Ooooops, that's soft over there

[SouthernMudder]

ahh the old truck swallowed in a hole i remember

 

[jobar]

I have 5 25,000 pound straps behind my seats that I carry everywhere I go.

 

[Mutant Pony]

Oh, you don't need all that crap! I carry a 50' chain, a 30' strap and a high lift jack. My chain has a slip hook on one end. I'll never need anything more. Winches are for LAZY people! LOL.
Really the only reason I don't have a winch is that I can't justify the expense. The high lift does the same thing and costs MUCH less.
The real equipment is the truck and the driver. The truck needs to be able to handle the terrain and the driver needs to know what the truck can handle.
I've been sucked into ditches many times but, not in the last 15 years. Eventually you'll learn not to do what got you in there.

 

[351ranger]

What ever happened to posting pictures without being told you are stupid for doing something in the pic? Thats one reason I don't come to this site but maybe once a month. Chains are strong as hell if you use a big enough one. I don't use them myself but that because I have straps, if all I had was chains I would use them all the time.

 

[86freebie]

i have 2 HEAVY chains, 9000# warn, 60" 7000 hi lift jack, shovels. and blankets to put over cables and chains.

my question is what brought you over to the "muck"

 

[Gabe8810]

makes me want to try

 

[Jason]

I had a strap, it's broken now... So whats the point?

Are you serious?


When a chain snaps it has enormous kinetic energy. Enough to kill a person. A proper strap will only hurt.

 

[koda6966]

Are you serious?
When a chain snaps it has enormous kinetic energy. Enough to kill a person. A proper strap will only hurt.

We break old chains at work all the time trying to drag a couple tons of weight around. Never had one fly back and kill someone. Ten feet of recoil at the most.

They don't stretch, therefore they don't build kinetic energy. Metal isn't elastic bub. Unless of course your pulling ALOT of weight with ALOT of power on ALOT of chain.

 

[metalmacguyver]

Shock loads can make metal stretch alot more than you think. They also result in alot more energy being released very quickly.

 

[koda6966]

Shock loads can make metal stretch alot more than you think. They also result in alot more energy being released very quickly.

I wasn't referring to shock loads, if you treat your chain like that your in for a lot more than just a broken chain.

Ease into it. Be gentle.

 

[jamie4ltr]

I was out playing 2 weekends ago with a friend and his B2 on 30'' BF allterrains. He diffed out in a good hole. My reg. cab Ranger doesn't weigh much and I had to "hit" him pretty hard with a strap just to move the B2 a couple feet. (My front spider gears are blown at present as well, so I had no 4x4.) Long story short I snapped my strap from snapping so hard and it came back and shattered my windshield right in front of my face! No clevis or hook, just a strap. If that had hit someone, I'm sure it would of split them wide open. Plain and simple, no matter what you're using to pull, HANG A SWEATER OVER IT, IT MAY SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE!!!

 

[Jason]

I wasn't referring to shock loads, if you treat your chain like that your in for a lot more than just a broken chain.

Ease into it. Be gentle.

I have found from many many wheeling trips that if you don't need to take a run with a truck to pull out another truck, that truck isn't all that stuck. The rare occasion that you are just on the edge of getting out unassisted is so rare I wouldn't carry anything for it. It's the equivalent of keeping a bulldozer on standby just in case. You will likely never need it. So the chain is still useless to me.

 

[jobar]

Why cant you just double up the chains/straps, double up the strength to prevent breakage.

 

[Shran]

You can, that's the point of a snatch block if you use one. It also doubles the pulling power.

Concerning chains, I try and stay away from them...a guy here was being pulled off a rock with one and it broke. About 10' of chain went straight through his windshield and landed in his back seat. He was in the hospital for a week getting glass removed from his eyes.

At least put your hood up if you're being pulled with one. That way it hits that instead of you in the drivers seat. I'd rather have a fucked up hood than anything else.

 

[Loanranger]

DO NOT USE STRAPS WHEN WINCHING

You're one of those morons that wraps your winch cable around trees aren't you? ALWAYS use a strap when using a tree as a winch point. If you don't you're not only causing damage to the tree, you're causing damage to your winch cable.