[inspectorudy]

When I mounted my Craftsman johnny bucket to my 1811 the length of the moment arm made a BIG difference in how much power the lift had. I you attach that winch to that short of a handle you will burn out the winch most likely. I'm not saying it won't work but it won't have much strength to do much except to position something with no load on it. It might make more sense to use the winch as a lift vertically attached to the rear of the tractor and let gravity do the downward movement. That way if you double sheaved it it would have a lot lift of power but no down power. I made an electrically operated dump rear bed on my old golf cart using one of the HF $49 winches and it worked great. The bed was about 55% over center so that the cable of the winch held the bed level and when I useed the hhand remote to lower it then it would go to the full dump position. One click of the button and back up it came. The trick was having the dump bed be 55%past the CG instead of 50/50 which would have made the load the deciding factor as to whether it would dump or not. of the bed otherwise it would not have dumped :beerchug