Shearwater wrote:
i second the concern about using rope - particularly nylon. This stuff stretches 20-25% pretty easily and if it broke it would come back like a rubber band
. Chain would be a safer, but much heavier material.
X10
Been there done that!!!
I have always carried one of the big yellow thick braided nylon tow ropes. Big huge metal hooks on either end.
Last year a big DP got stuck in the sand behind my MH. He tried digging it out to no avail. I offered my tow rope and a big dually truck dropped his FW and offered to pull it out.
That rope did just what you said. One BIG snap, broke the rope and that rope AND the
huge hook became a missile
and damn near decapitated one of the campers standing there.