At Winches Online we are often asked about winches to pull your toys into the shed or garage. The most common query we get is something like this: "My boat weighs 2 tonnes, so do I need a 2 tonne winch?"
Winches are generally rated by their line pull capacity, meaning the weight the winch capable of lifting vertically as a dead weight of that capacity. So whilst your boat may weigh 2 tonnes, if you are just pulling it into the garage, you are not lifting it as a dead weight.
When putting a boat or caravan in the garage, it will usually be on a trailer or a carriage that transfers much of the weight to the ground with also makes this weight transportable on wheels as a rolling load.
This means that a 2 tonne winch is probably overkill.
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