Just in case you haven't twisted or bent the top tube you welded the receiver onto yet, consider another brace from the bottom of the receiver tube to the bottom angle iron on the bed of the trailer. Dragging non-wheeled things onto the trailer can build up a lot of tension and the trailer wasn't designed for that kind of load. I like those little winches and put one on a receiver tube for the hitch on the back of my Tundra. I mostly uproot small trees and shrubs with it.
Nicely done! You planned your work, then worked your plan, and it turned out very well. If I may add, you carried it out without lacing profanity throughout the video as well. That's a rarity anymore! Lol ... You offer some very helpful ideas, as I am about to install a Badland 3,500# winch onto my Texas Bragg tilt-bed trailer. I'll no doubt use some of your ideas. Thank you for sharing.
I did a lot of youtube searching for different ideas before settling on this plan. I am very pleased with how it turned out. Thank you for watching! When I was young, profanity was my language of choice. I am a much wiser and mature individual now. Thanks again!
Awesome! I was thinking of doing this the other day and tossing plans around. This is exactly what I’m now planning to do with the same combo. Thank you for the better plan to go with! Welds look good BTW👍
Great video, you explained everything perfectly. I’m going to a very similar setup but with a hand crank winch that I have. Like you, the only thing I’d be cranking onto the trailer would be a lawn tractor. Thanks for the video.
Thanks so much for posting this, much appreciated. I’m getting ready to start exact same project with same winch on the 4x8 TS trailer. My plan was to simply bolt a HF bumper receiver hitch to top rail (upside down), and then mount the winch on HF hitch mount. I lack the equipment to weld. I would use it to crank up dead quads or riding mowers, so the weights and forces would be much smaller than cars or heavy equipment. I’d imagine it would work without reinforcement, but though I’d solicit your input Step Hitch Bumper Mount 2" Receiver 5000 Lb Load Capacity Trailer Truck Rv + Guide Gear Universal Winch Mount for ATV, UTV, Truck, 2" Receiver, 3500 lbs
Thanks for sharing this video! That's a real simple and neat way to mount a small winch. I have the same style (different brand) winch and I'm definitely going to have mine setup like yours. I really like that!
Socketed mounts also permit instant winch upgrades and using one winch for multiple tasks. I use one of those on a handled plate to pull machine tools etc where I want them. They run fine off my JNC 660 jump pack or jumper cables etc. I chain mine to any suitable anchor and use a snatch block (cheap, strong, small, good!) to direct the wire rope as needed. You can never have too much rigging gear.
i know alot of guys have added a wire from the battery to your 12 volt source on the 7 pin beings it already grounded to the truck they put it on the hot side of the auxilary battery with a fusible link, ive never tried it but it makes sense to keep the winch battery charged
I used the holes that came predrilled to line it up. I had to line it up so that the three holes needed for the winch were exposed. They were close. Thanks for watching!
I did my winch the same way but drilled a hole through the tube that goes into the 2'' receiver and put a locking pin through it in case I was at a store towing my trailer and didn't want someone to steal the winch. Plus if you needed to tow another vehicle out of a ditch you can just mount the winch on the receiver of your truck. I have the same winch as yours my other one drowned when Hurricane Michael came through in Eastern N.C. and had my trailer underwater for about a week.
Nice job, I put one on my trailer with a battery box and a Harbor Freight solar panel hooked to the battery. It works like a trickle charger to keep the battery topped off. Your welding is far superior to mine. LOL
Good job. I am considering a 2 ton swivel crane for my trailer. I have seen them on a trailer hitch for a pickup but may weld it to my trailer. The lifting is via hydraulic Jack. Again, good video.
