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Yesterday I applied something I learned here: safely attaching a tow strap
Yesterday somebody ( I can't mention any names....) tried to pull into a little drive with a steep culvert and didn't quite make it. When I went to pull her out I backed up to her truck and started to loop the strap around each ball, then I remembered a discussion here warning not to hook to hitch *****. So I removed the hitch on each truck and inserted the loop then stuck the pin through.
The ball breaking off is why it's not recommended. They're not designed to handle the load of a recovery. The d-ring shackle is.
Because pulling a 3500lb passenger car out of a ditch is so much more load than towing a 10,000+ lb trailer? That doesn't make sense to me, anyway. I see no way that ball is going to snap before the strap does.
Because pulling a 3500lb passenger car out of a ditch is so much more load than towing a 10,000+ lb trailer? That doesn't make sense to me, anyway. I see no way that ball is going to snap before the strap does.
I have seen both ball shanks and pintle hooks shatter and create projectiles. The pintle hook actually hit the hardhat of one of the guys on the work crew.
05-13-2018, 12:56 PM
) tried to pull into a little drive with a steep culvert and didn't quite make it. When I went to pull her out I backed up to her truck and started to loop the strap around each ball, then I remembered a discussion here warning not to hook to hitch *****. So I removed the hitch on each truck and inserted the loop then stuck the pin through.
