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Thanks a heap guys!.
I joined these forums last weekish, and looked though a bit to find some safety facts about towing from a ball.
No more then hours later I was rung, told to get to salt creek and found myself 3 hours from home fishing on the beach.
On my way down the beach I was stopped and asked for a tow, the towee just so happened to sling the snatch em over the ball. Where I proudly stated, nah mate, you'll kill someone like that :P.
good on ya mate................ so how did ya end up towing him out?
Yep, well done mate. You never know, you might have saved someone life if not you're own
Well done mate with out the help of the forum there may have been another fatality
there are many more tips and ideas on here enjoy reading them
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Originally Posted by clunk71
or did they camp the night?Quote:
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Well the Forum may have just saved a life. Well done to ALL that have Contributed.
Nice one!
A shovel and attaching it securely to tow points on both vehicles, and instead of slamming it with my car as the others said, I slowly pulled her out, I've unstuck a few people off that beach now, please note none of them were patrols!
Good to see we have another converted follower (with regard to towballs) Keep spreading the towball gospel mate, welcome to the forum too!Quote:
Originally Posted by yakumo
Cheers, the ferret.
Good stuff mate, a ripper storyQuote:
Originally Posted by yakumo
Macca
Well done mate and thanks for the feedback, keep spreading word everyone.
Haha, you just posted that cos she's a toyo. :D
Ha ha, yep, but Toyo, Nissan, jeep, Pajero, HUMAN head, same size hole!!
Some you can panel beat, some ya can't.
And if yer fool enough ta use one of these, it's twice the hole!!!
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/t...allshackle.jpg
What's wrong with that? Or do you mean if used over a tow ball?
There is nothing wrong with the shackle mate, but the idea of using it to snatch from the towball is deadly.Quote:
Originally Posted by yakumo
You see mate, if the towball snaps off, the shackle will stay on the towball, and you could very well find you have a hole the size of a football right through your head.
Pretend that the apple in the link below is a human head, and the bullet is a towball, with or without shackle.
http://youtu.be/psLsU7qzyA0
Or this one!
http://youtu.be/f7J6qdei7vs
Hahaha. well put!
Yeah, just remember that a towball can travel about as fast as a shotgun load, whether your head is in the way or not and I doubt if you would even know about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by yakumo
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/t...rret/strap.jpg
Cheers, the ferret.
A picture says a thousand words.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ferret
Those pics are all you need to see to determine how safe a towball snatch is
Thanks for posting ferret
Yep, everytime someone asks a question about TOWBALL snatches, I put these pics up, boring for those who have seen them before, a learning curve for those who haven't!!
I dunno, Holmes, maybe I am just the sensitive type but that photo never seems to get boring for me.
Maybe it is the subtle way the towball goes through the front window, clean through the seat, and out the back window, taking the strap with it like threading a needle that could have been someone's fool head.
You know, untill you said that I never noticed it went through the seat as well. :S
Good on ya mate... Way to go...
I had never seen these pics before but I think they are a great tool to show the potential a tow ball has if used in a recovery. Thankyou.Quote:
Originally Posted by the ferret
Please continue to post both of them up.
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Originally Posted by the ferret
I think a bump is in order here.
well done mate
lucky for him it wasn't someone else who showed up. It may be obvious to experienced 4wders but to be honest, if you didn't know better and someone needed pulling it you might be tempted to think
'that towball's designed to hold a load, iI'll just sling the snatch over over that'. The only way to be sure these incidents stop happening is to make sure the message gets around