Emergency recovery strap suggestions?
There was a post awhile ago asking, what tools do you bring? Several posters mentioned tow/recovery straps in their list. Didn't want to hijack his thread and I just learned that there is a differenc...
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I have an ARB Recovery Strap, 3" x 30', 24,000 lb rating that I have used on the beach to pull out guys stuck in the sand. ARB makes the best stuff in my opinion, made for the Australian outback and now here in the US.
Where we went camping on the beach, it was easy to get stuck in soft sand especially pulling the TT (even with tires at 15 psi), but there was always somebody around to give you a hand. Winch is useless on the beach beacuse nothing to attach to. If I was solo in the woods I would opt for a winch because more likely to find a tree to attach than another vehicle.
They are not mutually exclusive either...can use a recovery strap and a winch...as the strap stretches under the tension of the winch, it works like a rubber band and can add that little extra push to break you loose from whatever you are stuck in.
Where we went camping on the beach, it was easy to get stuck in soft sand especially pulling the TT (even with tires at 15 psi), but there was always somebody around to give you a hand. Winch is useless on the beach beacuse nothing to attach to. If I was solo in the woods I would opt for a winch because more likely to find a tree to attach than another vehicle.
They are not mutually exclusive either...can use a recovery strap and a winch...as the strap stretches under the tension of the winch, it works like a rubber band and can add that little extra push to break you loose from whatever you are stuck in.
