Recovery Points

Hi Ray,

I have a great thing called a bush hook - about $55 I think from Total 4WD Centre in Epping Victoria. You take out the towball/toungue assembly from your hitch style tow bar, and instead of just using a snatch with the pin through it - you insert the bush hook. it is the (I think it's 50mm?) box tube that slides into the hitch receiver and the pin goes through it as normal - but instead of a towball it has a recovery hook on the back.

The whole unit is rated at 10,000lbs and works very very well.

I'll show you on the weekend :-)

I know of people with he skills and equipment fabricating things very similar to the bush hook, and I'm sure they work just as well, but for only $55 bucks it's a great option for those of us without the necessary gear to make such things, and I have peace of mind knowing that it has some kind of rating instead of me thinking - "yeah it looks strong".

Cheers,

Luke.

G'day,

I've been told that those hooks underneath are only there for tie down points when they are bringing the vehicles to Oz from O/S. Therefore one wouldn't imagine that they are very sturdy or capable of withstanding decent sorta recovery jobs ay.

Jim

Ray...
Ive used the Hayman Reece more times than I can think of, and once was when you dragged me out of Wombat!!

The Vic 4wd Association recommends and trains people to use the Towbar tounge pin, the one that holds the tounge into the bar. As I say Ive used mine probalby 50-100 times never bent a pin.

As for the front, lets look Saturday morning at it!

Other option is to try the local TJM shop if that was ARB. Or even just any 4wd shops in the area

we snatched a disco up a loooooong hill with shackles thru the eyes in the ARB bar, didnt break anything but elongated the eyes somewhat which in my mind is a precursor to breaking, I wouldnt be happy doing it, the Disco didnt have a rated recovery hook like the patrol has.

I was also taught to use the hayman reese pin with the strap up the hole, but i can see how it could damage the strap.

At T-man says SEEYA Satdy mawnin in AvocaSo many places to go!
So much work to do :0(

Luke the hitch recovery attachment sound ok for rear recovery (most common i guess) might need someone to get me one sometime in the future.
As fro ARB front eyes they are slightly above and centre on my car(navara) and i would not use one for that purpose and no recovery hook i have yet seen has the same distance between the chassis and recovery hook holes (i have triedarb , black rat, factory and pajero ones) . And i wont drill the chassis.
Still thinking , you think my brother the engineer/welder would help me out especially since the drought has made him quite of late, lol.

cheers1999 NISSAN NAVARA DUALCAB
DIESEL 3.2 & SPRINGY CARLTON TOY

Ray,
on the front of your Rodeo, you should still be able to use the original factory supplied recovery hook bolted to the RH chassis rail. If like the Gitsham Bullbar I had fitted to my R9 Rodeo, the original hook because of the angle and orientation of it fouls the bullbar mount is unusable because a snatch strap can't pass over the hook you have two options.
(1) Fit a rear recovery hook from current model Jackaroo's - they have correct hole spacing and hook is vertical, compared to the original angled horizontal hook of the Rodeo.
(2) Bitch like crazy to ARB, they shouldn't be producing a product that interferes or makes unusable the factory (options available) for recovery hooks.
For the rear, a factory towbar (made by Frontline and also same towbar a TJM option) will have a facility on the side bracket for fitting of original rear recovery hook.

Cheers,

Dion.