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350 lbs IS lite when your used to dealing with up to 350 tons, or figureing out how to slide a fully rigged up oil drill rig 20'

There is a way around the 600' cable storage on a "standard" winch, there is a type of winch that has a HIGH capiticy spool but is a fairly small unit, this unit is made to pull a small clean out pipe pig or pulling electial cable though a newly laid street conduit, it has a fairly large spool...

Any decent pilot winch CAN be REBUILT (stretched) to handle the needed 600' of 3/8" cable ( 1/4" or 5/16" HIGH STRENGTH LIFT cable most likly will work), The idel place to mount the pilot winch would be on top of the rear fairlead top plate, this way BOTH winches can be watched at the same time.

The problem with the capstains is that it is a 100% hands on, 100% of the time job that the rear winch is spooling out (work great for a TWO man crew), the powered pilot winch with a on/off switch or hyd. powered (with hyd. power, a flow control valve can be installed in the hyd. circuit for...

Your right, that 3/4" cable gets heavy FAST, Swiss (m62 owner) and I had kicked around the idea of a free wheeling electric pilot winch that could be pulled out to a snatch block then back to the rear of the wrecker, as the main winch is let out, the pilot winch would keep the main winch cable...