XBull 13500 Winch In A Cradle To Mount On Any Vehicle In 2 Minutes
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- XBull 13500 Winch In A Cradle To Mount On Any Vehicle In 2 Minutes
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excellent setup, thank you for sharing 🙏... we started a portable winch set up like this like a year ago... but never finsihed it cause we have nothing to winch off of in the desert (that spade attachment thingy doesn't really work)... so its more for recovering others.
yep it would be tough to dig an anchor into that rocky ground. But the portable hitch winch sure is a great set up. there when you need it and stored away when you dont, out of the elements.
You certainly have a habit of piquing my interest with the accessories you talk about on your videos! This type of winch has many advantages to those far more expensive winches that are installed---at some considerable cost---to the front of a Jeep or other off-road vehicle. Great job! Andy McKane, Maunaloa, Molokai, Hawaii.
Glad you enjoyed it. Agree this has a lot of advantages and fits my wants more than a front mounted
You can put a shackle in the hitch pin hole and a strap to a front tow hook in a worse case scenario. Especially with you cables and wireless remote.
I'm not following what that's for?
@@Jason-Samko pull from the front without a front hitch. Or could run strap around a tree and winch cable to front of truck tow hook.
@@lugnutzz75 got it! Now I understand. Great tips
Great stuff, I bought this same setup , wish you would have added you hooking up the wires and such!
I do in the xbull winch review video
I have similar setup on an atv winch and welded a hitch on my trailer to help load stuff on trailer. Next will be a hitch on a jib pole for skinning deer that fits a hitch and trailer and swivels.
Sounds like that will be a sweet set up
Awesome content!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
It was very informative. You explain things well.
@@is6566 thank you
Do you like (or trust that) more than the Wyeth come along? and just curious, do you like the portable winches that can hang between vehicles for recovery? Thanks, I've got the Wyeth already, but I'm leaning on something like that for front and back
I love my wyeth power puller. But it's getting time for new rope witch is 100 bucks so i have not felt comfortable using it until I decide to spend the money on the rope.
But I love the wyeth puller! However this winch set up is so much easier, reaches farther, more capable, less work on the body and I don't have to stand in the line of fire if something breaks. I love having both the winch and the weyth. But in 100% honestly the wyeth will probably never go in the truck again now that I have this winch set up.
Great looking system, thank you Jason Samko, great channel you made here.
Thank you
How did you learn about prepping the spool for first use? That's next level.
first winch I owned turned into a tangled mess first time I used it and the wraps pulled between the others. Did some research and learned to load the line when you wrap. I believe it even says that in the owners manual now too for many winches.
Love this setup! Thanks for the demo!!
Very welcome
Excellent information for new users. Extremely valuable!
@fredenglish7959 thank you
I'm a huge believer in portable winches.
But, connecting to the battery with jumper cable jaws will cause issues with melted jaws and or battery terminals. You just can't move 400 plus amps for 30-40 seconds at a time without issues. It may also fry the winch motor. Although battery clamps make the system convenient, in real world winch loads it will cause big issues. I would install a short Anderson connector harness off your Gladiator and 4Runners battery and get rid of the jumper cable jaws.
That would defeat the purpose of being able to put the winch on other vehicles (like a buddy who is stuck, or when we take friends trucks on a trip). So far have not had any issues in the 4 times I've used it. Clamps don't even get warm. The cables are rated for 15k amps. But that is fantastic info and something to watch out for. Hopefully it doesn't become a problem or I will have to modify it. But so far no heat or issues at all.
@@Jason-Samko Understood. I make my living in the world of high amperage DC motors. The cables you have are aluminum with a copper coating. At 1500 amps, the insulation would liquefy in under 20 seconds due to heat causing a huge mess and shorts. The cable is not 1 gauge if you were to measure them. What is thick is the plastic insulation, giving the illusion of very thick cables. Best case scenario it does not weld itself to the trucks body.....worst case you end up with a fire. The surface area where the clamps make contact with the battery terminal is tiny in most cases....the XBull winch claims a max amp draw of 425 amps. I'm not telling you this to downplay what you've built, as I said I would never own a permanently mounted winch. Just be careful and mindful of the clamps if you're ever doing a seriously hard winch pull. I just want you safe and you're truck is way too nice to have it get damaged.
@georgecarousos6735 greatly appreciated and I by no means ment to downplay your warning. Just the opposite! I will 100% watch this and keep my pulls very short bursts and check it often as I do it. I do not want any of that to happen. I just need it to be portable for any vehicle not just my own. So I bought the biggest cables (knowing the 1500 Amp rating was be way over what I needed hoping to alleviate any issues there. Your advise is noted and greatly appreciated. And it means alot to me that you took the time to give such details. I am very grateful. If my comment did not sound that way I do apologize. I just don't have a better solution right now other than keep an eye on it when doing a hard pull. Have done 4 very long pulls but light, just jeep with parking brake on. But upto a minuted and a half at a time. And zero issues or heat yet.
@SamkoWorkShop In the case if not being able to help friends out if you take away the battery clamps it would cost a little but you could always buy a separate cable to connect you like the fellow was suggesting and have a spare cable for friends. But I have been wanting to do exactly what this is but I didn't know there was a factory made carriage so I was going to get one of my welding buddy's to weld a plate to a receiver hitch to mount a winch but I like this. Thanks for all your helpful videos including this one! I realy do preciate you and your character buddy! Happy Trails my friend!
@Tommy-rr7ez great option as well. Could set up double Anderson cable options. But I want to do some testing first and see what or if I need to change anything. But so far it's working like a champ.
