Lets hear your suggestions for a winch for a car trailer.
A lot of this may be battery/ cables, and there is always "double line" it
Biggest complaint I have about my HF 2500? 2800? is that the winch drum is NOT large enough, and the drum cross ties cause the wire to bind if you do not CAREFULLY monitor it to "level wind"
New cables, New battery, jumped the New battery with another good battery, to double available power...... (both indicating 12.6v.) and it still needed the additional 2500, powered by the jumper battery to get a 6500lb truck, oops,my mistake, a 2500lb car, up a I 1/2 foot high trailer.
There is no f@#king way I should need to double line an 9000 lb rated winch to pull a 2500 lb car.
Note! : in my previous post I said it was a 9 ton winch. That was a memory mistake, it's actually a 9000 lb winch.
So STILL, it should have no problem pulling 1/3 it's rating up a low trailer with nice long ramps.
Next time, I'm just gonna try the little 2500, all by itself. The one that isn't near as nice or convenient as the FIRST 2500 one I got fifteen years ago......
Still shopping for a new winch. Kinda hard to do, since I don't buy from amazon or ebay.