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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 07:26 AM
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Very good PDF on recovery by Purdue. Save a copy or read it online and stay alive.
I knew a guy killed back in the early nineties by this very thing.

https://www.extension.purdue.edu/ext...PPP/PPP-98.pdf
 
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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 09:18 AM
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You tricked me into thinking that wasn't 100 pages long, guess jokes on me for assuming.

That's why I don't use chains unless I have no other options or its a light pull. I always use straps with no d rings when it gets gnarly.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 10:05 AM
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All the information one needs! Make sure those clevises are rated for the pull and don't buy the ones for 10 bucks in the hardware store! At work another company/contractor had a stuck truck and ended having the trailer ball come flying through the back window and windshield just missing the drivers head... very close call
 
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Old Mar 7, 2015 | 10:25 AM
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Pintle hitches are great for yankin. Or, even safer, put the strap eye directly in the Reese pin. I have a 4" strap that has the eye smaller, but reinforced heavily, so it makes it to the pin.
 
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NSFW, but funny in a stupid, redneck kind of way...

I'm sure this all started when someone went "I'll get you out, here hold my beer."

 
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