What is a good size winch for a lifted f150 extended cab 4x4?

 

The bigger the better, I think the biggest out there is a 12000 lbs.

Mine has the built in compressor.

 

that looks like a nice one
how much did that run you ?

 

lil over 1,200.

 

was it about 1500$?

 

lol my bad, edited previous post.

There are only 3 kinds of people in this world those who can count and those who can't.

 

OG, what do you think about cable vs rope???

 

Synthetic Winch Rope is way much better. If the cable were to breaks and you close to it, it can kill you; not so with synthetic rope.

This is what I'll be purchasing sooner than later. http://www.masterpull.com/item.cfm?itemid=46488

http://www.masterpull.com/cpage.cfm?cpid=478

 

Minimum of 8500 lbs.
As a general rule a winch should be 1.5 of the weight of the vehicle being recovered. If your truck, and everything onboard, weighs 5000lbs, you should have a 7500lbs winch, if your truck weighs 6000lbs, you should have a 9000lbs winch.

 

Great info, thanks!!! I want to eventually put one on mine but I am not going anywhere near your height so putting out in front wouldn't look anywhere near as good as your setup. I want to be able to get myself out from the snow up here, just in case...

Once the $$ is there I think I want to get the warn hidden setup but I didn't know what to do about restringing it with the rope. Thanks for the links...