Baystate Jeepers

9,000 lb Badland Winch

http://www.harborfreight.com/9000-lb-of ... 68143.html

On sale for $349 and there is a $100 off coupon right now! I'm trying so hard not to buy it but the mouse hand is shaking over the "Submit Order" button...help!

"Badland winches - Harbor Freight? Are they junk?"

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=976310

The consensus is that the winches are made by 12 yr old Chinese kids that can do trigonometry

88jeepxj wrote:9,000 lb Badland Winch

http://www.harborfreight.com/9000-lb-of ... 68143.html

On sale for $349 and there is a $100 off coupon right now! I'm trying so hard not to buy it but the mouse hand is shaking over the "Submit Order" button...help!

Hereeeeeee we go.......

I read the first page of the Pirate thread and agree it would make a great winch for the trailer, but would not trust it to get my rig, or someone elses, out of a hairy situation.

at that price for chits and giggles I might consider it for a rear winch but like Doug said it would be purely decorative.... LOL

for that price i just bought one. if you read on in the link the was a koh guy that has the older style one and never had a issue. if it works for him it works for me.

Voodoo Chile wrote:at that price for chits and giggles I might consider it for a rear winch but like Doug said it would be purely decorative.... LOL

When I said for the trailer I meant mount it on the trailer and use it when the Heep breaks and you need help loading it.

I use Ramsey. Fawk China.

mopar_power wrote:for that price i just bought one. if you read on in the link the was a koh guy that has the older style one and never had a issue. if it works for him it works for me.

I didn't have any baggage when I bought my $300 Smittybilt, I bought it because it seemed like a good deal. I ignored the people who said it was a POS, turns out most of them had no first hand experience, they were just regurgitating what they heard second hand, or dismissed it and laughed at it, because it was a $300 winch. But nobody here would do that I winched the piss out of my Smittybilt more than a few times over a few years, and you know what? The haters were wrong. I sold it used, for not much less than I bought it for, and bought another 'no name' winch

Engineered and assembled in the USA...Warn for less than $500.00.



http://www.quadratec.com/products/92136_0100_07.htm

I saw a write up in a previous Peterson's 4WD Mag (one of many 4WD rags we get) on Harbour Freight and they did mention this Badlands winch and gave it a good rating from what I can remember - I can look it up tonight and confirm. Rob was looking into that winch too to replace his Milemarker which he has had nothing but issues with. Also too - depends too on how much stock you put into Peterson's articles.

But I love my Warn winch!

the thing I'd be concerned about is line speed. My milemarker is horribly slow. Next winch I get is gonna have to be faster.