What winch and winch mount?

I'm very familiar with winches and winching, my last was a Warn M8000 on a recently sold rig, regardless i'm also a fan of not reinventing the wheel. To that end i'm wondering what the CJ2A community likes for utility and recovery work?

Do I need an 8000k winch? 5-6000k good enough? 1.5x-2x the weight of the loaded rig is the rule still, right?

Any good off-the-shelf mounting plates that look fairly stock?

I like warn and ramsey...but open to other setups.

Edited by bigdaddy13 - 10 May 2017 at 4:50pm

I used a Warn 6000 on a 2A for many years with nary a wimper out of it..

Takes up less space than an 8000 ......just my opinion.

I used a Warn 13910 mount kit and a Warn M8000 winch on my 1949 CJ2A. It looks and works great!

I have been using a 5000 lb Bad Lands winch from Harbor Freight for the past 6 years and it has done a great job. What ever winch you use you will probably have to make your own mount. 

PTO vs. electric is the primary winch debate.

In our group, everybody has winches. We usually don't need them except to pull somebody in another group out. If we need to help somebody, It's always the PTO hooked to them. Not much chance of overheating and my Koenig has more cable on it so I can do longer pulls.
The old Lakeview M 6000 on the Commando has done everything asked of it.
The winches on both Jeeps were on them when I bought them.
I did do the welding on my neighbors CJ7 winch mount. Mostly steel plate and angle iron. His design. It isn't pretty but it can fight.

Even though I have an electric winch on my Jeep, I prefer a PTO. I have a Warn M8000 because back in 2013, a fellow board member told me about a sale on them via Amazon with free shipping....and Warn had a $100.00 rebate promotion too. It was just too good of a deal to pass up. I think if you are going to have an electric winch, Warn makes a good one. In fact, Realdeal (Dave) is the person who told me about the great deal on Amazon.

Edited by Lemield - 16 May 2017 at 2:17pm

Warn, electric

Edited by masscj2a - 16 May 2017 at 11:51am

I went through the PTO versus electric debate in the late 60's.  A point where I'm sure there were far more PTO options than electric.  I decided then that the Belleview was not only the easiest to mount but also very well suited to a CJ.  The Belleview 6000 that I purchased used in 1969 for my CJ 5 is still on it and has had nary a problem in the intervening 48 years.  It was routinely used to skid firewood logs along with self extraction and pulling other rigs out.