About the recovery bag. I doubt you'll ever break the 3" recovery strap but is it a static, no stretch strap or is it one of the straps that let you build up momentum to snatch someone out of a stuck? If you're ever going to use it, I've seen some scary, SCARY stuff happen with the sretchy kinds. These guys were moving a tree off the trail with a 12,000 lb winch, a recovery strap, and snatch block. The cable crimps let go, we never ever found the snatch block. All we heard was it whistling off through the trees!
A buddy borrowed my 3" recovery strap, I didn't ask him why. He was using his truck, pulling backwards, to pull bushes out of his front yard. A stubborn one held on, he gunned it, the bush LAUNCHED onto his hood and smashed his windshield! (oh God, I'd loved to had the video of that!)
I have chain, static load straps, AND the recovery strap. Diffent usages for each.
About that Billy Barty shovel, it'll do, in a pinch, but on a hard day, with a lot of snow or sand, if you have a roof rack especially, you'll wish like hell you had a real shovel.
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03-20-2006, 04:17 PM
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