I highly recommend a Come-A-Long as your first winch:
http://www.cvfsupplycompany.com/hanpowpulcom.html
These are inexpensive and 'normally' will work anytime, anywhere. even
if you get a powered winch after, they do die and wear out at the worst
of times, so I always have and recommend others have the hand winch
along as backup.
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
"Patrick ΤΏΤ" wrote:
>
> Good thing for me is she cant drive a stick :-). Got it in the mud today,
> found out first thing to buy for it is a winch. I did the stupid thing and
> stoped in mud, wanted to test the tires, not as good as I hoped. Went and
> got one of the tractors to pull it out, and got it stuck too. Had to get a
> second tractor to push the first to take slack off tow strap, then had to
> use chain and lengthen everything. Second tractor is new, so had better
> tires. It pulled it out without much trouble. Kaki does look pretty good
> with mud. Now I just have to wait until next weekend to see how it does on
> dry trails. Already have 500 miles on it and Love It.
>
> Patrick
> ΤΏΤ
>
> "jbjeep" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Now...all she has to do is get the keys away from you! =)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 23 May 2005 08:28:44 -0400, "Patrick ΤΏΤ"
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>She loves the color of mud, she almost cried when we gave them the keys
> >>>to
> >>>my 02. Yellow and mud go good together, now to just find out what kaki
> >>>and
> >>>mud look like.
> >>>
> >>>Patrick
> >>>ΤΏΤ
> >>>
> >>>"Patrick" > wrote in message
> ...
> >>>>i hope you wife will like the color of the mud on that new toy !!!
> >>>>
> >>>> lol
> >>>>
> >>>> Pat
> >>>>
> >>>> "Patrick ΤΏΤ" > a ιcrit dans le
> >>>> message
> >>>> de news: ...
> >>>>>I asked the dealer if they could switch tops, but my wife said no she
> >>>>>like
> >>>>>the matching colors. That solved that, she let me get the jeep so I
> >>>>>didn't want to push my luck. How many rubicons did you end up getting?
> >>>>>I
> >>>>>remember you have trouble with atleast one that DC replaced for you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Patrick
> >>>>> ΤΏΤ
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Nathan W. Collier" > wrote in message
> >>>>> ...
> >>>>>> congratulations patrick, thats awesome. youll grow to love the
> >>>>>> khaki, i
> >>>>>> sure did. its my favorite color i think. i would have got my '05
> >>>>>> rubicon in khaki (just like my '03 was) had it been available with
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> black top.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Nathan W. Collier
> >>>>>> http://7SlotGrille.com
> >>>>>> http://UtilityOffRoad.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Patrick ΤΏΤ" > wrote in message
> >>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>> Went to the Stealership today to see what they had, they had already
> >>>>>>> sold the red unlimited rubi a few weeks earlier, and they had a kaki
> >>>>>>> one on the lot. It had all the options I wanted, but hadn't thought
> >>>>>>> about the kaki, but my wife said she liked it, so I looked at it a
> >>>>>>> little closer. It is the 6 spd, so I took it for a test drive. It
> >>>>>>> drove Great. Went back to the dealership and salesman wanted to talk
> >>>>>>> money. I had been talking to a different dealer for a while and
> >>>>>>> they
> >>>>>>> couldn't get the money where I wanted it. an hour later I traded in
> >>>>>>> my
> >>>>>>> 2002 X and drove away in a Kaki Rubicon Unlimited. I guess it is my
> >>>>>>> wifes fault since I was going to wait and find a Red one. Only one
> >>>>>>> thing I don't like is already running 2K RPM's in 6th at 50.
> >>>>>>> Mileage
> >>>>>>> is going to suffer I guess. Guess that is what happens when you go
> >>>>>>> from
> >>>>>>> 3.07 gears to 4.11. Tires were about the same, I had 31 inch BFG
> >>>>>>> A/T's
> >>>>>>> on the other, these equate to about 30 and 1/2 inches.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Patrick
> >>>>>>> ΤΏΤ
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >