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cLAYH
07-10-2009, 01:19 PM
http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/listing.cfm?articleID=468&submit=Go

http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1484.jpg (http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1484.jpg)

http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1485t.jpg

This one is especially dumb. Can you say sling shot? I don't even use a shackle for this.

http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1486.jpg

This is the only time I can see this being useful, IF used carefully.

http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1487.jpg (http://www.moabjeeper.com/articles/general/articleImages/468/1487.jpg)

What really burns me is this is written by people who should know better and are giving advice to people who don't! Especially hooking 2 straps together, to do that I always loop one end through the other and then jam a stick in it too keep it from over tightening so I can get it undone later.

MoonWorks
07-10-2009, 01:38 PM
I saw that on another board and I was amazed that it was an actual "write-up" about it. It all looks scary as hell to me. I would avoid all those "methods" at all cost.

ATL ZJ
07-10-2009, 01:38 PM
This is why you don't wheel with people who aren't prepared.

I don't see a whole lot of advantage in the double ended hook vs. a shackle or just looping the strap around something and back through itself.

Can't even remember the last time I needed to join two straps together for anything. More often than not, I find my 25' strap being too long.

I'd prefer to see closures on their hooks and grade 9's being used, but if I saw someone using that contraption in person, I probably wouldn't protest... just offer them a shackle and run behind a rock.

rstrucks
07-10-2009, 01:50 PM
Wow, I'm standing far away from that as possible. I'm sure it can/does work it just seems way to easy for something to go wrong.

SirFuego
07-10-2009, 01:59 PM
Do people really carry spare tow hooks with them like the article suggests? Somehow it seems to me that someone with enough foresight to carry spare tow hooks (and grade 8 bolts, nuts and washers) would also carry a shackle or two with them...

Ken L
07-10-2009, 03:03 PM
1--People that dream up stuff like this are candidates for Darwin Awards

2--People that actually use stuff like this will be Darwin Award winners eventually.

If you need more than one strap length, then loop the two straps together. Yeah it pulls them tight and there is a trick to getting them back apart, but it's safer than attaching a projectile to the strap. There is no way that I would ever attach 2 straps with a clevis let alone that cluster. If the vehicle doesn't have recovery points then don't go out 'wheeling with it. Period.

ELLLLLIOTTTTT
07-10-2009, 04:28 PM
^what he said.

That is ridiculous.

dp96zj
07-10-2009, 08:07 PM
Finally! Something to use the extra tow hooks on!

:smt044

ScottyB
07-11-2009, 06:27 AM
1--People that dream up stuff like this are candidates for Darwin Awards

2--People that actually use stuff like this will be Darwin Award winners eventually.

If you need more than one strap length, then loop the two straps together. Yeah it pulls them tight and there is a trick to getting them back apart, but it's safer than attaching a projectile to the strap. There is no way that I would ever attach 2 straps with a clevis let alone that cluster. If the vehicle doesn't have recovery points then don't go out 'wheeling with it. Period.

Obviously they aren't prepared and you should be worried for more reasons then that. But worse case scenario make them loop the strap around the axle. Easy, safe, effective.

GraKee99
07-11-2009, 06:12 PM
Obviously they aren't prepared and you should be worried for more reasons then that. But worse case scenario make them loop the strap around the axle. Easy, safe, effective.

I don't think saying that recovering a vehicle from the axle is safe is accurate.

ScottyB
07-11-2009, 07:07 PM
I don't think saying that recovering a vehicle from the axle is safe is accurate.

Whats going to come off and become a deadly projectile?? If you have to do a serious side pull you could possibly tear and sever the strap I suppose. That's about all I can think of.

cLAYH
07-12-2009, 01:15 PM
On heavy trucks they often pull on the axles to prevent pulling the truck off the axles. However if you wheel mud or sand putting the strap around an axle AFTER its stuck isn't usually possible.

ZJ TINS
07-12-2009, 01:40 PM
Made by Darwin industries, a Chinese co.

chadjans
07-12-2009, 03:47 PM
I don't think saying that recovering a vehicle from the axle is safe is accurate.

Tell me why some comp rigs have winches on their diff housings.