These idiots look like candidates for a Darwin Award, how stupid could you be trying to do a recovery like that. It's damn lucky nobody was injured or possibly killed.
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These idiots look like candidates for a Darwin Award, how stupid could you be trying to do a recovery like that. It's damn lucky nobody was injured or possibly killed.
Doggie I'll give your challenge a go:
1. trying to single strand winch avehicle instead of using ginney wheel to make reduction in double backed cable
2. no one driving stuck 4wd while being winched
3. as said cheap nylon tow rope with steel hooks
4. snatch strap connected to in appropiate recovery points (ie non solid purpose built)
5. Bow shackle in middle of straps( if used, should only be in conjunction with above brackets)
6. too many bystanders too close and no-one enforcing safe t zone
7. no directions coming from trusted spotter
How did I go?
Ummm, I dont know what to say. Jaw bounced of the keyboard a few dozen times during the eight odd minutes it ran. From the sounds of them the gene pool could do without their input.
Dodgy brothers at their best!!!
Some people just never learn!!
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/t...rret/strap.jpg
No Damper on the wire rope, or the snatch strap, straps should be joined with a rolled up magazine, pulling from the tow ball!!!!!!, yeah, Gene pool is right. maybe they have been hit in the head by a flying tow ball before, or a bumper, or tow bar, or roo bar, shackle etc
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/t...et/straps2.gif
After the towball exits the vehicle, it travels further until it runs out of rope, then it stops rather abruptly, and that is when your BRAINS fall off!!!.
Please everyone be very careful when recovering a stuck vehicle.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...02/3082903.htm
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...213-18ub4.html
Incorrectly attached to the towball???Quote:
Coroner Don Jones found that the snatch strap being used to tow the vehicle free had been incorrectly attached to the towball.
I hope they mean it "was attached to the towball" not "incorrectly attached"
I think that when you do your driving test, you should be shown a video of what can happen in a recovery situation if you do it wrong, you should also see a video showing broken or dead bodies caused by hoons and drunks and the be taken to the morgue and see that life is so easily WASTED.
With this knowledge in the back of a persons mind, some grief could be avoided, but no, the powers that be just hand out licences as long as you can steer the thing.
End of rant!!
WOW...............................how dumb can someone be