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Ten months ago, shortly after buying my Rincon, I put the Ramsey 3000 winch on it... the one with the wireless remote. I did this after finding out how crappy Warn is about letting you order machine-specific parts -- meaning they won't let you. You have to buy a winch in order to get the switchgear for a specific ATV, so I couldn't reuse the Warn 2500 I had on my Arctic Cat 400i that I was selling. That's when I decided to boycott Warn.
So I got the Ramsey. It was right at $400 from ATV North. I already had the winch mount from Warn that I got at the dealer. It bolted up just fine. Wiring was actually easier than a Warn because it only required sending one wire aft -- to the positive side of the battery.
The rest was all done up front. They include a waterproof brain box and a hard-wired switch in addition to the remote control box. I mounted all of it in the front on top of the winch mounting plate.
Yesterday was the first time I ever used it. Hard to believe it's been almost a year and I haven't needed it.
It worked absolutely flawlessly, and did so better than the old A2000 on my Grizzly. My lazy mounting of the hard switch down by the winch turned out to be a very good place for it, so it'll stay there. I do plan to mount another switch up near the bars someplace so I don't have to dig around for the remote if I need to be on the machine.
The best part is that the winch did NOT stall no matter what. It nearly did once, when it was faced with getting the Rinny up and over a particularly nasty rock, but it ultimately didn't. I've stalled the A2000 on my Grizzly several times.
So the bottom line here is that I HIGHLY recommend this winch!
Rob
So I got the Ramsey. It was right at $400 from ATV North. I already had the winch mount from Warn that I got at the dealer. It bolted up just fine. Wiring was actually easier than a Warn because it only required sending one wire aft -- to the positive side of the battery.
The rest was all done up front. They include a waterproof brain box and a hard-wired switch in addition to the remote control box. I mounted all of it in the front on top of the winch mounting plate.
Yesterday was the first time I ever used it. Hard to believe it's been almost a year and I haven't needed it.
It worked absolutely flawlessly, and did so better than the old A2000 on my Grizzly. My lazy mounting of the hard switch down by the winch turned out to be a very good place for it, so it'll stay there. I do plan to mount another switch up near the bars someplace so I don't have to dig around for the remote if I need to be on the machine.
The best part is that the winch did NOT stall no matter what. It nearly did once, when it was faced with getting the Rinny up and over a particularly nasty rock, but it ultimately didn't. I've stalled the A2000 on my Grizzly several times.
So the bottom line here is that I HIGHLY recommend this winch!
Rob