I personally think unless you are in competitions, line speed takes a backseat to value. For a typical toyota truck, a 8K lb winch is adequate, and the Ramsey is hard to beat. As I said above, I didn't pick mine out, but I'd buy one again in a heartbeat. They're cheap and hard to beat. Wind it up with a nice synthetic line and still end up CHEAPER than most Warn or MileMarker equivalents.
Again, just my
The trailer still gets the cheapo HF winch though, unless I stumble across another free Ramsey...
Ryan