Awesome trip! Highlights of the trip were the Giant tent, shotgun incendiary rounds, John learning how to put his ford into 4wd, deep Fryday, learning that Marks $100 gun is armor piercing, The snore competition between ClayTK, Pa_jero and Mark and the priceless sight of a grown man throwing a fit over a self inflicted winch cable incident. I know you're still pissed but you should be happy and feel lucky that it happened how and when it did.
The Weakest Link:
This is a very simple, but crucial, and yet almost universally unknown or ignored concept. It's the one most likely to get you hurt or killed, or wreck your rig. It is the one I shall harp on about most in my article. The concept is this:
Every single piece of tackle used in a recovery operation, from tow hook to shackle to winch hook to wire rope end termination to the wire rope itself to the winch and to the winch mounting and structure of the vehicles themselves absolutely MUST be capable of SAFELY handling the loads that will be imposed. Let me say it again...EVERY PIECE. It's no good having a 12,000lb winch with a honking new 1/2" thick wire rope, if that wire rope terminates in an underrated hook, or even less obvious, has an improperly done end termination (very common - particularly the improper use of wire rope clips - more on this later).
I see this all the time, and I believe some major manufacturers are not terribly good about informing the buyers and users of their products of this concept.
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Billavista
