Thread: Is it ok to snatch from

I've been snatching,towing,winching off mine for 12 years,I've had pulleys hanging off them,pulled 12 palm tree's out of my backyard with them,it's a bit late to tell me there not an anchor point.Thinking about it mine have had more use than any other bit of my recovery gear.They haven't bent,cracked or suffered in anyway. Pat

Originally Posted by PAT303

I've been snatching,towing,winching off mine for 12 years,I've had pulleys hanging off them,pulled 12 palm tree's out of my backyard with them,it's a bit late to tell me there not an anchor point.Thinking about it mine have had more use than any other bit of my recovery gear.They haven't bent,cracked or suffered in anyway. Pat

You must be nice and gentle with your snatching, towing and winching then Pat as I have seen the result of one that was torn out during a recovery.
And to see one that has let go is enough for me not to be anywhere within coee of anyone using them in such a way.

If they were there for recovery purposes, and were fit for purpose, then why don't ARB bars still have them?

All I can say is I can think of two winching recoveries that needed two pulleys to get the defender to move and one snatch where we had to get a 110 tray and an RR onto mine to get it out and like I said if never had an issue with them,I just went out and had a look at them and they are perfectly sound.Maybe we need to get onto ARB and ask about them,I cannot see them as an anchor for a welding jig during manufacturing in any way and if there not an anchor point I can't see why they would be re-enforced the hole,to me they are an anchor point. Pat

Just had a look at the rangie, It has the bottom holes, But also two large threaded eye bolts, fitted pretty well in the end of the chassis rails. Seen similar on a mates pushyota, using the bottom holes and eye bolts it actualy hinged? Long story short, I would not trust them.

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

Sorry, this is completely different to mine. These are NOT the points to which I was referring in my previous post.

Waz

Those vertical eye plates are suitable for vertical and fore/aft loading, i.e lifting and towing in a straightish line. For horizontal loads your plate /eyebolt should be horizontal too. In my dissipated youth I used to go dune buggying. The best snatching points were proper towbars strongly mounted to the front. I personally wouldn't allow snatching on anything less well constructed than a rear heavy duty towbar. It shouldn't be hard to engineer a towbar into your front bar, and you can also use it to manouver your boat/van back into its carport.

I anyone has experience to the contrary let me know but I THINK they are good with a straight line force, but not good laterally (they bend side to side too easily).

And yes, with a snatch recovery there is no need for a bull at a gate aooroachm as is so often seen with the Nissota crowd. Slow and steady....

Originally Posted by VladTepes

more details ?

There a plate that bolts to your bull bar mounts so that you can pull off your chassis rather than the bull bar, I have them on my disco I can take pics if need be.


The eyelets on the bull bars were removed on the later models because of the airbag set up


Adam