Snatch Straps

Hi Voxson

When I did my 4WD intro course the instructor said he uses his strap every week end in the demos and the strap was 2 years old. He did however show how to inspect for damage and wear.

Where did you pick up your info from It certainly makes recovering others without equipment an expensive exersice using your own.

Regards

Trevor

couldnt agree more.

Its something you should never be cheap on - buy from a proper 4wd store, ARB, TJM, etc. Not Supercheap.. if they let go, you can die.

Staps from Supercheap, was shown to be better quality compared to ARB one
in the one of the 4wd mags review, when they tested the breaking strain...
The Supercheap one broken at around 12000kg and ARB one just under 8000kg.
Both there rated for 8000kg.... So not everything is S***T in Supercheap :)

yes stan, and you can believe anything you like from magazines.. I wont ever believe one thing written.

The $ is mightier than the truth.

YMMV.

The test rig set up they used was a pretty good way of doing it, the gear was calibrated and it wasn't just a test with bogged vehicles. They used science. They used the same strap and tested in both wet and dry.

The brand supercheap sell can be bought elsewhere for more $$ and clearly blitzed several of the big brands. From memory the brand may have been the NZ mob Straps2Go but I could be wrong there.

I suggest you buy one from where ever you can get it cheaper.

Truckster will obviously feel better about it if he pays more than the ARB one was from another retailer due to the superior quality of the ones selling the same product for a higher price. :o))

The Staun ones look really good but I think their market is limited due to the price being in excess of 4 x the competition.

Dave

The brand of snatch strap from SuperCheap was Tow2Go - a NZ company. Apparently they are brilliant. On the other hand, some Chinese-made tow strap from SuperCheap failed miserably when they tested tow ropes - it was rated to 4000kg or something, but the pathetic hooks on either end that looked like they were designed for hanging pot plants straightened out at an unbelievably low load.

Just Straps is another quality brand, made in Australia. www.4wd1.biz is a good reseller of that brand - not affiliated, just had excellent service from them. Their straps also rated highly in the said tests.

'The Supercheap one broken at around 12000kg and ARB one just under 8000kg.'

Is breaking at 12000kg a good thing for an 8000kg strap. Not much good exerting 12000kgs of force on recovery hooks that may be rated at a lower rating. I reckon if something is rated then it should fail close to the rated value, if it is over or under by 505 then I reckon that has dangers associted with it.

505 should read 50%

Good point Pat,

Would rather break a strap than rip parts off the car.

Of course if you are doing it properly (as per the training done with 4WD club) then you should not be putting that much force on the strap in the first place. A gentle tug is all that is generally needed and let the strap do the work.

Cheers
Muddy

I think the point was to see if the rating claims on the packaging were true. Some were some weren't.

People do break snatchies. Dunno how. Misuse probably.

If you read another exercise they did where they put a load cell on the hitch and did some real life snatches the loads are around 25% of strap ratings when used correctly anyway.

My point was merely to illustrate that the most expensive strap isn't necessarily the best.

Dave

As for the failure point, that was amply illustrated by that yankee video of the little sports car getting snatched out of the snow drift a while ago.

If you can e-mail it to me:

slavalena at optusnet dot com dot au
I'll put it under file swap section on this site.

Thanks.

G'day Scoey,

Thanks for the tip. I'd be grateful if you could email it to me. I had a look at the previous follow ups but I couldn't find the link.

Cheers
Steve

Hi Steven,

You'll need to post your email address mate! ;-)

Cheers
Scoey

Yes, of course. That would be helpful.

Here it is: stevenes@netspeed.com.au

Thanks Scoey

My g/f bough me that kit 18 months ago and it is very good IMO.

cheers, might go grab myself one for easter.