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Offline zutefisk

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Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« on: April 14, 2005, 03:21:06 PM »
Saw a question like this on a Jeep board when I was researching off brand winches.

If you had to chose between locker or winch, what would you chose and why?
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2005, 03:25:38 PM »
If you wheel alone a lot Id say winch, Otherwise Id say locker. A winch will get you out of a jam and prevent body damage. A locker will help your rig perform better and prevent you from needing a winch. ;)

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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2005, 04:19:22 PM »
I made the locker choice it's a cheaper option if you go with an automatic one.
If you want selectable then read the above post.
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2005, 04:24:21 PM »
Personally I went Winch, armor, and recovery first, then lift and tires. I hope to have lockers in there someday, but my truck is very capable without them. My reasoning was that while wheeling on stock tires, I would need the skidplates to protect the undercarriage and the winch to pull my self out when I inevitably got stuck. Plus I learned a lot about the limits of my truck by wheeling it stock first, even if it did tear up my truck in the process...
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2005, 04:37:22 PM »
 Ã‚  Get a poor man's winch (come a long and tow straps) and the locker!  Samis are light enough, the come a long works pretty well and you will love the locker!!
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2005, 05:26:47 PM »
saftey and self recovery have always came first to me
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2005, 05:29:17 PM »
thats a hard decision! 8)
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2005, 05:57:31 PM »
If you like pulling other people out all of the time and putting wear and tear for free on your winch go for it, if you like to have fun and say sorry my rig is too light to pull you out and my clutch is bad, get the locker, I pulled my lockers out to put in lower gears two years ago and have been wheeling with the local club and have only had to be strapped five times, four of them was on purpose, not bad for open diffs and have had many a fourty thousand dollar jeep try to follow me and needed a winch to pull them out.
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2005, 06:04:43 PM »
One can get you out of trouble, the other can keep you out of trouble, they both tempt you to get in deeper and steeper.

If you travel with a group, the locker is kind of a courtesy to the group because they don't have to wait for you to winch your way out of little trouble.

If you travel alone, the winch will get you out of trouble until it stops working.

No matter what the choice, you've gotta have a jack and strap.

If there is a jeep full of bikini models door deep in a mud hole, the winch will probably get you more action than the lockers.






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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2005, 07:51:34 PM »
Not if you try to get them all in your sammie and give them a ride.  ;D
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2005, 08:13:10 PM »
Man thats a hard choice !!!

I think I'd have the locker first ( selectable locker that is) as quite often when I'm stuck all it takes to get out is the rear locker to be engaged, where as if it was a auto lockers you ace card is up as soon as your stuck ;).

The winch is handy for wheeling alone but I've been caught out  many times by not having a ground anchor or winch extension strap with me and the nearest trees like 200' away, I guess it all comes down to "go prepared and be prepared"  :-/
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2005, 11:22:34 PM »
An auto locker is cheaper... $2-300, where a good winch is going to be $4-500.

Get a locker and a come-along as others have said, and then save up for a winch. ;)
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2005, 11:56:58 PM »
I had lockers first and then the winch but I don't wheel alone(at the moment) so a winch wasn't as important but as Mudfkr pointed out a winch is still no good if you haven't got anything to winch from or can't reach something.
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2005, 01:12:38 AM »
I've hardly used my winch at all.  I almost always wheel with other people and just get a strap and a tug to get out.

So, it depends on what kind of wheeler you are.  If you go where you need to get through and lockers won't do it for you get the winch.

If your a "I'll try it and you can pull me out" person, go for the lockers.
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Re: Locker or Winch? Your thoughts
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2005, 02:13:42 AM »
I have 175 feet of synthetic line on my winch, and sometimes, when I'm stuck in deep snow, I need ALL of it to get unstuck (yes, I get stuck, even with the lockers on).  I agree with Mike.

Oh, and the lockers turn your rig into an entirely different beast!
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