Thread: Tow ball as a recovery point? The answer is NO !!!

Originally Posted by FenianEel

Chinook

Russian + reliability = mmmm not sure.

I'll keep that in mind when shopping for my next cargolifter though!

Hahahahha - google details for the Chinook's - wouldn't ever want to be in one - they tend to want to roll over of their own accord LOL!!

On topic - I recently had the same situation - before the trip I took out the ball & pin to just use the toe bar - I also spoke with Kaymar about this before hand as it is their bar I have on my RRC - the long & short of it is that toe bar should cope with up to 4x what its rated at... 3.2ton is what most are rated at - x 4 = 12.8ton MAX or breaking strain ??

I left it like this & it was a good thing as a recent local trip called for its use to snatch out a mate in a patrol - I got thought a hole he couldn't lol. We used a 12ton snatch & we did use rated shackles - over 4t. Got him out easy & we both inspected all the gear after - was no problems at all & he was bottomed out on diff's & chassis rails.

So I think its good & Kaymar reckon the pin that holds in the toe hitch won't break! Perhaps just check the wields & what not after each recovery for any sign of them getting weak.