Here is another option for a "bolt on" plate. https://www.4wdfactory.com/store/pro...nch-Mount.html I had one of these a couple years ago and I liked it. I sold it because I couldn't use it with my SAS crossmember or it would likely still be on my truck. It is also nice because it has recovery points for the front built into it.

 

i hope the hell so im sick or being stuck with no way out. This will work great now i have to try to figure out how to scrape up that type of money haha

 

yeah i got a 9000lb on my trailer that is going on 6 years old and the one on my s10 about 4 years old. previous to these i had a warn. the only real difference was the warn was slightly faster.

i ended up finding a 9000lb one at harbor freight for $175 at their sidewalk sale. it was a open box and missing the remote which i didnt care cause i hard wired it to a switch inside the truck

ive been using the receiver style winches for a while and its awesome. i keep a really long pair of jumper cables too encase you have to move it to the back. and if you arent going offroad for a while you just pull the pin and store it out of the weather.

even used it one time on someone elses truck that was buried out in the woods as i didnt feel like dragging my truck way out there.

i dont know about newer s10s if you have the room but i had a 85 years ago i just got a old trailer hitch from a junkyard and welded it in between the frame rails

 

I have used one of those battery packs [that never gets used for anything else??] and it has had enough power to pull my silverado onto my trailer using my 40+ year old warn 8000........

I don't know how long the pack battery would last??........but that makes winching a lot more portable too :-)