Multidirectional Winch Mount on Spare Drawbar
We had to solve a tricky problem -- pulling our little trailer up onto our short driveway at a 45 degree angle into a tight space, with no way to pull it up with the truck hitch. After a lot of trial and error, we solved that problem by mounting the winch to the back of the truck and running the cable to a pulley mounted into the driveway with a drop-in bolt. The pulley guides the trailer into place.
But while we were solving that problem, we stumbled across another solution to a problem we haven't had yet -- how to realign the winch when we can't get the truck into perfect position? I developed a winch mount that allows me to rotate the winch over a range of 180 degrees, so that I can "point" the winch in three different directions. The workmanship is not beautiful, but the whole assembly is very strong -- here is a blog post with several pictures:
Multidirectional Winch Mount on Spare Drawbar
But while we were solving that problem, we stumbled across another solution to a problem we haven't had yet -- how to realign the winch when we can't get the truck into perfect position? I developed a winch mount that allows me to rotate the winch over a range of 180 degrees, so that I can "point" the winch in three different directions. The workmanship is not beautiful, but the whole assembly is very strong -- here is a blog post with several pictures:
Multidirectional Winch Mount on Spare Drawbar
