Electric trailer winches

Superwinch is a well known brand, so should last you a long time, not sure about that Ninja one, looks like a Chinese one to me.

However, if it was me, I'd go for a cheaper (Chinese) winch, and see how it goes. Generally speaking its low effort loading onto trailers, unlike 4x4 winch users where the winch needs to haul you out of mud.

Second hand but well known brands is a good theory, but I spent months watching eBay, and only found knackered ones. Any that looked half decent went for more than the brand new Chinese ones.

if you want a handraulic one, I've got this lump lying around in the garage



sorry just my sense of humour

Cheers folks.

Yeah, my mate has the same design Brian James as me and his is mounted that way.
That is how I plan to mount an eleftric one, too. As not only does it centre the cable, it keeps it out the way of the handle for the tilt bed.

I have a cheap Chinese one. I have an incredibly narrow car port down one side of my house, however I can get an additional two cars in here, so it seemed worth while trying to find a way to utilise this space.

I could park the car in the gap, then I had to climb out the boot which was a bit tedious. I couldn't push the car in because the gradient was rather steep. Not incredibly steep but most probably steeper than the gradient of your trailer. The only soloution seemed to be to get a cheap electric winch and winch the cars up.

It's been in regular use for a good 18 months. Stored outside and sometimes used beyond its intended means (I used it to pull a very seized Escos off the back of a lorry and onto my drive way, which is did incredibly well).

It's not the nicest, most well produced item in the world and it will probably fail catastrophiclay at some point but for the money, I can't grumble.

After thinking about it, I agree. Less hassle and it's not as if it is a trial to hand winch a car on or off.

I can't easily find one with worm drive as well as two speeds, though.
Any suggestions?

I would say go for a decent hand winch as well, it's no hardship as long as stuff rolls ok, if there's a danger you might be physically dragging stuff on with jammed wheels invest in a couple of skates