[PNW Outdoors]

Hey new to the forum so this is my first post and happy to be here!!

I have a 1992 Foreman TRX 350 and I'm looking to mount a winch on it. I cant seem to find a kit or any custom fab jobs/builds for my front end style. If anyone has a winch mounted to the same front end any help would be much appreciated as to what it looks like/how its done or ideas in general!

Ive attached a couple pictures of my bike for reference,

Thanks in advance!

 

[sublime68charger]

Sharp looking Bike you have. For that vintage foreman your best bet gonna be to put the winch up on the front rack.
this is my 02 foreman and that little WarnA2000 winch has gotten me out of many a tigh spot as you can see in this pic.

 

[PNW Outdoors]

Sharp looking Bike you have. For that vintage foreman your best bet gonna be to put the winch up on the front rack.
this is my 02 foreman and that little WarnA2000 winch has gotten me out of many a tigh spot as you can see in this pic.

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Thank you! Yeah its a beauty for sure, feels like you're bronc riding when on it but I'll take that tradeoff for the reliability any day.

Good looking set up there, thats most likely how I'll end up mounting my winch as well unless I figure out an alternative by the new year!

Thanks for the response I appreciate it

 

[sublime68charger]

PNW, no problem for the old old 350's there is not a bolt on made winch mount that I have ever seen. They may be out there but your asking about a ATV thats going on 30 years old.

I like the rack mount winch as you can keep the winch line from bird's nesting alot easier.

I have 4 ATV's with winch's and If I need the winch line to pull this or that I use this winch the most as its easy to get spooled back up. I guess the other 3 that are front mounted 2 are ropes which I like alot better than cable. The one cable one that is front mounted I only use when I need to self rescue that ATV and then its a 2 pearson job to respool that one back up nice and neat.

only draw back to the front mount rack winch is if your trying to pull yourself out of a mud hole it will plow the front end down unless you can hook your anchor end higher than the winch on the rack.

What is your winch usage?

Self ATV rescue 1/3 of the time? Front Rack mount not ideal if you can't get the end of the winch higher than rack mount.
Pulling out other ATV's 1/3 of the time? This works best as if your hooking to rear of another ATV your winch is pulling up on said ATV to help it out of the hole it is in.

Using to lift a snowplow up/down 1/3 of the time? I Used the Rack mount winch for 3 years before I got the Electric Actuator and was able to keep a eye on the winch cable from getting bunched up on the drum worked great. I just wanted down pressure on the ATV plow for backdraging snow away from garage doors.