Friday, Aug 08, 2003 at 22:19
To all,
The frightening thing is that they failed before reaching there load rating....
l will stick to winching using lifting rated tackle, most if not all vehical winch's come fitted with open hooks that don't carry any marked load rating. a lot of clubs are asking members to get locking hooks fitted to the winch's on there cars for two very good reason, one can be positively locked onto a tow point, two for insurance reasons the gear has a load rating stamped on it!
as for the snatch straps,
well I think we might need to see some better safety standards set for this type of equipment as currently it seems that just about anything goes!
the forces involved in snatching a truck out of a bog can see 3 or more times the weight of the vehcial's involved eg. 3 X 3500kgs for a loaded toyota or NiSSan being put on the strap...... 10,500kg on a 11,000kg breaking strain strap? No thanks!
on a 11,000 kg SWL(safe working load) strap.... sounds a lot better to me!
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