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100,000 pound tug strap showed up...

Yup. Like I said, about 95% of stucks that I have resolved, have been resolved with nothing more than a kinetic energy strap.

Did someone say "Hold my beer..." right before that happened?

Very cool bumper/winch, Elijah…

Thank you, Wes...

I have always had an electric winch to back up the strap on my off road vehicles, but about 95% of stucks can be resolved quicker and easier with the strap. An 18,000 pound electric winch is in the plans too, but it's further down the list of things to do right now.

While doing research on this, I just realized that the larger recovery straps I was looking at are two-ply, as compared to the single-ply 3" one that I used to use with my Suburbans. So an 8" two-ply strap would be more than five times as stout as a 3" single-ply strap. So I got an 8" two-ply...

When I have used recovery straps, I have found that the 30-footers end up being just about the right length. I am concerned that a 20-footer would not give enough room to generate much snap, and in the process of trying, would put the recovery vehicle close enough to the stuck vehicle that the...

Thank you, as always. That looked like a somewhat slight stuck, of a much lighter vehicle, and a fairly gentle tug without a lot of kinetic energy involved. How many 1.75" parachute straps was that?

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Wes, I'm not familiar- when I google "parachute straps" I see something that looks about 2" wide. Are you using 4-5 loops of that stuff? Is it springy like a commercially available recovery strap?

That's kinda what I was thinking. I always used a 30-foot long 3" wide (30,000-pound) tug strap with my two suburbans, the heavier of which weighed a little over 7,000 pounds, and that seemed to give just about the right amount of "snap". Four times a 3" strap would be a 12" wide strap, and...

A tug strap, not a tow rope.

The MTVR weighs about 30,000 pounds empty. I'm just spitballing here, but I can't see our total weight going over 40,000 pounds as a motorhome. In a 30-foot length, I'm guessing that I'm gonna need one in roughly an 8" width. What say ye?