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3500 lb ATV Winch Review

Written By: Esther
November 16th, 2011 | Filed under Winch Reviews | No Comments »Tags: 3500 lb Winch, ATV Winch, Customer Testimonial, UTV Winch

"I expected a ho-hum winch...what I got was exceptionally heavy duty parts and wires to make this winch perform the best that it can."

We love hearing from our customers! Here is some feedback from a ProMark customer who bought one of our 3500 lb ATV / UTV winches for his Polaris RZR.

“In the world that we live in today, where the Internet can find anything and everyone everywhere is trying to make a buck or just rip someone off, it is so REFRESHING to have bought this winch from you.

The communication was top notch. The shipping, second to none. But best of all, when I opened the package, I was absolutely amazed at the quality your product delivered.

If there is another place where I can go to rant and rave about my experience with you, please show me! I expected a ho-hum winch for $169.99. What I got was exceptionally heavy duty parts and wires to make this winch perform the best that it can.

I haven’t even mounted this winch yet. I have installed electronics, etc. in vehicles for 18 years. I know what I am talking about. I am so excited to start a beautiful professional install tomorrow! The fairlead and winch stop are of the utmost quality. I can’t wait to get stuck with my RZR!!”

Thank you so very much,

Scott W.

Tags: 3500 lb Winch, ATV Winch, Customer Testimonial, UTV Winch
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Just How Bulletproof is the Outback 3500 lb Winch by ProMark?

Written By: Esther
May 17th, 2010 | Filed under Offroad Winch Stories, Winch Reviews | 1 Comment »Tags: 3500 lb Winch, Outback Series Winch

Ask someone who knows! Adam Harvey is a proud ProMark winch owner with plenty of stories to tell. In this episode, posted on ArcticChat.com, Adam shows just how tough a ProMark winch can be. With a tree blocking the trail and no way around it, this trailblazer dug his ATV into the sand and put his Outback 3500 lb ProMark winch to work:

Winching a tree limb off the trail
with the Outback 3500 lb winch

“You can see how each limb was snapped off the tree, and eventually after de-limbing the tree, I was able to move the trunk of the tree as well so we could proceed thru the creek. My bike pulled non-stop for over an hour, and NEVER burnt up. My battery survived, my winch survived, and the PROMARK saved the day. We were not done yet…after I got that tree out of the way we ran into another one and decided to just get out of the creek, so again I had to put the ole PROMARK to the test. I winched myself up out of the creek bank, and winched almost all of the other bikes up out of the creek. So for almost 2 straight hours, the winch never got a break except when free spooling out to hook to another limb/tree or bike.”

After describing his off road escapades in detail, Adam then goes on to brag about just how well the ProMark winch held up during the entire ordeal:

“The winch is made by PROMARK which some of you know makes the Gorilla winches. Some people have dislikes about their products from the past experiences but this winch is a new product and I can tell you it is BULLETPROOF. I put it thru its paces last night and I would recommend it to ANYONE.”

Later on in the post, Adam continues to rave about his winch:

“I have been STUPID impressed with this winch. Tom McCullough gave me this winch to test out and I told him I was rough on a winch and don’t be mad if I broke it. He told me to see if I could; he needed to know if it had any weaknesses. I can tell you I have been dumbfounded that I can’t tear this winch up. I don’t abuse my equipment by any means, I use it just how you are supposed to and take care of it, but I have gotten so used in the past to my Warn breaking every time I use it, or it not even working at all after you free-spool it. I’m 100% against Warn because I’ve had 10 and have not gotten a good one YET! This is my first ever ProMark and I can tell you I am sold for life! This 3500 Outback Series is undoubtedly the toughest thing I’ve ever used. It pulled for two hours non-stop last night. I went to lunch and ate lunch with all my friends earlier and all of them were all constantly talking about how awesome this thing pulled and worked all nite. … As long as they sell them, they’ve got a customer for life! I won’t ever buy another.”

Want more? Read the full 3500lb winch review with pictures on ArcticChat.com. Or check out the specs for the Outback 3500 from ProMark.

3500 lb Outback Winch Refuses to Break | ATV Winch Review

Tags: 3500 lb Winch, Outback Series Winch
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3500 lb Outback Winch Refuses to Break | ATV Winch Review

Written By: Esther
May 11th, 2010 | Filed under Offroad Winch Stories, Winch Reviews | 1 Comment »Tags: 3500 lb Winch, Outback Series Winch

The Winch: 3500 Outback ATV / UTV Winch from ProMark Offroad
The Assignment: Put it through the ringer

What happens when you put the ProMark 3500 lb Outback winch to the test, where other winches have failed? Adam Harvey knows. In his own words: “I can tell you this, I give my Warn a 2 out of a possible 10. And I give this Outback Series 3500 from ProMark a 9.5 out of a 10. It is daylight and dark difference better than my Warn.” Adam relies on his winch for his job and for some pretty intense riding.

3500 lb Outback winch pulling an ATV
and rig (1400+ pounds) up the hill

Here are a few excerpts from Adam’s review on the High Lifter forum:

“I ended up in touch with the head guy at ProMark and asked him a few questions about their winches. I told him I needed a winch that was indestructible, was fully sealed, and had no plastic gears. I also threw in the stipulation that I needed more than a normal 50ft of rope. I built radiused spacer sleeves for my Warn that allowed me to run almost 80ft of rope and sometimes I needed every inch of it. When you are WAY out in the wilderness or in a bind and nothing is around, sometimes you gotta have more than 50ft of rope. He told me that their ProMark 3500 Outback Series winch was what I needed—indestructible, geared super low to pull anything, fully watertight, and no plastic internals, AND could fit more than 50ft of rope.

I told him to get one coming, got it in and oohh’d and ahhh’d at it. It’s built like a German tank. I put it on and have been running it since. This winch came with all sorts of goodies like a handheld remote and a handlebar rocker switch. The fully sealed solenoid has two inputs for the wired 20ft remote or the optional wireless remote. I don’t normally put my winch under water, but I do wash it religiously every day. I wash my bike at the end of every day, so the bike definitely sees it fair share of water. I recall taking my Warn apart before to do regular maintenance and had rusted gears and a case full of water. As far as I can tell after a month and a half of having this ProMark, no issues from water yet.

Working off my bike like I do, and having equipment that you know is going to work and you can trust gives you an assurance that you can do whatever you set out to do. I feel certain that this winch and all the others they make will do their job. As long as you get the right winch for your application, I am sure you will have safe and happy outings. I know when I go on big rides and you come to a mudhole and there is one guy buried up to his racks in mud and 50 people standing around looking and everybody hollers out ‘who’s gotta winch’ and you look around and 80% of the bikes have a winch and 90% of them are Warn but everybody claims theirs is broken, well I too was one of those guys once and was always without a winch or was always scared it was going to break. Now I don’t have to worry about that. … For the price and the performance so far, this winch is holding up 1000 times better than my Warn.”

Read more of Adam’s winch review at the High Lifter forum, and see the Outback winch in action with these pictures and videos.