A couple tips from an old timer. Try to avoid welding outside with a MIG welder because a little breeze can blow your gas away and screw up a good weld. You welding a little cold, I noticed looking at the 3/16" plate on the other side it didn't look like you got optimum penetration though I did notice you had taken the flap disc to it and maybe removed the evidence. When you weld cold the weld has a tendency to build up on the surface instead of sinking into the metal requiring grinding to make it look good. A good hot weld will be convex not concave. Further, depending on what you are going to winch on the trailer, you will probably need to reinforce that cross tube. Outside of these unsolicited tweaks I think you did a bang up (good) job on this. If you decide to put a battery in the tool box you can keep it charged through the center wire on a seven pin trailer plug.
so im curious do you have a angle trailer? 2500 lbs to me seems like it would be really small to drag a derby car up, not doubting your idea at all just curious i was kinda wanting to do the same, just most cars weight about 3000 lbs
I would suggest you place a knee brace from your receiver tube down to a added cross member on the tongue, if your weight load shifts it will twist that top angle like a pretzel
It's square tube and it's still as good as new. I mostly use it to pull lawn tractors onto the trailer. Some of those tractors had flat tires but the winch dragged them up with no problem. Apparently, my welding is holding up as well! Thanks for watching
Nice job! I could not tell if you had the cable or the "rope" on the winch. The rope will give you the same pull power with a lot less hassle. Again, nice job.
You used your angle grinder to remove the paint from the trailer but did you also grind the paint off that receiver tube before you welded them together? Great Mod though and it will make loading things easier.
I did the same thing on my trailer and for a while carried a spare battery on the trailer to power it up until I realized that I could simply rig up a coupler to the power output of the trailer socket to utilize the truck's battery. I use it a great deal to winch up motorcycles onto the trailer which is a good deal safer than riding the bike up.
Feeding a winch through that 7way plug is normally a bad idea. Too much draw for the wire which is only about 10ga normally so 30a max. A winch always needs a battery
@@mrmotofy I circumvented that concern by not depending on the factory wiring harness and running a heavier wire back to the trucks battery using an incline fuse. The winch I had was about the smallest that HF had to offer at the time and I was using it primarily to winch motorcycles up onto the trailer safely. It had a wireless remote on it with a lanyard which I had on my wrist and I rode the bike slowly up the ramp and up on the trailer. I never liked the idea of riding bikes up onto a trailer, there is too much to go wrong, so I set up the winch on the trailer.
I suggest running cables from the alternator to charge that battery. If yourun the winch, you will run the battery down a bit and leaving a battery like that discharged for any length of time will ruin it prematurely.
You sure are asking a lot from that thin tube cross bar. One heavy pull and it's going to twist and bend it like a pretsel. (IE: needs more triangulation) I suggest you reinforce that cross tube or install an angled brace tube or large gusset down to the trailer floor. Course you may not be pulling anything up heavier than a lawn mower, but get it hung up one time on the trailer lip and that 2500 lb winch will bend it. I have a much bigger trailer {18' tandeum axle} and load cars on it with a Badlands 12K winch. My winch is mounted to a reciever hitch that is welded to the frame rails at the floor level. I've loaded rolled over wrecks with it, and drug them onto the trailer with 3 blown tires and never had any issues with the mounting because the winch is mounted at the strongest part of the trailers frame. It has saved my back many times. JSYK I have a tool box mounted on the trailer tounge with a full size car battery in battery box inside it to power the winch. And an Anderson plug to connect the power cords. My truck alternator charges the battery when the engine is running via a dual battery isolator mounted under the hood. Love the wireless remotes! Makes it a lot easier to use the winch without the cord. The advantage of having the winch not mounted in shear, is you can use it in your trucks reciever too!
Boy, hope the 2500 lb winch doesn't pull your cross bar backward, better put some supports on him or you will have a nice bow job , I would weld a brace towards the front and move the tool box somewhere or up, but loved the idea or the tube hitch, Thanks,
i was kinda thinking the same thing, most utility trailers i wouldnt think would need a winch considering the fact atvs golf cart lawn mowers and such can be pushed on, 2500 lbs is about the size for a 450, 500 honda
@@ManthatsCool100 Have you pull anything yet with some weight? I installed winch for boats, on my boat trailer, after I read the instructions it say not to run the winch for more than 15 seconds, then let it cool for 15 minutes, at that rate will take about 2 hours to load a 28 foot boat. And it isn't a cheep winch.
