Deaths from towballs

[MudRunnerTD]

You ever removed the rear oem loop and seen how its held together? I was quite shocked to say the least.

Yes looks can be deceiving, the reality is that if you did manage to damage a factory point you are doing your recoveries wrong! You might have also damaged the chassis as well.

Yeah my GQ was well held on and I incorporated those points into my rear bar when I made it.

I was shocked though when we pulled Healy's hook off to find it was held on by very little and the bolts certainly needed replacing. I note now though that we also saw that his rear brake line was fully rusted and as it turns out his Chassis rear end had Catestrophic rust that deemed the car a total loss. Disappointing. I wonder then if his fixings were not representative of most? My GQ certainly was well fixed. There is a cross brace from that fixing going above the fuel tanks diagonally to the chassis rails on both sides.

[threedogs]

@ Kind is that a rear tie down point?. Best place to recover from the rear is any central point .
Most 4x4 have a class 2 tow hitch receiver and retrieving from a central position is ideal. As someone stated earlier
if you're straightening OE hooks you are doing it all wrong

[patrol2.8]

In my job I would probably use my front recovery point on average over a week about 8-10 times to drag trees out of irrigation channels and around 4 snatches a week recovering work cars while I prefer to use the tow hitch where possible unfortunately there are places where I just cant do that if you take the time to assess the risks involved in every recovery then the front hook should be fine ive now had my patrol work ute for 5yrs and it has just about had everything thrown at it and dragged or snatched everything from trees to 4wds even tractors n trucks and the hook is still as strong as the day I got it

[patrol2.8]

Hey Tas great job new sticker looks great
Thanks Mate

[taslucas]

Good stuff mate. It fits nicely

Cheers

[kind]

Bloody toyota drivers

[Beno]

I know of two incidents in QLD where ppl have been killed. PROMOTE THE MESSAGE!!

[edsnm]

Bloody toyota drivers

OMG here in CR people already knows doing this is dangerous; but anyone i know have even see that happening.

Can I use te pic to show on a local (Costa Rican ) forum ?

[MudRunnerTD]

OMG here in CR people already knows doing this is dangerous; but anyone i know have even see that happening.

Can I use te pic to show on a local (Costa Rican ) forum ?

Absolutely, spread the word. Send the message Global.

[Punderhead]

U was riding around in some fire trails today. Come across a couple of guys trying to snatch a hung up hilux out of the ruts.

Both cars has the strap over the towball. I told them it was a no go, and showed them to pull out the hitch and use the pin. (They had no recovery points.) they listened cause on my way baxk out the triton was hung up in a different set of ruts!

Cheers