Project Farm Winch Test

[Camaroboi13]

So they are THE DEFINITIVE testers and their test are the best?

Project Farm? Yes, absolutely. ?? ?

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[OM Jeep]

Yup, another utuber looking for clicks and attention. For every one like this, I'll find you one or two others that prove it's just fine.
I chuckle every time one of these "evaluations" or "comparisons" comes up.
I especially love it when these guys say "let's settle this" LOL - right.
So they are THE DEFINITIVE testers and their test are the best?

You seriously don’t know who this is? Get learnt.

 

[Lunentucker]

All Chinese winches. Are there any American made winches?
The guy seriously does a really good job in testing things head to head. He goes to great lengths to make sure that the tests mimick real world use scenarios and that each competitor is treated fairly. He uses instruments that I didn't know existed.
Until I see something better, he's the guy.

 

[Lunentucker]

Answered my own question.
https://ramseywinch.net/product/patriot-profile-12000-2/

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Answered my own question.
https://ramseywinch.net/product/patriot-profile-12000-2/

Should we try to delete this post?

 

[Camaroboi13]

Answered my own question.
https://ramseywinch.net/product/patriot-profile-12000-2/

For that price I’ll take seven winches from Amazon

 

[bleda2002]

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All Chinese winches. Are there any American made winches?
The guy seriously does a really good job in testing things head to head. He goes to great lengths to make sure that the tests mimick real world use scenarios and that each competitor is treated fairly. He uses instruments that I didn't know existed.
Until I see something better, he's the guy.

The higher end warn zeons are USA made and have the better warranty.

 

[Jefe1018]

Yup, another utuber looking for clicks and attention. For every one like this, I'll find you one or two others that prove it's just fine.
I chuckle every time one of these "evaluations" or "comparisons" comes up.
I especially love it when these guys say "let's settle this" LOL - right.
So they are THE DEFINITIVE testers and their test are the best?

A lot of YouTube is somewhat better than most of what is broadcast on TV nowadays in my opinion.

Like anything, I try to take nothing as an absolute and just take some entertainment value from it. I personally enjoy Project Farm for some of their insights and c’mon, when would an average Joe like me be able to buy expensive winches to see when they’ll give way?

 

[dcmdon]

All Chinese winches. Are there any American made winches?
The guy seriously does a really good job in testing things head to head. He goes to great lengths to make sure that the tests mimick real world use scenarios and that each competitor is treated fairly. He uses instruments that I didn't know existed.
Until I see something better, he's the guy.

He uses the most consistent and repeatable testing methods I've seen in general.

though it appears he is't really knowledgeable about winches (he should have tested the HF Apex), that doesn't really matter.

The other thing that many here haven't really acknowledged is that the $289 winch worked fine until he tried to drag 3 things up a hill.

If all you have is $325 and a receiver hitch, then it's better than nothing. Much better. Not everyone has money to burn.

In my case, I don't want the weight of a winch on the front. I also spend winters in a salty hell hole where I would rather not have the winch attached all the time.

 

[Bonanza]

I would bet my life on my harbor freight winch. It has never let me down, ever. Your results may vary.

 

[mgw750]

Answered my own question.
https://ramseywinch.net/product/patriot-profile-12000-2/

I have one, Would have loved to see one in this review but the price difference between them is enormous.

 

[mx5red]

Yup, another utuber looking for clicks and attention. For every one like this, I'll find you one or two others that prove it's just fine.
I chuckle every time one of these "evaluations" or "comparisons" comes up.
I especially love it when these guys say "let's settle this" LOL - right.
So they are THE DEFINITIVE testers and their test are the best?

You should watch some of his reviews. He actually uses scientific method and tests/compares tools with objective data.

 

[Hootbro]

Project Farm is about as useful as if Wile E. Coyote was running a test lab.

 

[TroutFishingInAmerica]

Project Farm is about as useful as if Wile E. Coyote was running a test lab.

He has 2.82 million subscribers to his channel, so there's at least one or two people that like what he is doing. Maybe this test was flawed but it still wasn't useless.
Shackles and cable that were used for overhead cranes and skidding logs were the first pile of shit that was adapted for 4X4 recovery. They had a working load limit "rating" and a huge safety factor built-in, the safety factor was sometimes as high as 5-6X the working load limit. The new pile of crap is the junk made specifically for the 4X4 recovery crowd and there's no real standard. When these sales people say that thier equipment is "rated" at a certain amount of pounds, it usually means the failure rate, no safety factor built-in.
So we can walk away with something useful, it wasn't a useless test. The winch mounting plate was "rated" beyond the "rated" capacity of the winch and was ruined and distorted beyond further use but some would say technically didn't fail, hey, it remains in one piece. So choose your mounting plate wisely. The rope rating isn't the working rating of days of old with a safety factor built-in, but it's the failure rating, and it's possible to fail before you reach that rating, as seen in the video. So you can poo poo Project Farm, I learn more from the fail then the success. To me all the winchs tested all looked like they would be sufficient for occasional recovery, the test was good to see some boundaries.

 

[Bonanza]

Project Farm is about as useful as if Wile E. Coyote was running a test lab.

I respectfully disagree. Whether or not you find the demonstrations to be something you find as a compelling way to distinguish similar products, I find his content to be interesting, entertaining, and fairly objective in the administration of "tests" he puts the products through. His reviews are not stamped in the constitution as end-all, be-all settlements on which product is "best", but instead a guy arranging a series of similar products and seeing how they compare.

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