What winch are you using on your car trailer?

[Armyvet25]

for professional use, sure, I'd go heavy duty 12k, with my home built junk car hauler for limited personal use, cheapest I could buy, think it was a 3500# harbor freight unit, but I used a cinch block to double it's pulling capacity only drawback is takes twice as long to load using one. I loaded 3 3600# Marlins, a heavier full size pickup and a Jeep with it before selling it, and yes those are wood fence boards for fenders, loaded all my vehicles and was rolling in less than 30 mins ea time.
I tried one Marlin without the cinch block, yanked right up, ideal no but sufficient. Winch rating recommended is 1-1/2 times weight of vehicle rating.