#BestWinches

If you are an experienced off-roader, you have likely used a winch more than a few times. If you have vast experience pulling yourself or others out of sticky situations, you have likely had a traditional winch hook slip and cause an even bigger problem. The little safety latch that holds a rope or cable in place will help in some situations, but that piece is not load bearing, so if the line shifts, that little latch quickly breaks. When that happens, you can suddenly lose your load, but this can be prevented with a closed system winching set up from Factor 55.

If you spend much of your free time off-roading with your truck or SUV, the odds are good that you are familiar with closed system winching products like the lineup offered by Factor 55. If you are not, you should be, as closed system winching is safer, preventing the cable or D-ring from shifting against the passive latch in a traditional winch hook. The closed system winching components also look a whole lot nicer than the hook that came with your winch, tucking neatly against your fairlead.

If you enjoy off-roading with friends, the odds are good that one of the people who takes on Mother Nature in a specially-prepared vehicle has a winch mounted on their rig. Even the most capable off-road machines will occasionally get into a situation from which they cannot escape, so they need to be pulled. In some cases, another vehicle can just hook up a tow strap and drive away, pulling the stuck vehicle free, but there are situations in which an off-roader may not have the space needed to pull another vehicle free. When that happens, the only option is to pull the stuck truck with a winch.