Using an anchor
One of the 2WD vs 4WD threads got me to wondering how useful could a boat anchor be, combined with a winch, to get one out of a sticky situation? An anchor is only as good as the ground it goes int...
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rockhillmanor wrote:Shearwater wrote:
i second the concern about using rope - particularly nylon. This stuff stretches 20-25% pretty easily and if itbroke it would come back like a rubber band
. Chain would be a safer, but much heavier material.
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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 thehuge hook became a missile
and damn near decapitated one of the campers standing there.
Those big thick yellow nylon ropes are not recovery straps, they are tow straps. Useful for getting a broken rig out of traffic to the side of the road, potentially lethal when used as a recovery strap. Recovery straps are designed to stretch. A mobile vehicle hooks on to the stuck vehicle and gets a run, then stops, when the recovery strap recoils it tends to pull the stuck vehicle out. Recovery straps are much more expensive than tow straps.
