[jim65wagon]

This is how tightly the Hidden Hitch tucks up. The receiver alone does very little to your approach angle.



With a winch attached it's a slightly different story. This is a Superwinch EPi9.0 on a Curt Winch plate.



As you see the winch and fairlead do not hang down much, but they do stick out from the bumper far enough to affect your approach angle. I've buried it three times now: in a hillside doing a 37 point U-turn on a narrow trail; coming down off a runoff swale on a forest road at a fair rate of speed; and going through a mudhole in Monongahela NF.

In all fairness, none of these damaged anything, or affected the use of the winch. All that was required was some washing for the dirt crusties. I would like to see the winch higher, but at this point I'm not willing to plunk down the cash for a new bumper...