Review on SoB Boat Trailer Winch 3200Lbs, Boat Winch With Strap And Safety Hook, 10M (32Ft) - Hand Winch, 2 Way Ratchet And 2 Speed Hand Crank Winch - 4:1/8:1 Gear Ratio, Come Along Winch For ATV UTV SUV by Dan Phillips

Worth the money. I am using it to hoist roofing materials up a ladder (lots of youtube videos showing how to do it with small hoist).The only problem I have had was with the EMERGENCY SHUT OFF SWITCH. It can bump against something and of course the thing won't work until you pull out the switch. The problem it that mine is very, very hard to pull back out. You have to rotate the red knob in the directions of the arrow, but it can still take me a while to get it back out enough to run.Today i went to use it, and the hoist just "chattered" (odd buzzing sound) but no movement. I tried the remedy another reviewer mentioned about the stop switch issue. (he posted a photo of a fix with a screwdriver to the switch issue). Well that wasn't it.It turned out to be the emergency (red knob) shut off switch, apparently partially depressed. In the past the emergency switch would completely shut it off, but now it was like partial voltage or something, and it would chatter but not run. I fought with the emergency switch for about 30 seconds, rotating and pulling out, and then it worked smoothly. Odd, the knob didn't seem to pull out any farther visually, but it fixed it.Like any of these hoist, you must let ALL of the line out, and carefully roll it in under light tension (hands with gloves) and lay the cable in a very neat coil with no open gaps or funky overlaps, so the next winding has something smooth to run on or it will bend the cable going over uneven surfaces.If you let all the tension off the cable, it will loosen on the spool and turn to chaos.Not a fault of this hoist, that is what they all do, on a jeep, or whatever. So that is a maintenance piece, to run the line all the way out and carefully place it as it runs back in, and leave a small 5 lb weight or whatever to keep some tension on the line when not in use. it is a good hoist for the money. Does what it is supposed to.