can't even guess at how many trailers ago that was.  Harbor Freight Badlands 5k winch, same as I've been running on my flatbed for 6 years, and it gets a lot of use.  We welded in 2x2 trailer receiver tube and bought the winch mount plate, also from Harbor Freight, welded 2x2 hitch stock to the bottom, drilled a 5/8" hole for the hitch pin and done.  Very simple job to to directly on the floor, a little more involved is its going into a cabinet.















The plan was to get a set of these quick connectors (also called forklift power connectors) and make the winch easy to move to a truck hitch, another trailer, etc.  Never got around to doing that.  

 

[L.R.S.]

Almost forgot I added a winch to my enclosed and inside of a cabinet.  Similar to the pics above, find a cross member or good place to weld 2x2 hitch receiver  to the frame, cut a hole in the floor, cut another hole in the base cabinet, weld 2x2 hitch stock to the bottom of the winch mount, done.  Also the best thing I ever did was switch this winch to synthetic rope thanks to @matt86m who I bought it from.  Synthetic is 70% lighter then steel braided cable.  Didn't really nedd a 8k winch but I happened to have one on the shelf so that's what I used.  I used the quick disconnects on this winch and the 5k on my flatbed but rarely move the winches around.



The copper pipe is my compressed air system plumbed to all four corners outside the trailer.  Good to have plumber friends.

 

[Kraut_n_Rice]

Those heavy electrical plugs are also called Anderson connectors.  I'd run the next size up from what LRS noted though.

 

[cek]

This is what I have and works great for emergency uses:

Amazon.com: Superwinch 1140232 Winch2Go Winch : Automotive

I have the same one. Easy peasy. 

 

[tjZ06]

I added a winch to @tjZ06 enclosed many years ago...

You also added one to my 20' deck-over flatbed (man, I want that trailer back).  And, I need you to add one in the white enclosed I have now, lol.

-TJ

 

[L.R.S.]

Those heavy electrical plugs are also called Anderson connectors.  I'd run the next size up from what LRS noted though.

Why? 6 years on my flatbed out in the elements, winch gets used 2-3 times a week. So why would you run the next size up?

 

[Kraut_n_Rice]

Prefer to run 4ga wire vs 6 is all.  At half the capacity of that winch you're pulling over 250a.  That is the conservative limit for a short (4') run of 4ga wire.  The battery cables you will likely find at the auto parts store will be 4ga also.

Maybe you get stuck one day and need the winch to pull you out backwards.