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Will, I did the first installation using a cherry picker as I wasn't sure how things were going to come together. Now that I got the tow bar centered and snugged down, if I need to remove the tow bar, I loosen the adjusting nuts to get some slack in the chains, and slide one end out of the chain...

Mike, that's that old med. tow bar you found for me last year at tower park. It cleaned up good. I stripped off all the old paint and rust, and gave it a new grade 8 hinge bolt and a little paint. Probably the best 60 bucks I've spent in a long time.

I agree. The axle clamps were NOS and the chains were soaked in cosmoline, real sticky stuff that was hard to get off. I got most of the external stuff off, but internally there is still a lot of grease. But my concern is for the external chain surface. I got some good silicone spray for the...

It is a heavy piece of equipment, so the first time I loaded it I used my cherry picker. In an emergency in the field I could load it one side at a time.

Thanks cattlerepairman, in the archives there were some who mentioned that max weight was reached with the tow bar and winch, others didn't think it was a problem. I don't plan on going past that max weight. But I will be keeping an eye out for anything that looks or sounds out of the ordinary...

Appendix to first post.

There are quite a few posts in the archives on this subject, and I read through quite a few of them, and watched a few You Tube vids as well, before coming up with this idea. As with others who posted on the subject of front bumper tow bar mounts, one of my main reasons was to get the 100+ pound...