Recovery Lessons
 

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YouTube - VERY professional kinetic rope snatch recovery

YouTube - Recovery rope snapped dangerous

and some people dont understand why i go overboard.

The guys in the 1st vid should be using a snatch block on the winch & have a weight on the winch line for safety. When a line breaks it could go anywhere & I can't believe anyone would be stupid enought to put a clevis in the middle of a tow strap.
That guy in the 2nd vid. standing there was lucky he didn't get hit.

Adrian, have you been wheelin' again?

^lolol I thought the same thing. The guy with the shackle

I was hoping for casualties.

It's amazing how stupid people are these days... :-X15

In the first vid- is there any safety or recovery rules they DIDN'T break?

Shackle linking two snatch straps.

Winching with people within danger zone.

Using a tow ball to recover with snatch straps.

no blanket or absorber on the winch rope or snatch straps.

No digging beforehand.

Using too light of gear for the pull.


They are very lucky, to say the least.

you forgot one...

"having Euro-fail-mobiles."

Oh don't worry. They'll remove themselves from the gene pool sooner or later.

i always use this line at work,

"i can't fix stupid"

I love that both the videos involve Land Rovers. Maybe that means something...

I prefer the line
"people are stupid"

Those guys could use a lift or two.. maybe a set of M/Ts.. and perhaps some classes on how to go wheelin. ha ha they could also use a full size to follow them around and rescue their keisters with a little more ease. I've seen some pretty sketchy recoveries, but they weren't as bad as those. Just displays their inexperience. Good entertainment though :-missingt