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You seem to have misread what I wrote. I was talking about the winch being completely below the false floor where it's out of the way & mounted strong to the unibody, with only the cable/line going up through the floor & fairlead. The only thing on top of the false floor would be the roller or Hawse fairlead (generally depending on steel wire or synthetic rope). I would want the winch low - watch some oilfield skid-loading videos on YouTube, they are ALL mounted at & pulling from floor height on the truck or trailer. Even race car trailers have the winch mounted low at/near floor height and the hook-up point is also kept low on the chassis. What you're wanting is just a micro-size recreation of winch trucks that have been in use for many decades, so the precedent and concept is already well-designed and proven. You're trying to pull the cart up into the van, not flip it over from having the winch points way too high; if the cart wheels bind on something and you're pulling high, it could flip before you realize what's going on.