RUGCEL WINCH New 1100lb Folding Truck-Mounted Crane, with Electric Winch 3500 lb 12V, Painted Steel Pickup Truck Jib Cranes 360 Swivel Lift Electric Hoist

I do hvac for a living and a few weeks ago i threw out my back setting a unit. That night after some ibuprofen and a whiskey I did some googling to solve this problem and discovered these lifts. I immediately bought one. It was shipped very nicely in a sturdy crate. All parts were there. I made a few modifications to make it quick disconnect to my trailer. And it works fantastic. Turns out I didn't read the whole add and was pleasantly surprised when it included 2 wireless remotes for winch control as well as the tradition wired. Total assembly time including modifications was 4 hrs with 3 people. Great product would highly recommend it.

You ask why I'm disappointed because when you look at the pictures of this product the one for the video shows a quick removal design base so when not in use you can take it down so it does not get damage by the weather or get stolen this is the reason I picked this particular crane I thought that was a really nice feature because I new I would not be using it all the time so when not in use I could easily take it down so that's why I'm disappointed. When you look at these cranes they appear to be very similar in look and design and there's one seller name is Rock-Hulk and on they sell this one crane with the removal base design and it looks just like this one

I mounted this winch in the back of my Isuzu NPR dump. I use it to lift 200+ lb 35 gallon totes of food scraps. It will handle much more than this weight. Sturdy build. The only thing that you will need to do is put some kind of cover over the wiring at the winch if you are going to use it out in the elements

Update: The customer service for the supplier (provided by Amazon) committed to send the missing parts but has not done that. I am still waiting, a month later.Original: The lift arm crane arrived and it is pretty stout with good welds and good construction. I have not installed the winch and it did come with some bolts and a lot of necessary wiring.I have contacted the supplier about some missing parts (the pulley and related spacers) and heard back once but have not heard back about a solution after the first response. So, without a pulley assembly it is virtually useless. Their customer service is lacking.For the bolts for the base, I had to drill out the holes and buy 1" bolts to support this lift arm crane. It came with rather small bolts that were too thin and too short for my application.

Awesome crane for the price. Handles full 50 gallon drums with ease. Makes it easy for one person to load and unload heavy objects.

This crane itself seems fine except cable jumps off the sheave.(minor issue)Biggest issue is that the foot is too small, so it exerts a huge force on the truck bed. We were careful to bolt to the cross beams in our truck bed; but still lifting just a 140 pound propane tank with arm set to the 2nd position the crane tips forward. We added a 2ft x 3ft x 1/2" steel plate. So, we are wary of it all

Looks good and works as advertised. The instructions need revision. Instructions refer to items not utilized on the Speedometer. There was an excessive amount of wire for my application, so there was a lot of bundling and tie wrapping going on.. The "inverter" supplied was something new to me, so it took a few extra minutes to figure out the correct way to wire everything. For my car, I connected the white from the inverter to the white wire from the Power distribution cable and joined those two white wires to an existing dash light wire. That takes care of the lighting. Then join the black (ground) wires, again one from the Power distribution cable and one from the Inverter and connect them to a good ground on the vehicle--you probably have a good ground on one of your other gauges. Then for the Red wire from the power distribution cable---connect it to a power source that is on when the ignition key is turned on. I did not use the "hot start" wiring. The antennae wire is very long, giving plenty of options to mount the antennae. I have an open cab--no top or windows, so I mounted the antennae on the steering column up near the steering wheel. Picks up the signal very fast. The lighting for the unit is good. The system to fasten the speedometer to the dash is great, like a screw-on jar lid. If the install instruction were better, I would probably give it 5 stars.By the way, I never did figure out what the turn signals, high beam reference had to do with the speedometer.

After a full disassembly and rewelding some of the more important connections and greasing the dry bearings it seems to work fine. I guess I could have used it the way it was but some of those weld were scarry. Is a couple tablespoons of grease to much to ask ?