I know it's been months since you posted this video, and others may have already mentioned this and said it in a rude way or something and you may have removed such rude comments.. I would have. I am not a rude person, and I don't know what welding experience you have, but just to inform you incase you don't know and for your future projects.. You ground the paint off the trailer railing, but it looked as though you didn't grind the paint off the hitch receiver before welding it. And, for welding the tube to the winch mounting plate, you ground the paint off of the plate, but you didn't grind a clean surface on the tube. But, another important part is that you didn't grind the tube end to a bevel. Hopefully for your use the weld is holding up ok, but for a much stronger joint, a bevel should be put on such a joint. A beveled edge allows for deeper penatration and gives more weldable surface area. The receiver part already had a bevel on the rounded corners of that tube where you welded it to the trailer railing. Also, depending on what weight you're winching, you may need a brace support welded onto the trailer railing where the winch is, so that you don't bend the railing as you're winching a heavy load. Good job!
The hitch receiver and the tube were bare metal without any kind of paint. All the surfaces that I welded were bare metal. In regard to bending the railing, that 2 inch square tube won't bend by anything that I winch onto the trailer (most lawn tractors). It's all holding up very well. Thanks for your concern.
Thanks for the video and the quality of the explanation. I do have one question. why didn't you drill a hole into the stock bar that the winch is attached to? I asked this because if you had a hole centered with the hole on the receiver, you could put a hitch pin in and make the setup stiffer for pulling an item onto the trailer. Thanks
Since the bar is vertical and the cable will be pulling horizontal, there is no need to have that pin. The most that I pull onto the trailer is a garden tractor that won't start. Thanks for watching.
I just got a TSC trailer and am looking at ideas for mounting a winch like you just did. I am wondering what kind of load the trailer frame can handle before it bends though.
I use my trailer for lawn tractors and such. I have dragged non-rolling tractors onto the trailer without any problems. The trailer is not large enough for a car or anything large like that, so no issue there. The square tube of the trailer is pretty strong. But I understand your concern.
instead of a battery can you run wires with alligator clips to the truck battery under the hood and keep the truck running as not to drain the battery for say pinching a moose onto the trailer? Or will that distance of wire to the truck battery cause issues for the power to the winch??
I’ve never welded anything but am an avid DIYr and definitely want to start welding. Two questions; What type (mig/tig etc) did you use here and would you recommend that for a brand newbie? Thanks!
I use a Hobart 140 MIG welder. I can plug it into a standard household outlet. I spent the extra money and got a tank of CO2 gas for shielding. It makes welding easier. What I like about Hobart is that it is made by Miller but less expensive. Thanks for watching.
I use a harbor freight Omni pro . Wait until they go on sale or use a coupon to save even more. I've been running mine for almost ten years now. You can mig, tig or stick on it and it runs on 110 or 220.
@@tonyrodriguez5627 I have a Hobart Handler 140. It uses 110 and I bought the CO2 gas. (The gas came from a different supplier) Works great! I got it from Tractor Supply during a grand opening sale. Thanks for watching.
Nice installation job, but what could you possibly need a winch for on a trailer that size ? I have a 8'x12' for my ATV's and can push them on easily and I'm 70
If you look at some of my other videos, you'll see that I work a lot with lawn and garden tractors. They aren't always running. Sometimes, the tires are flat or transaxles are locked up and they don't roll very easily. This has been a back saver. Thanks for watching.
Make a platform to keep stuff up about 2 " off the floor of that tongue box. Those cheap ungasketed tin boxes are gonna leak when you drive in the rain...guaranteed!!
Great job. I need a winch to load my John Deere 100 series lawn tractor to bring it to my girlfriends house to help her mow her 7 acre lawn. 😎 instead of driving it into my trailer. Where’d you get your toolbox?
Nice J-O-B. I'd put the hole through and put a pin in it. Maybe a small solar panel on the lid of the box to keep the battery topped off. And of course a couple of bikini clad dolls sitting on both sides.
I used a tape to find the center mark. As far as level goes, I would have to make sure both tires are inflated at the same PSI and then adjust for a driveway that may not be perfectly level. It's just a cable, not a house or piece of furniture. Thanks for watching.
Don't use the harbor freight winch the new design is very weak can break under light pulling had it happen to me 2 times got my money back and went to tractor supply and bought there 12,000 lb winch no problem with it
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