We have see a lot of winches over the years and everyone says they have been: 

- "Rebuilt"

- "Repaired"

- "Was running when we took it off the tractor"

- "Tested"

In most cases people really don't know the condition of the winch. We've had winches that would turn, but on inspection the gears were not meshing properly, and quickly causing very costly damages. We've had winches that were "working" come into our shop where the drum would reel-in/out, but when we put a load on the winch to spool the cable it could barely wind up a new wire rope with the bad fwd clutch. You can "Test" a winch pressures and operation, but if you don't bring the clutch assemblies back to factory spec the clutch will have no grip and no puling power. On the newer winches there is NO way to test without installing on a tractor or investing in a alternate control assembly to drive the winch because new winches are computer driven from the dozer's on-board computer. 

As you can see in video, our when we use the term "rebuild", we mean actually rebuilt. We strip the our winches down to the frame to make sure they are within spec. Then the winch frame is cleaned out, and we go back to work putting everything back together with new soft goods, and new hard components where needed. When we test, we are testing a winch that has been rebuild with new components with years of experience and our testing is backed up by our workmanship. 

If you are considering buying a winch please make sure you know what you are getting. Common repair costs for a Allied W12E drum are nearly $10,000, a Carco H140 can easily exceed $20,000 to repair a planetary gear group, and smaller winches like a Allied W3C can often cost more to repair than the cost of the winch with some discontinued parts. 

Let us help you same money with a used winch that's been rebuilt the right way.