Custom Winch Mount

BigRiver · Sep 24, 2013

Got to work today fabricating my winch mount.

Started out with 1/4" x 6" flatbar, cut out the notches, ground down the edges. Heated it with the torch and bent the ends to match the angled square tubing.

Tomorrow I'll start boxing around the tubes and reenforcing the area.

Neohio

Hondasxs · Sep 24, 2013

Nice... And just in time... My winch arrived today. Lol

bigc · Sep 24, 2013

yes great job thanks for posting pictures

ohanacreek · Sep 24, 2013

That looks great Riv

BigRiver · Sep 25, 2013

Was tooling around in the garage today, cut out 3 more plates and an assortment of flat backing plates and angle iron plates.
Going to keep one as a template, as it's a major pain to heat up 1/4" thick steel and guess as to how far to bend the ends.

I might have a few to part with, we'll see how it goes.

ohanacreek · Sep 25, 2013

BigRiver said:
Was tooling around in the garage today, cut out 3 more plates and an assortment of flat backing plates and angle iron plates.
Going to keep one as a template, as it's a major pain to heat up 1/4" thick steel and guess as to how far to bend the ends.

I might have a few to part with, we'll see how it goes.

Yes, please

Yooper · Sep 26, 2013

If you do decide to sell one let me know. Yooper

fishin2Dmax · Sep 28, 2013

I too would like to purchase one of your Winch mounts if you decide to sell one.
Warn and other companies sound like they are a few months out on theirs... I need one sooner for my plow- we got our first snow yesterday----ERRRrrrrr...

Theron · Sep 30, 2013

I have been looking at how I am going to build a winch mount. I would be very interested in seeing your design completed. Keep the pics coming.

BigRiver · Sep 30, 2013

Been out of the garage for the past week or so, been out of town and busy elsewhere. Will try to put some time in tomorrow and get a few things done.

A few guys here have requested some plates, I'll try to accommodate everyone if I can or at least till I run out of materials. Of course I know where to find more lol!

jmoor126 · Sep 30, 2013

I will be interested in purchasing one as well. Please let me know when you are ready to sell them! Thanks!

BigRiver · Oct 2, 2013

Time has been short, but fabricated some brackets and drilled them out for a fit.
This is 1/4" steel that surrounds the tube. I know it's way over kill, but I wanted to make it stout.

bigc · Oct 2, 2013

is the winch going to mount upside down or on top of the plate ?

BigRiver · Oct 2, 2013

The winch must be mounted upside down with this plate arrangement.
The particular winch that I have is a bit long and contacts the square tubing. I'm going to have to use one inch square tubing as spacers to mount my winch.
It's not as easy as I had hoped it would be.

bigc · Oct 2, 2013

honda kinda made it hard with the tubing angled outward and not much below to attach anything to

chesterl35 · Oct 3, 2013

As long as it is a sealed winch you can mount it in any orientation ad long as it is underwound. Mine is upside down as well

BigRiver · Oct 9, 2013

Had to hit the reset button and redesign this. Have to give credit to bigc for the design idea.

Basically I used (2) 6" flat bar plates and trimmed off the areas that were in the way. I'll still probably keep the first design plate for using stiffing bars and also maybe a place to mount a light bar.
Anyway, got it mocked up today, waiting on some brackets that I ordered.

bigc · Oct 9, 2013

thats awesome bigriver you got the mount down low enough to run the wide spool pro advantage winch i think you will like it better mounted down there and it wont rake havoc on your bumper frame work its good that we can share ideas on here this is my favorite site by far

BigRiver · Oct 11, 2013

Got the winch mount brackets in today and they fit PERFECT!

ohanacreek · Oct 11, 2013

That looks awesome Riv.

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