View Poll Results: Do you/Have you used High tensile Bolts when Fitting a Tow Bar?

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  • Are there Bolts on the Tow Bar??

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Thread: Are High Tensile Bolts Needed?

  1. 22nd May 2007, 04:17 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    The driver of each vehicle cannot stand away - there is a pic floating around of a jeep where the recovery point on the vehicle in front failed and went through the windscreen - missing the driver's head by inches.

    As John said - there should be NO weak links.

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    And the bolts may not be the only weak link - I seem to remember reading of a case where the entire crossmember of the pulling vehicle went through the windscreen of the stuck vehicle, killing the driver. (check for rust!)

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  2. 22nd May 2007, 04:57 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    it is not recommended that you use any towbar or bullbar as a recovery point

    case history suggests that if you do so you will be apportioned the majority of any blame in an enquiry or inquest involving such equipment.
    Now this is what I find silly and is probably just legal liability crap. If you aren't supposed to use the towbar - what are you suypposed to use??? There are no decent recovery point mounts on the back of most 4x4s. With most landie coillers, you have the option of the jate ring type recovery hoops - which use ONE small bolt (admittedly in double shear) - or the towbar - held on by 6 or so bolts in the case of the hayman-reece type. People snatch off this type of towbar all day and every day without problems - there are even special shackle attachments available to do so.
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  3. 22nd May 2007, 08:05 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    Now this is what I find silly and is probably just legal liability crap. If you aren't supposed to use the towbar - what are you suypposed to use??? There are no decent recovery point mounts on the back of most 4x4s. With most landie coillers, you have the option of the jate ring type recovery hoops - which use ONE small bolt (admittedly in double shear) - or the towbar - held on by 6 or so bolts in the case of the hayman-reece type. People snatch off this type of towbar all day and every day without problems - there are even special shackle attachments available to do so.
    mate, i know, perplexing stuff and i am having trouble getting my head around the ADR's as i delve into the hyland hitch kafuffle i am researching...

    towbars are a strange animal... with even stranger rules governing them it seems..

    dont ever try and snatch a nissan pathfinder off the towbar, they have shear points on the brackets that bolt to the crossmembers if it is a genuine nissan towbar, the hayman reece doesnt :P
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