Accessories

A wireless winch remote is bought on plug pattern first, brand second. WARN truck winches run a 5-wire control pack; small utility winches run 3-wire; Mile Marker uses its own 4-pin plug; WARN’s VR EVO uses a 4-pin plug with a microcontroller that standard kits cannot drive at all — which is why the famous

A mounting plate is the least glamorous part of a winch install and the one that decides whether the winch’s rating means anything: the plate and its bolts carry every pound of pull into the vehicle, and a plate that flexes misaligns the drum and chews rope. This guide is for FIXED plates on trucks

A shackle is a small part asked to hold the largest forces in the system — in a double-line rig, the shackle on the block can see up to twice the winch’s pull (the doctrine in our snatch block guide). So this guide grades shackles the way riggers do: by the design factor behind the

A tree saver does two jobs: it spreads the anchor load across a wide, flat strap so the rope or chain you would otherwise wrap around a trunk does not cut through bark into the cambium and kill the tree (GearAmerica’s own care manual states the mechanism plainly) — and it becomes the anchor link

A winch cover is really about your rope. Sunlight degrades every synthetic fibre over time — Samson Rope’s own care guidance ties UV exposure to strength loss, and even its UV-stabilised AmSteel-Blue is “resistant, not immune” — and the outer drum wraps a cover protects are the working part of the line. Add road grit,