This winch came in handy quite a bit yesterday. I got my trailer stuck in the mud trying to get out of a lot. It had been sitting in mud for a few days and it was stuck hard and my truck couldn’t get enough traction to pull it out. I have it attatched to the front of it and I was able to hook it to the truck and pulled it out by hand! I don’t know how strong this really is, but I feel that pull was more than 600 lbs.