A good winch being expensive, most folks don't want to buy 2, so you run power to both ends, mount the winch to a receiver plate and use heavy Andersons or something like it for the connection and then you have a portable winch that can be carried front to rear if necessary. The other advantage of course is that it is not just limited to one vehicle, you can have a set of jumper cables with the connectors for easy jumps, you can have a set of battery cables on a connector so it could be used with an extra battery in the back of a truck or on a trailer, lots of different possibility with the purchase of just one winch. Maybe I will start a thread on it since I have a few questions.