Getting the Right 12V Trailer Winch

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

A 12V trailer winch works great for pulling your boat out of the water and onto your trailer.  If you’ve got a big boat, it’s almost a necessity to have one, but even if you only have a smaller boat, an electric winch can save you the backbreaking labor or ...

Using Synthetic Winch Cable with Your 12V Winch

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

One thing that you can do to make your 12V winch safer is to replace your steel winch cable with synthetic winch rope.  There are a few reasons for this, but the main reason is that if the winch cable does break, a synthetic rope will not recoil and snap ...

12V Electric Winch Basics

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

What is a 12V winch?  In short, it is tool that is powered by an electrical motor that pulls in or lets out a length or cable from a spool.  The simplest version of a winch is powered by a hand crank, but today winches can be powered by 12V ...