Attaching Winch Cables to Vehicles

Video Transcript

"Now, we're ready to hook the winch up to the vehicle. This particular model is a Warren Winch 3700 pound. That's going to work just fine, for pretty much any car or truck. A pickup truck like this, you're going to load on a vehicle. It's not going to have any problem. What we're going to do, instead of using the power source to back the cable out, we're going to flip this lever up, and we're going to prespool, which means it will let the gears in here turn free, so we can just pull the cable out the length we need it, and attach it to the vehicle. It's best when you're attaching the cable to the vehicle, if you can find a center point on the vehicle. That way, if you would have damage to a wheel or anything like that. When it pulls the vehicle on the trailer, it's going to try to keep the vehicle, in the center of the trailer. On this particular car, we're going to wrap the cable around the K-frame, or the engine cradle, which obviously, is a very strong point. After we do that, we're going to bring it back, and slide the cable in this hook. Now, one thing you want to keep in mind. This lever is supposed to hold that cable in, but usually if you pull them them once, they don't work too well. You can use a rubber band, a piece of tape. I use a small bungee cord like this, and I'm going to wrap this around the cable, and the hook, because whenever we're pulling that vehicle up, if there's any slack, you don't want the hook to fall off, and also your vehicle comes off the trailer, unexpectedly, so I'm going to put this cable in here. We would have this close to the frame. Then, I'm going to wrap the cable to the hook, secure it, and we're ready to go. It can't fall off."