Its a pain in the rear, but use pulleys to increase your pulling power. Say that you are dragging dead weight of 6,000 lbs straight from your hook to your winch. If you add one pulley at the 6,000 lbs to create a loop back to the winch, you will still be pulling dead weight of 6,000 lbs. But if you add 2 pulleys, one at each end, you cut the 6,000 lbs to 3,000 lbs. Four pulleys cut it to 1,500 lbs and so on. Snatch blocks will do this for you. Yep, it involves dragging cable back and forth, but you can give a winch rated at 2,000 lbs the same power as one rated at 8,000 lbs dragging dead weight by using pulleys.
When I was stationed in Germany, I got an M818 5-ton stuck in the mud real good, but there was a huge tree near by, about dead center up front. I had more than enough cable to use a snatch block at the tree, and one back at my front so that I could have dragged the cable out, back, and out again, doubling my pulling power, or cutting it in half, depending how you choose to look at it. The cable was heavy, the mud deep, so I dragged it out and around the tree and hooked it there, which was 100% wrong. The cable bit into the tree bark, tearing it up...wrong No. 1. I hooked pulling across the cable grain which kinks and damages the cable...and that's wrong No. 2. Pulling dead weight straight on, mired in mud...wrong No. 3. The pin sheared off to the drum on that huge winch with that huge cable pulled banjo string tight, truck still mired in the mud. No sense in getting another truck stuck, it took a Cat to get it out, and that tore the ground up even worse. People don't like you tearing up their trees and ground, and shouldn't tolerate it. I was wrong on all counts, but I learned my lesson...cheat, cheat never beat. Use snatch blocks, pulleys to do the real hard work for me.
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