Bushranger Snatch Strap - anyone had any problems with these?

Take it back for a refund. Bushranger should have a warenty on their products.
I have one that has never been used so you have me worried about if it will let me when I most need it
Vince

Pulling a vehicle that is heavily stuck is pulling alot of dead weight. Sometime the weight is equivalent to 2-3 times the vehicle's weight, particulary is sticky mud. They also wear out. Get cuts and nicks as they drag over rocks and other objects. The fibres also get weakened when stored wet (like tents) or if oils/fuels get contaminated on them.

From what you initially said I believe the starp was new so it woudn't have had any wear and tear. But it still might have been weakened by oils/fuel etc if not stored properly. I wouldn't have thought it would snap like you said it did, but I wasn't there and I don't kow what the conditions were like.

Alot of snatch straps have an in built warning device in them. Some red couloured threads within the webbing. When they show it means it's been streched beyond it's capabilities and should be replaced.

Did you use a snatch blanket on the snatch strap?

What has the shop said about the snatch strap?
Get $ back and go buy an ARB one, used mine dozens of times without issue.

MSSDB

Recovery equipment should be purchased on quality, it is a safety issue

Didn't one of the strap suppliers have some quality issues a little while back...discovered when one of the mags did a comparo? Can't remember which one but I think ARB was involved?

I have my stretch straps made for me by a rigging supplyer, tested and rated to 14000 kg the cost is not that much more.
I believe that when dealing with the weight of cruisers and the LWB nissans you need the heavier ratings

I've had mine for about 1 year (it's a mean green by opposite lock) and I finally used it for the first time a coupe of weeks ago.
It worked fine, it took two snatches to get me out (after digging with long handed shovel).
Thank you mean green.

Only problems with recovery were:

1. Photo's taken by members in our group clearly show houses and laughin residents about 20 meters behind my car (as I was only 5 metres off the main road!!!!!).
2. The only other vehicle out with us was my mates Daihatsu Feroza which was the car to recover me!!!!! ARRGH.
I should have opened the cameras and destroyed the film! LOL

To think of all the mad places I have taken this vehicle and the first time to get it stuck since I have owned it (december last year) it was there in those circumstances. DOUH!

I'm glad i wasn't involved in that recovery. Imagine the towball parting company from the towbar and disappearing into either your radiator or windscreen. The stored energy in a snatch strap under tension combined with about 1/2 a kilogram of steel ball hurtling towards you would surely put a damper on the rest of the days driving.

I knewit!!!!!!

Sooner or later I would agree with GO-OFFROAD!!! AAAARRGGGHHHHHHHH!!

:-)

But he is right!!

NEVER, EVER snatch off a tow ball!!!!

And always remember that the first step in recovery should be to dig as much sand/dirt/mud from in front of all wheels as you can to make the snatch as easy as possible.

Snatch recovery is a dangerous game and people have been killed by not "playing" properly!!!

Go and do a 4 wheel drive course with a club or an accredited trainer or something.... at least you'll be able to come to your family after a day out on the tracks!!!!

My concern witth all these strories about snatch straps/ recovery hooks etc. failing is htere is usually an attempt to justify the failure by saying "As it turns out, the car was pretty well stuck," The first step of any recovery should be to assess how stuch the vehicle is and attempt to dig out, jack p and road buils etc before reaching for the snatch strap. I would also have thought winching, which was apparently an option, should have been considered before snatching.

Unfortunately I dont recall the brand of snatch strap but at a minesite I was at the contractors used our (I wasnt there to say no bleeping way) snatch strap to pull a service truck (big 10 wheeled truck) out of the saltlake and back onto the causeway with a grader so no it shouldnt have snapped as ANY recovery of a 4wd no matter how bogged would be only a fraction of the effort of the forementioned recovery