Vantage winches are the cheap ones, with a high-strength composite gear housing and all-metal gears. ProVantage has an all-metal gear housing and all-metal gears. https://www.warn.com/atv/winches/line.jsp

 

Superwinch Terra 25 2500# ATV Winch w/Synthetic Rope | L & M Fleet Supply

With synthetic rope to boot !

 

That sounds like a good deal. It's a 700 mile drive so I would have to get it shipped. Google maps says the Mackinac bridge is closed and I would have to go through Illinois to Wisconsin, instead of through the U.P. if I drove.

 

Free shipping , save your gas . So , the Mac is closed again , all you trolls are stranded again -

 

I haven't been up there in several years. Sometimes I miss it. Any idea why the bridge is closed?

 

Falling ice -

http://www.mackinacbridge.org/fares-traffic/bridge-cam/

 

Guess we get the monsoon down here,y'all get the ice up there..

 

Yes , we are blessed - lol

 

I can swim but I can't ice skate worth a flip..

 

That sucks. One winter I crossed the bridge 5 minutes before they closed it because of high winds. They lowered the speed limit to 20 MPH for all vehicles, which I've seen before, but not a lot. I was driving a full size van and it blew me straight sideways from one lane to the other. The bridge itself was built to handle something crazy like 600 MPH winds.

ETA: It's been raining here so much today that I have less than 1 cubic foot of snow in my driveway, and it's not all in one place. The sun never shines between my shed and ATV, so there's a little bit of snow there. The rest is next to the street where it's been run over and packed down by my truck, since I haven't shoveled or plowed all winter.