It's funny, right after I bought my toy, I got the front winch. Had a blast putting it in, but the whole time my wife was bugging me, do we really need a winch?
On our first ride just after May long last year, we went out on our own. Found a long shallow water/mud track. Felt ok to walk through. Well we made it about 2/3 the way through and it sunk, the mud interfaced with the skid plate and we stopped. So I run the winch out to the tree, grab my tree saver and proceed to set it up. Found out quickly that this tree too large around, and my cable is at the end with a too short tree saver. I had to use a rotten tree beside this one. It pulled it out, and my wife has nothing more to say about the need for a winch!!