NEW! OEM Front Bumper Winch Receiver Mounts!

[CasaDelGato]

Great solution if you can find a 12,000lb winch for the truck that will run off the trucks energy, but our experience is that a winch draws much more pawer faster than the truck can drop through the back.

So, where are you getting the 12v power for your 12,000lb winch?
That is likely to be well over 100A, which is only 1200 watts.
If you can find a 240v AC motor for the winch, you can get over 10x that power.

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[CYBERTRUCKco]

So, where are you getting the 12v power for your 12,000lb winch?
That is likely to be well over 100A, which is only 1200 watts.
If you can find a 240v AC motor for the winch, you can get over 10x that power.

We used a H9-AGM mounted in the Frunk with a anderson plug hidden in the bumper

 

[CasaDelGato]

We used a H9-AGM mounted in the Frunk with a anderson plug hidden in the bumper

I take it there is also a battery charger? (where does it get it's power?)

 

[CYBERTRUCKco]

I take it there is also a battery charger? (where does it get it's power?)

We ran a line from the rear to the front and on the Rubicon rig we charged off the solar hood, it never needed the vehicle power. We charge $1000 to put it together as kit with mounting brackets.

The guys at Tesla, who gave us this idea, just had the battery loose in the frunk and had a battery tender type deal in the bed if they needed to charge it on the trail.

 

[Cyberskunk]

You need to spin these off into a plow mount.

 

[CYBERTRUCKco]

You need to spin these off into a plow mount.

our XO front winch bar will work with the OEM bumper with a little trimming

 

[Langestreet]

This seems like a great way to load any number of things on the front. You could have a bull bar, winches, plow, removable light bar, or whatever.
Is there any information on the amount of vertical load that these points can take? I'm sure the horizontal load is commensurate with the weight of the truck, similar to the rear point.

 

[BrockN]

You need to spin these off into a plow mount.

My understanding has always been that a plow of any reasonable size needs to be mounted to the frame, preferably with some sort of plate or multi-point attachment system that will distribute the impact load. Plowing is pretty brutal on pickup trucks and anyone serious about doing it will say you need an F-350 to do it for very long...

If you were doing your paved driveway very carefully, these mount points might survive, but I'd be cautious about using them.

 

[Cyberskunk]

our XO front winch bar will work with the OEM bumper with a little trimming

That will work for 2" reciever plows like people have been running on the rear to do their place or like 1 or 2 properties.

 

[Cyberskunk]

My understanding has always been that a plow of any reasonable size needs to be mounted to the frame, preferably with some sort of plate or multi-point attachment system that will distribute the impact load. Plowing is pretty brutal on pickup trucks and anyone serious about doing it will say you need an F-350 to do it for very long...

If you were doing your paved driveway very carefully, these mount points might survive, but I'd be cautious about using them.

There are F150 size plows and there are F350 size plows.

I would not do a large commercial operation with a F150.... If someone wants to do their home drive and a relative or two nearby... a pretty basic plow like this F150 Lightning with tow hook replacing mounts will work.

 

[mitch9]

You need to spin these off into a plow mount.

Yes, I have been eying a low cost plow, to clear my driveway.. This one seems promising, and uses a 2" receiver, so an adapter to a single centered receiver is all that would be needed.. I am not trying to plow commercially, just my 130' driveway. It will already work on the rear hitch, but I prefer to plow moving forward, lol

https://plowser.com/products/plowser

 

[BrockN]

There are F150 size plows and there are F350 size plows.

I would not do a large commercial operation with a F150.... If someone wants to do their home drive and a relative or two nearby... a pretty basic plow like this F150 Lightning with tow hook replacing mounts will work.

I looked at some photos of the structure under the stainless skin. And I'm thinking about the rear hitch failure that that YouTube idiot made a fortune on. That failure was from a very significant impact, not from too much of a pull (tension), so anything that applies a torque or shear force to the aluminum needs to be considered differently, at least IMHO.

At the very least, I think a serious connection between the two tow hook connection points, to tie them together, would be a reasonable design improvement.

Of course, I'm looking at this from the perspective of, if I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right. I'd be plowing a long, rough gravel driveway and the snowfall would often be fairly significant. If 30 cm drops while I'm sleeping, I'm not going to look out the window in the morning and say "oh well, that's too much to plow, I guess we'll just stay inside until it melts..."

So whatever I end up doing, it will be a compromise as you infer. I'd just want to maximize plowing capability without destroying the truck.

 

[Cyberskunk]

While plowing its going to be primarily pushing on the frame. The hitch adapters will be pushed into the face of the frame for the most part and good plows have trip springs that will tip the blade if the edge makes contact with something hard enough.

No need to tie the two hook points together unless you are running the single point mount reciever hitch plow.

The youtuber(s) who I hope OD's or gets locked up..... well one of them chained down the front end so the truck could not do a wheelie instead of break and the other wailed on that entire truck intentionally trying to break everything like what happened to his 2" reciever at diddys.

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