winching in Salt Water?

Dixon · Ollie Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 53 City: Hartsville

has anyone used a grinch winch on the beach or anywhere with salt water?
Does the saltwater do any damage to the winch? Or is it pretty safe to just let it rip on the beach?

integrity640 · Kickflip Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2866 City: Ocala

talk to anchors away, his got a lil efed up from the sand

mattttt60 · Backside 180 Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 648 City: 941

ya ive seen alot of ppl using its... i may be wrong but in volume 7 they are using a grinch on that beach in the bahamas...

KEEF · Pop Shuvit Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 218 City: orlando

its fine for them they are made to get beaten up go out and turn some heads at the beach

<MikeG> · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1293 City: PBG

ive used a grinch at the beach in the salt water, its fine, just wash the winch down with fresh water when you get down to keep the rust away, and use some WD-40 on the major bolts and wat nots, dont want your winch rusting up

Dixon · Ollie Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 53 City: Hartsville

awesome, thanks a lot......i definitely gotta go hit it up asap

Anchors Away · Posted: Jul 13, 2008 7:30 am Post subject:

Place the winch at the end of a cove. You want the line to NOT drag in the sand when the rider is pulling line out. Other than that ur golden.

My line got embedded with sand and turned all 1000' into sand paper and cut deep into all my rollers. Now the rollers cut the line every few pulls and im gonna have to buy more Amsteel Crying or Very sad

kornhouse · Posted: Jul 13, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

we used nicks grinch and at our beach and just strapped it onto a broken pier and then we used DMoneyy's on the same spot and there weren't problems with either of them. just spray TC-11 on all the metal parts afterwards and wipe down the axle.

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

you will NEVER stop rust from the salt water. have fun

Jholiday · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

shred it..... just clean it afterwards and its fine

Dixon · Ollie Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 53 City: Hartsville

haha....nice pic man, thanks for the help dude, i'm pumped now