6000lb Electric Boat Trailer Winch

First winch arrived in good outward shape, but when hooked to power source, nothing. No continuity on either forward or reverse circuit upon testing. Something at factory likely inadequately connected. Easy return and replacement. Second one works nice. A longer power connection cord would be nice as too short for many uses behnd a pickup truck. I will lengthen the cord myself. I will use it on a smaller fishing boat trailer as I'm getting older and some ramps are rather steep. Winch has optional hand crank so if it fails to operate, I can still crank the boat in. Took awhile to design and build a mount adapter for my particular trailer, many trailers would not need such. But worth the time and work. Easy to operate, easy to hook up to power, long controller cord a major plus as it allows me to access rear of boat while operating winch. In wind, such a reach really matters!

Used twice. First time the winch was used to recover the boat, the trailer was in water with about 3/4 of the bunks submerged. Strained to pull 2800 / 2900 pound boat (not plus trailer 3500) and stalled out when it reached exposed bunks. Backed further into the water and still had very difficult time getting it to within a foot of the bow rest. Backed further in, still was a problem getting it up tight against the bow rest rubber.Next trip, even though trailer was backed in as far as possible on a steep and deep water ramp, it would not winch the boat in more than half way. Used handle to roll in manually. With about two feet to go there was a pop and it sounded like a gear tooth had broken off. By the time we got it in, safe to travel and safety chain connected, it sounded, and cranked like several other teeth on the gear had broken.Got this winch to replace a 6000 pound winch I’ve used for many years but is only power in freewheel out. I wanted the power out feature of this one. Guess I’ll have to put the old one back on. Not sure I trust that this was just a fluke bad one out of the box and replacing it with the same would solve problem.Brought boat home today, called Amazon and will be sending it back.

I’ve only used it once, but it worked like a charm, and sucked my boat right up onto the trailer!

Received with a loose connection! The customer service is not as great as they said. I have to leave a message and now emailing them about the situation. Still not hearing from them at the moment.

Seems well built. I hard wired it for a boat trailer. Fished some 10 gauge with from truck bed to battery. The incuded cable was too short. Mounted it by raising the manual winch platform. Fishing bolts thru the winch into the platform was a chore but thr result is nice. Spend sime time getting to know it and then try it out.I'm hauling a 16 ft bed mounted boat with a 25 HP motor.If it gives me trouble I'll edit this later.Now that I've used it I can honestly say it barely breaks a sweat. ( Me neither ). I hand cranked the boat to get it aligned and then just pushed the remote button and away we went.The remote and power connections have a plastic cap that I just put in my pocket.Definitely recommend this product.

This 12volt powered trailer winch is durable and an excellent addition to most boat trailers and boats that weigh less than 4,000 pounds. The winch is easily installed by undoing 8 bolts and removing the hand winch. The reverse is then used to mount the Bravex winch. (The safety chain is retained). The steel cable is durable and extends beyond the end of my trailer. The operation is quiet and the only complaint may be the cable unwinding and rewinding speed.

The media could not be loaded. I purchased this Bravex winch to load and unload heavy items off of a dump trailer. I built a cart with heavy duty wheels and use a sheet of plywood on my metal ramps. My dump trailer has a 12 V hydraulic system so it was easy to connect the positive and negative battery connectors to the trailer battery. I was up and running in less than 20 minutes after unboxing. The trailer came with a winch plate but if you’re using it to haul construction material it would be easy to damage any winch. This just drops in to the winch plate area without any connection necessary. I can unplug it and put it in the back of my truck when not in use.The only thing that I would change would be to have a longer remote cord or possibly a remote extension adapter cord

Very cheaply made, wouldn’t recommend