Hidden winch bumpers

Been using bumper mounted winches since my first Ramsey on my High School truck in the 70s and have a stupid question.

All the front bumper winches I like are “Hidden Winches”, I don’t trust a wireless one as I already had one on my 2016 that would eat up batteries and then you had to plug in the winch controller. Then turn the know to free spool out then back to operate winch.

2nd How do you undo a tangle or ensure they are spooling up correctly. I called the A.D.D. people at their factory and they were zero help and almost rude because I asked these questions.

I didn’t want a huge bumper on the front that looked like Jay Leno’s chin sticking out.

So I guess it’s either A hidden winch or large protruding one?

 

I have the SDHQ hidden winch mount on my truck. I also have a wireless remote for now but agree that running a wireless remote your having to put trust in batteries. I plan to install a remote plug jumper to replace the wireless and run a wired remote. For the "free spool knob" i just cut out enough of the bottom grill to reach in and turn it. I dont plan to deep six my truck so crawling under water to unspool is not a worry. I always spool the cable out and walk it back in after use to straighten out what happened when i winched because regardless how the winch is mounted its going to spool how it wants with a load on. Dont know if this will help any but thats my experience with hidden winches.

 

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