All personal opinion but a friend of mine "weldenupafatone" has a Ramsey 9500 Patriot series and that is by far the BEST winch i have ever seen! it pulls like no other and is extremely fast. When i was stuck down in Fordyce a friends new Warn 8000 couldnt pull me out with a snatch but the Ramsey 9500 could. This winch has never given him problems and i believe he's owned it for a couple years now. From what i have seen i would recommend the Ramsey 9500 to anyone because it has proved it self countless times. I have a Mile marker that's a 8000 i paid much less but suffer in speed tremendously, it pulls harder then any 8000lb winch i've seen but the spool speed is deathly slow. As everyone well knows Warn has been around for along time and is a pretty trustworthy brand, usually they're the company setting the standards for others to follow but in my opinion the Ramsey is worth every dime.