The winch seems beefy for my 1 ton trailer. I bought this to serve as an emergency means to load my lawnmower, golf cart, etc. Having a loading ramp is all well and good but this little guy is the ticket. With a nice garage steel use for construction, I would think a much larger payload than 1200lbs would be needed to distort the winch. The powder coating and factory label were not the best, looking to have been played with by a bobcat on the shop floor one night. Other than that, which I deducted one star for, the winch will function as designed.