Yes the winch is a truly multi use tool. Mine has done allot of recovery work early in it's life on my Gen1. That wonderful rig found itself in some serious muck, not to mention up on a table rock in the middle of a stream. That was interesting that once I got the rig hung up with all four wheels dangling, the rig was still bumper deep in water. My friends little bronco could not pull me back.
Another nasty, side trail off the pipeline, down a steep to a foot bridge, there was a path to drive around the bridge. We walked the flat heavily wooded are for some distance and decided to go for it. Had we walked a bit further we might have discovered we really did not want to be there. Next thing we found I was rolled driver side deep to the windows, and Gary had come in far enough to get stuck as well. That ended up with my 30' strap between the rigs and running the cable out, at times with my 20' strap to reach trees. Over three hours till we got to an upslope and the trees had enough space between them to get through. That was a long day, I was bingo fuel by the time we figure out where in hill we were since this was long before GPS. I had Loran, but that was nuts to figure out and useless if you were not carrying the charts.
