Short Winch Bar

I like a shorter bar so I just simply cut mine down to my liking with a saw. Not sure how short your looking to get it but I only cut around 10 inches off mine, works great for me.

 

I use a ratchet bar when i pull a step deck, saves time from taking bar out after every click

 

There's a ratchet insert for the winch available, the name escapes me at the moment.

 

Silver Cap?



I wouldn't cut the bar shorter. You want to keep the leverage. A ratcheting winch bar would be cost effective.

 

This is close but there was one that inserted into existing winch transforming it into a ratcheting winch. They were about $35 a pop iirc.

 

I ran a lo-profile, trombone, step deck for quite a while... I know the pain. I had the perfect combo tool for that. It was a ~2 foot long, 1 inch diameter, six-sided, solid bar; especially useful on the drop-deck winches when the load was wider than the trailer (which was... always).

It also worked great for slipping through wheel holes and then hitting the end with a hammer to loosen frozen brakes (no crawling under trailers).

 

Quick winch.buy the attachememts and weld them the winches

 

Those ratchet winches are the bomb. But they don't hold up very well in the weather.

Pack spares if you go that route.

I don't know how you would cut the bar shorter unless you never use chains and binders. Or pack a spare. They're certainly cheap enough.