How often do you use the trailer? How often will you actually use the winch? Do you haul a lot of "dead" tractors and equipment?
Mounting the winch itself is a good idea, protect it from the weather and road spray.
As for the battery. How often will you actually use the winch? Daily, twice a week, every other week, or maybe once a month for example? The thing is it may be more practical to have a set up that allows quick and easy installation and removal of the battery. It does a battery no good to bounce around on a trailer when it is not needed. You can keep the battery on a maintainer in the shop when not needed, install it when you think you will need the winch. We have loaded 2 yard loaders with a 9000 lb. winch powered by a group 24 battery. The battery didn't need a boost or charge during the process. Also proper use of snatch blocks to multipart the winch line will keep the power draw lower than using a single line pull.
If, you use the winch almost daily, I could see mounting the battery and setting it up so it charges from the truck. Once a week or less, I'd put a battery on when needed.
The option of running heavy cables, from the truck battery, to the rear of the truck with matching connectors on them and the winch power cables is another way that has merit. You could make the winch cables (long enough to reach the truck battery) with booster cable clamps on them and just hook them up when using the winch. And using the truck eliminates one battery.
I'm not saying what you want to do is wrong, I'm just throwing out some things to consider.
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