Recovery straps/snatch straps/towing

[Cooper]

What is your set-up?

Do you used the snatch/snap straps? Or just a plain tow strap to get a vehicle out from being stuck?

What would you recommend on length and Breakstrain?

[ninja.turtle007]

Kinetic ropes can be deadly, especially for people with little experience.

Most of us have a rope with tested shackles, waffle boards and a spade as our basic kit.

[Cooper]

The d shape shackles right?

What is the best breakstrain?
What length?

[ELVIS]

Recovery kit is an arguement/discussion/debate that could go on forever with everyone having their own favourites/opinions.

IMHO stay away from all the fancy stuff if your just learning and want to get to grips with the basics. Save dyneema/snatch lines etc for another day.

If you go back to basic pysics at skool.......................

If your syncro ways 2tonnes say with all your make up and hair starighteners in, when breaks down it dosnt necessarily weigh two tonnes!!

In an ideal world your van will break down in asda car park with fully inflated tyres on smooth,level tarmac. It never does.......

IF you break down on a 45' slope (or indeed the vehicle you are pulling) in thick mud that is infront of the wheels acting as a wedge/brake and also is sucking/causing vacumm on tyres, gearbox is stuffed and drive shafts seized (then add any other cataostrophe you can think of) your 2t syncro (or vehicle being pulled) suddenly 'weighs' helluva lot more.

IMHO, for now stick with a couple of shackles and a half decent strop. Go for minimum of 4t strop - cant imagine needing more than that for now -- and get shackles that are rated HIGHER than the strop - if anything gives you want the strop to go first - if the shackles break first they are less forgiving when flying overhead

Get ya'sel a bulldog shovel or similar to clear muck from underneath.

Get yourself in the company of folks that will teach you, ask around on the forum or get to a pay and play site and ask for pointers on recovery.

Sand ladders/waffle boards/winches/snatch blocks are for another day. Get the basics covered first and get the basic neccesities.

Buy a land rover mag, someone will have offers etc on for kit.

[ELVIS]

And to speak the obvious, the art is not getting stuck in the first place with good driving techniques (not saying getting is stuck is always down to bad driving though) but by picking a good driving line/road speed/gear/engaging diffs when or if appropriate etc you can minimise the risks.
As previous-practice in the company of folks willing to show/teach/help you

[Cooper]

Cheers for the good advise:)

[Syncrobaz]

There is a serious point here,towing,especially " snatching"can be very dangerous.Wasn't there a thread on here recently where some poor sole was killed when the tow hitch of the stuck vehicle tore loose and went through the windscreen?
Offroading is VERY dangerous,especially to the inexperienced.

[Titus A Duxass]

....a half decent strop.

Agreed! There's nothing like a half decent strop.