I'll help you to understand; I just really enjoy using my winch, I mean I spent money on my winch.....plus its why I take passengers and/or use spotters. They "wanted to go four wheeling too", or "wanted to spot for the group". I'm just putting them to work in the job they applied for, I'm an equal opportunity off road employer :rock:
On the rare chance I am riding solo, I just follow MTG. When he gets stuck, I then know to 'engage lockers' before the point MTG got stuck at. However, if he is still nearby I would just yell at him to start running my winch cable to a recovery point on his rig "Knuckles", or a rock, or a tree, or hook the line to my spare tire and then bury my spare tire no less than four feet deep and use that as a winch point . I don't remember paying for lockers, but I remember buying my winch, so I use it, a lot. :standing wave: