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Has anyone used these guys n their rear recovery point?

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Range Rover Blues:
Yeap, the longer the better, within reason. 

Also, whils tI agree with not putting a shackle in between 2 strops, people do it so that the shackle can slide along the bridle and even out the load.  If all strops are the same it shouldn't be the bridle that fails first.  Shouldn't be!

Disco Matt:
This is good. I've been hunting around for a towing bridle for ages and it turns out all I need is a big shackle that won't crush my spare tow strap!

I've seen some 8t rated ones which seem to be the biggest you can buy, will order one in a few days.

dxmedia:
IMO don't put anything metal in the links between the strops. If you want a slide on the bridge just pass the bridle through the loop in the end of the strop which is being attached to it.

A non static line snaps (steel winch, strop, kinetic...) and there's a shackle in there, then that's a 1/2 kilo of metal traveling at exceptionally high speed.

A strop whips you around the head and my god it would hurt. A shackle does it and it would kill you.  For the sake of a bit of thinking, there's no need to have anything metal which isn't attached to something solid such as a proper rated (not looping over the top of a tow bar) recovery point. For all joints between recovery strops, all that's needed is a stick or glove to stop the 2 strops jamming.

Winching obviously is different, and we all know about being twice as far as the length of the winch line away and always have the bonnet up... (unless plasma is being used)  :roll:

Disco Matt:
Fair enough then, this is good as it's cheaper (doesn't require any more kit  :lol: )!

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