It's not a recovery winch, it's an adjustable hammock tensioner.
Good eye Ableguy, that is not a dog!
The winches on dad and I's F250s don't get used a lot...It would be cool to discover the purpose. It might be used to recover a surf boat at the beach. It might be used way more often than the 16K synthetic winch on the duramax diesel dually with an RTT....
Not sure what they used this winch for. It certainly wasn't anything to do with self recovery.
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