Equaliser/Bridle Straps

Hacksaw,

Both TJM and ARB sell specific equaliser straps - and probably others as well. I have a "Just Straps" one from TJM.

In reality you could use a tree protector strap, because both are "Static" straps, ie. not very stretchy.

The main difference is the proper equaliser has protected eyes at each end for hooking onto recovery points, and a protective sleeve in the middle for the eye of your snatch strap to go over to minimise wear on the equaliser.

As long as your tree protector strap allows for an angle of 90 degrees or less you could safely use it - any more and you risk putting undue forces on your vehicle instead of sharing the forces as you want to. (This applies to the equaliser strap as well, and is obviously determined by the overall length of the strap)

Hope this makes sense, and is helpful,

What Jimbo said. I just picked one up the other day from ARB ( a Just Straps one for $35 less club discount) and have already used it. It's cheap enough, small enough and purpose designed so why not have one.

I have a tree trunk protector which I bought at ARB 4 years ago. At the time there was no mention of an equaliser strap. I presume from that the tree protector is adequate, but these equaliser straps are newer and might be a bit better.
Dean