Thread: Using the Towbar as a recovery point.

Well Folks the trip was done and as it happens the Prado got bogged (kind of expected that) in a Slippery Mud hole, it wasnt deep mud or ever very sticky it just suffered a bit on Ground clearence and hung up on the underbody, i used the method that i proposed in my first post and all it needed was a gently pull hardly even felt it but it was just enought to set the prado free, i still did all the other right things like put a dampener on the strap but i dont hink it really needed it as there was no real force.

thanks all

Kevin

Originally Posted by Sue

Don't put a shackle through the pin as all you are doing there is just adding one more piece that could well fail... but you can (if you don't have or can't use a recovery block) put the pin (or bolts that hold the towball in pace) through the loop in the snatch strap... I have heard of pins bending this way (which would make them very difficult to remove) but have never personally met anyone who has seen it happen ..(it's always been a friend of a friend kind of story)..

you need to come and see me.

Bent one recovering a toymota out of a bog but we'd had to loop a chain over the pin to get the length needed to put the recovery vehicle on decent ground.

I'f we'd had a longer or suitably rated extension strap I dont think it would have happened.