Adding a winch to your vehicle is a great idea. There are lots of reasons to do so, too. It gives you a self-contained way to recover your vehicle from a traction-loss incident, also known as getting ...

Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

If you are an experienced off-roader, you have likely used a winch more than a few times. If you have vast experience pulling yourself or others out of sticky situations, you have likely had a ...

Navigating the rugged terrain of the great outdoors is what off-road enthusiasts live for. But even the most seasoned wheelers can encounter tricky and sticky situations and get their vehicles stuck ...

Factor 55 has released an instructional video on a winch component that keeps stirring up questions: load-centering spools. Sometimes mistakenly called a pulley, a load-centering spool—like its name ...