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Bow Shackles
Jim-Willy:
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--- Quote from: "jim-willy" ---Now you've got me worried, should i reserve the shackes i've got for light use and buy some heavy ones for general use. I ship to Sweden week after next for the offroad tour and plan on getting stuck, I need to trust my kit?!
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use preventitive ground reading and you should only need light recovery kit be gung ho and you need heavy recovery kit its your choice to get stuck :lol: :lol:
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I agree to a point, but when you're in a convoy and something looks 50/50? I'm sensible but also i'm a bloke! and the only way to test your limits is to exceed them, i'm gono go 4.75t I think.
muddyweb:
I know this is going to sound a little sanctimonious, but if you bend a 4.75T shackle doing a recovery in a Land Rover... you are doing it wrong.
I tend to use 4 tonne shackles... and like all the other gear I use, these are TESTED and RATED bits of kit. That means they have a proper rating and a safety factor on them too.
If the vehicle is so heavily bogged that you think a bit of gear isn't up to it, you need to look at a different way of recovering it.
lowey:
Just be careful you dont have Uri Geler in the vicinity cos he CAN bend metal. :lol:
Jim-Willy:
I know where your coming from, my shackes and straps are good, rated bits of kit but i've ordered some 4.75 rated shackles from Pro-Comp just to be safe. I probably won't get stuck as i need to drive the truck 2500-3000 miles home so i can't play that hard, but mistakes happen.
Wanderer:
I may be the suspicious type but weights etc for lifting and for pulling seem to have different sets of rules.
ie. X tonnes (not suitable for lifting).
So are they X tonnes or aren't they?
How do you know if you've got the "safe for lifting" items?
Anyone know?
Ed
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