I bought this winch to help get mowers and other such items up on my trailer. It is a badlands 2500lbs winch from harbor freight. #winch #harborfreighttools #welding
Been a welder fabricator for 30 years now and you got enough on it to hold it on through a couple of these little winches. If you're welding machine don't get exactly hot enough make a couple of passes on it and it should hold no more pressure than you got with it . Best of luck and keep on welding.👍
Tim, I have the same winch on my four wheeler and it has never let me down. But my controls are hard wired so I have to be on the wheeler. You may end up with straps under floor boards to spread your load out. Good job.
When I replace those bolts I will probably add the plates. Glad to hear this has worked out for you. I got to use it yesterday, old Simplicity lawn tractor was too heavy to push up the gate by myself.
I’d think about putting a plate underneath the boards, and bolting the winch through it with some grade 8 fasteners. I’d like to try my hand at welding.
Just hook your power wire from the winch to the constant hot on your plug that way as soon as you plug it in it's hot ,being the ignition switch is on,and I just want to say that's a great idea you got me thinking now brother. Appreciate it....
If you’re using a suitcase style welder with material that thick it really helps to pre heat the metal. You’d be surprised what it can do. I’d say like 300 degrees would be just fine
Why did you not buy the $5.00 mount made for that winch, sold by Harbor Freight. Lord, you made a hard job out of that mounting. My 12,000 gross Hudson trailer, mounted the winch drilling three 3/8” holes to mount the Harbor Freight Mounting Plate. Took me twenty minutes to mount the winch. You should have bought shorter bolt to secure the winch to your homemade mount.
My HF doesnt have a mount for that winch or I would have used that instead. Mounting would have been a lot quicker. Always fun to break out the welder though
Bought one yesterday and returned it today, what a piece of SHIT! had it out of the box for 5 min and put it right back in the box. Couldn't even mount it because of the threaded inserts on the winch. Glad I didnt install or trust this on a 10k honda.
