Thread: Electric trailer winch

Spray your bunks with silicone, but be careful. Boat will slide on easy but will also slide off too.

While an electric can be handy, you would have to wire it, add a battery to the trailer, or run heavy gauge wire from the front of your truck to power it.

Consider a Fulton F2 2 speed winch, and slip-on rubber boots to wear when launching and/or loading.

With the F2 in granny gear, it takes hardly any effort to winch my fiberglass boat up to the roller.

Originally Posted by speckfinder

While an electric can be handy, you would have to wire it, add a battery to the trailer, or run heavy gauge wire from the front of your truck to power it.

Consider a Fulton F2 2 speed winch, and slip-on rubber boots to wear when launching and/or loading.

With the F2 in granny gear, it takes hardly any effort to winch my fiberglass boat up to the roller.

Yes, the winch is the easy part. The wiring not so much. I use to have one. I ran heavy wire from the battery to the back of my truck to a dryer socket mounted up under the "gunnels" as far as possible. A dryer plug on the end of the winch wires and I was all set. Just plug and go. Don't forget to put a fuse or breaker on the truck wire at the battery.

I used an electric winch with a portable power supply. It was the type with an air compressor and 12v power outlet. I also have used a lawn tractor battery; the type you can buy at Home Depot. With this setup I could tow with other vehicles and add air to a tire with low air pressure. Something you might notice at 4 am when duck hunting. The winch was a Dutton Lainson Strongarm 4000. It was controlled with a spring loaded toggle switch. My remote was a piece of paracord that floated. The paracord was tied to short section (approx 1 inch) of spring (the type that was used to close the old wooden screen doors). The spring fit over the toggle switch. You pulled the cord to retrieve the boat. I had a screw on a guide post to hang the cord on while I attached the winch strap to the bow eye. Worked fine.

I have a Dutton Lainson Strongarm 4000 on the trailer for the last 10 years and still going strong. I have a dodge ram with the fifth wheel electrical attachment on the bumper. All I did was go to Fleet Farm and bought the attachment to the electrical connection on the bumber, changed the attachment on the winch and I was ready to go. That strongarm has really held up over the years! I will never go back to hand winching again. I use to just drive the boat on the trailer till a Game Warden had a conversation with me.

Originally Posted by midnight508

I have a Dutton Lainson Strongarm 4000 on the trailer for the last 10 years and still going strong. I have a dodge ram with the fifth wheel electrical attachment on the bumper. All I did was go to Fleet Farm and bought the attachment to the electrical connection on the bumber, changed the attachment on the winch and I was ready to go. That strongarm has really held up over the years! I will never go back to hand winching again. I use to just drive the boat on the trailer till a Game Warden had a conversation with me.

Not sure how you are running a 40A winch on the trailer plug. Or do you have a different kind of plug?

I have a different plug. The plug they use for pulling the house trailers with brakes. Not the 4 prong standard trailer wire.

just putting this out there have you thought of a auto latch device. something like:

Boat2Trailer | Boat Latch | Ramp N Clamp | Boat Load System

if you can power up to the latch itll lock in place