I have a small version I made. But boy this looks so awesome. What would be cool is if one handle was hollow and a axle slipped in and two wheels pinned on. That way you could carry it to the back of the line for the guy stuck back there. An Anderson connector tip. I have one battery with an Anderson. Then I have 3 lawnmowers with Anderson. I use one battery to use any of the three. Run my diesel heater off it too. Being it's always used it lasts way longer.
Excellent tips. And yep it does get heavy if you have to carry it far. But if your along it only has to go from the bed to the hitch. If you are with others and need to move it to another truck a guy on each handle makes it very easy. Excellent rip on the Anderson clips
Very good explanation and video but folks need to consider the rated limits of each piece. The winch receivers are usually only rated for 10-12,000 lbs.... yes, I have one. The other is the vehicles tow receiver. On a Gladiator, they are max rated at 7,700 lbs. Can you guess which will fail 1st if overloaded using a 13,500 lb winch
The hitch is not rated at only 7700 pounds that the vehicles tow capacity based on gvwr, brakes, etc. That hitch is rated much higher than that. But you are very correct when you say the weak link is always the failure point. But also a winch only uses as much power as needed to move the vehicle. And the winch max rating is With only one wrap on the drum. So your odds of ever using that much is slim to none. And if your ever in a situation that requires even 10k of force you should be running a snatch block and multiple anchor points to reduce the load on any one anchor point. Have a video coming out on that soon. Bit the big take away is exactly what you said "know the ratings of every prices or your equipment " and also beable to closely judge the amount of force that will be needed.
@@Jason-Samko Thanks for the answer to that question. Because I was wondering about the safety of using it on my 21 Honda RL with it's 5000 lb tow rating.
@BillyBobTup yep it won't give you any problems. The hitch is one of the strongest points to connect to.
Thank you for the links to the cables and equipment
Very welcome
@@Jason-Samko I’ve got my winch with cradle coming for Father’s Day. My wife is a keeper for sure.
@@BOKEHMASTER she sure is! You are gonna love it
How hard would it be to make a mount so that you could use it on the front too and do you think you might do that?
you could add a front hitch receiver on the front. but Im probably not going to. I hope to never have to use this for myself. But sure will come in handy when buddies get stuck..lol
Great review and instructional video! I wonder if this would be too strong for something like a 21 Honda RL, rated to tow 5000 lb, possibly damaging it if buried in mud?
Hooked to the hitch it would be no worries in my mind. A ridge line can't get buried too deep as it doesn't have the ground clearance or suspension travel to get buried too deep. I do not mean that in a bad way at all either. I mean it as it would be hard to see a situation that would need massive pulling force to get it out.
Glad you got one
Sure do love having it! And the ability to put it in any vehicle. Plus I can leave it home for most days and take it with me for the sloppy rainy days. And I can store it in the bed where I don't feel the weight and it's protected from the elements and suns uvs.
Very interesting! I was hoping to see your wire connection to the battery or do you have a special connection? I might have missed your earlier video highlighting that.
Check out my video where I get stuck and use the winch. It's a thumbnail at the end of this video. I originally used clamps like I show here. But I have since put eyelets on the ends of the cables and just bolt them right on the battery terminals. Only takes about 30 seconds to do and better connection
@@Jason-Samko Thanks! Appreciate your participation in the comments
@@sinna7060 very welcome. Any questions on the set up just ask
Good video, and good job, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Please explain more about the power cables. Can I buy them premade ? I saw them link but where does it connect under the hood?
Yes they are pre made with the anderson connectors already installed. If you are going to do this to your truck you would get those cables and connect the shrot section to your battery and leave the connector under the hood. Cut the clamps off the other end and connect those wires to your winch. When you want to use it connect the winches anderson connector to the one under the hood.
One newbie question on that thing. Can I just connect it to the battery out of the box? Not sure if it has clips or I need an adapter.
It comes with wires to connect directly ro the battery in the box. They just are not long enough to reach all the way to the back of the truck
Nice setup. From what I can find, that winch pulls 300-400 amps. Do you have issues with voltage drop with the aluminum cables under heavy load?
Used it for 2 heavy duty stuck in peanut butter mud framed out and it worked flawless both times. Have a video of one of them on my channel if you search "stuck"
Any body know if this winch has a clutch lever that can be flip down 180 degrees?
Do you ever find yourself with the back buried though?
Yes. But no different than of you had a winch on the front and the nose submerged. And usually you can back up enough to get the back end up high enough to be out of the water.
Awesome
Glad you enjoyed it
Dumbass question - but can the winch pull you from the front? Or just from the rear via the trailer hitch? Or does that even matter?
there is a certain way you can do the rigging with snatch blocks to make a rear winch pull from the front. But its alot of work and less practical. If you are going to plan to keep going forward more often than trying to back out a front bumper mounted winch would be great.
😂😂😂 hooked up to power pole, don’t get caught doing that
it's a very light pull to spool the line and it was in a good spot to make the video without causing problems doing it in a parking lot etc.
@@Jason-Samko no worries, just bought a gladiator Willys , love your informative videos, keep it up
@aaronolson6205 love the willys! My buddy just bought one. Excellent tires, Excellent features. Off road ready right out of the box
Just makes it tough to winch from the front. Most aftermarket bumpers don't have hitches on front.
I plan on doing the same thing, putting a small lockable toolbox in back to keep it,gear, and a tool bag.
Just so you know it cost about 22000 dollars if you pull a power pole over, ask me how I know. better find a tree!
@gunlover1955 that had to be an experience!
This seemed like an ad for the product. You say winch or Veg-a-Matic.
If that's all you got out of it I'm sorry. Bit there was a ton of great info in the video if yoy watch it