milemarker pe8000

[Jim Oaks]

This link will give you different performance/speed ratings for different winches:

http://www.trsfabandoffroad.com/products/winch_performance_comparisons.htm

at a 6,000lb load, my Warn XD9000i will pull at 8.67ft/min. A Warn M8000 will pull at 9.79ft/min, the MM PE8000 will pull 6 ft/min and a MM SX9.5 will pull at 12.8 ft/min.

When you compare line speeds, look at the speeds with the same loads. Warn M8000 is rated real fast with 0 load, but only 3.79 ft/min faster than MM under load.

It would take the MM PE8000 2.04 minutes to winch 6,000lbs 20ft. It would take a MM PE8000 3.33 minutes to do the same. A MM SX9.5 could knock it down to 1.56 minutes.

 

[Todd]

As far as occasional-use winches for off-road recovery, Warn seems to be one of the better names. However, I do actually wheel my truck, and do actually use my winch, MileMarker or otherwise....

Oh I know. Was just bustin on my buddys that dont.

 

[Will]

I have had two of those cheap winches. One was a MM PE 8000 and the other a HF 8000. They are slow as hell. I used them all the time and I dreaded having to wind all the cable back in. It was painful to stand there feeding the cable as it literally inched its way into the drum. I firmly believe that both winches died of just constant grinding away from spooling the cable in. If you just want to show off a winch, they are fine. Maybe once a year you will use it. But if you need it, damn, it's not worth it. I suffered for years with those. I was to the point where I would gathe rup the cable and shove it into the passenger side window because i knew I would just have to get it out again in a couple of minutes. It's not worth the pain and suffering. They will pull hard, no question. But they are agonizing and short-lived if you use it frequently.

What I have now is a Superwinch EPi 9.0. It's extremely fast winding the cable back in--47fpm. That is my number one criteria. You usually have to pull only a few feet to rescue yourself so line speed under load doesn't mean much. You need to get the cable back in to get mobile again. But this SW is a good puller under load as well, and it's a 9,000# winch. I would say it's very similar to Jim's XD9000i, but it's a lot faster without a load on it.

It's part# 09034 and I got it for $600 with free shipping and it comes with a snatch block. I bought it from some RUbicon outfitter website I believe.

Like I said, if you aren't planning to spend a lot of time with the cable out, those two cheap winches are fine. But you will suffer if you plan to use them frequently. It's not worth it.