X-BULL Universal Winch Cradle Mounting Plate for Recovery Winches

Nice product. as described.

Purchased it for the X-Bull 13.5 and it’s a little tight for the power cables. I worry about the long term use (rubbing), the winch fits into the mount but one of the wires is very tight against the left side. I could probably avoid this if I removed the handles. Don’t let my find deter you from this purchase because it’s solid and does it’s job well, so well that I just pulled my friend out of some mud and he was driving a semi with a flatbed attached. Bad ass if you ask me !! Ashley Summers Summerville SC

This is a great mount! We put a Stegodon 13k winch in it, and it's performed flawlesly. The handles on the side make is much easier to pick up, and walk off with it. I am thankful they are there! When I bought this, I also bought a weldable hitch receiver and I drilled pin holes in the other end, essentially making an adaptor so that we could slide it on this mount, and insert a shackle hitch into the other end. Now we can chain or tie it off, pretty much anywhere, or take the adaptor off and mount it in a reciever on a truck. About the most, we've winched so far is a 10k forklift, up a 40 degree incline onto an industrial carrier (tandem axle rollback). It's worked flawlessly. Great mount!

I needed to replace my previous winch cradle because it wasn't quite long enough to clear the brush guard and lights on my new front bumper with a receiver mount. This cradle appears well made. The two things that appealed to me the most about this cradle are the length of the receiver tube from the back of the cradle to the hitch pin hole (5 5/16 inch) and the reinforced tube mount. Most of the cradles I saw photos of, the receiver tube is welded only to the back plate of the cradle. This X-Bull cradle is not only welded to the back plate but is also reinforced by another half tube welded to it and along almost full length of the underside of the bottom mounting plate. I mounted a Smittybilt X-20 10,000# winch to this cradle. It fit but the cradle is really just barely deep enough (front to back) for it and the solenoid/motor cables. The adjustable handles are a plus but not too much of a big deal to me. I still had to finagle the battery cables around both sides of the handle bracket to make the connections from the solenoid to the motor. Even though there weren't any instructions and it was missing half the washers, overall this seems to be a well made product. It also included a few very thin black washers that I have no clue what they're for but when I tried using them, they tore apart. This mount came a day earlier than expected and was well packaged. In fact, it was almost funny that it was basically a box in a box inside another box! I haven't winched anything with it yet in the field but will update later.

Awesome. My only complaint is the winch I put on this is HEAVY as all get out. But it sure is nice to move my winch around from my truck to my tractor and basically anything with a hitch. worked perfect for my 12T smitty built.

This is one well made unit. It did add some additional weight to the Badlands winch, it is definitely worth it. The pre-drilled bolt holes on the plate matched perfectly up to the 12000 Badlands winch and the double rollers that cause the cable to retrack evenly back onto the spool also had pre-drilled holes that matched, as well as, the bolts and nuts to go with it. All in all this is an excellent choice to secure the winch in place for dragging something. Be advised that your 2" receiver hitch needs to be capable of handling 6 tons or you may not have a good day.