ET Fishing Show...don't take advice

Yep. ET has no credibility with me outside of the football arena, so taking his advice on matters relating to 4WD-ing is remote. And you are dead right - someone sees that and gets an injury or worse, and the lawyers will be falling over themselves to get a slice of the action.

I will be like you ... and stick with this forum and my club members.

Cheers
Jack

Not to mention the speed with which he recovered the "stuck" vehicle, lucky that the front end didn't fly off with it.
Rolande

And here is me - just 2 hours ago returned from a full weekend of 4WD Driver Training where this stuff is drilled into you

DO NOT use tie downs for recovery

DO NOT use unrated shackles

DO NOT use shackles with snatch straps

(shakes head at producers of Channel 9 and goes to fridge for another beer)

Cheers
Muddy

You would think that will all the $$$$ it costs to buy a new 4by, that rated recovery points would be standard today.

Bow shackles or rated aint mentioned.

I actually went to school with the clown, and went to primary with his missus Monique.. He was NOTHING at sport at school, and usually one ahead of me when picked at lunchtime footy! I was always last, I hated footy.. :(

Shows what good management and marketing can do eh!'

As for that, everyone should email him, toyota, and every 4wd magazine, and association condeming the pleb..

Who's ET???

Bilbo

"strap being attached to the flimsy tie down point!! " That flimsy tie down point probably has a sheer point of 15 tonne or more. Seen plenty of 8 tonne straps break with not distorsion to the tie down so as far as tie downs go Toyota do make one of the stronger ones & with an equalizing strap would be more than suitable for most recoveries. To be politically correct I don't believe there is a rated tow point for a recreation 4x4 with a safe working load capable of hooking up an 8 tonne strap. Why I doubt the tow bar or the bull bar is even allowed to have 8 tonne put on it.(max towing capacity of most tow bars 3.5 tonne or less)
Alot of people who do replace the standard recovery points use the proper hooks instead but attach them to the chassis with 2 x 12mm bolts. Any one who has seen a recovery point failure would know that the weak point is not the tie down ring but the bolts & welded nuts in the chassis. So it's not quite as clear cut as it seems & ET would have no hope of explaining all the issues of vehicle recovery points in a 5 minute segment.
By the way. What recovery points do you have on the Landrover???
Cheers Craig............

Try to break the so called "tie down" loops on a troopy with a snatch strap recovery-----NO HOPE

having been around 4wd 4 many years & bieng involved with instructing for around 13 years i can tell you straight up your tie down points do fail they do break

they are not designed to take shock loads, & every time you use one you weaken it so eventualy it will give way.