PS- once you toss on the tow hooks, you'll understand the poor value of your free thimble.
Excuses my ignorance but why do you feel that thimbles don't add value? Or is it the particular brand?
PS- once you toss on the tow hooks, you'll understand the poor value of your free thimble.
Excuses my ignorance but why do you feel that thimbles don't add value? Or is it the particular brand?
Winching and vehicle recovery are inherently dangerous. Anytime one is involved in an inherently dangerous activity, there are rules you should live be to reduce the risks to more tolerable levels.Excuses my ignorance but why do you feel that thimbles don't add value? Or is it the particular brand?
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If you look at that and think any of that is a good idea, there's some learning that needs to happen.
First start with eliminating the F55 thing. Keep looking for ways to eliminate connections.How would you do this same attachment with a true safety thimble?
I'm not doubting, I'm actually genuinely curious.
First start with eliminating the F55 thing. Keep looking for ways to eliminate connections.
With a Safety Thimble, I see see at least two things that don't need to be there.
#3- winches are self recovery devices. As soon as you use them in another capacity, you introduce an entire higher level of risk and possible failure.
Here are a couple ways to reduce connections and also reduce the weight of the thing hitting you in the face.Correct me if I'm wrong, but if there was a safety thimble there, could you just use a soft shackle in place of the two shackles in that photo (I don't want to use D-ring, since I know that's not the correct term)?
Here are a couple ways to reduce connections and also reduce the weight of the thing hitting you in the face.View attachment 71487View attachment 71488
The Factor 55 isn't a THimble. A Thimble on rope is what keep the eye shape and keep from getting pinched. The Factor 55 stuff keeps the factory rope thimble in the rope pic above.Correct me if I'm wrong, but if there was a safety thimble there, could you just use a soft shackle in place of the two shackles in that photo (I don't want to use D-ring, since I know that's not the correct term)?
Well Blaine is right (obviously). I went out to the garage and tried to put the Factor55 Pro Link around the hook on the Savvy bumper and it won’t fit.
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Are there any hooks suitable for vehicle recovery that the F55 will fit onto without an extra shackle?
How would you do this same attachment with a true safety thimble?
I'm not doubting, I'm actually genuinely curious.
I would pull the "receiver to shackle adapter thing" out and put a soft shackle through the safety thimble and around the pin in the receiver.
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Which changes what I said in what way?I agree that we add in more risk connecting to another vehicle, however, I think that risk needs to be balanced with the other possible recovery methods. Around here trails change often based on weather conditions and a lot of times you need to be pulled out the way you went in rather than push on through a trail (either because the trail is impassable or because you ended up sliding into a position with a tree directly in front of you). A winch from another Jeep can allow for a much more controlled recovery than connecting a strap and pulling.
Yes, except that you can suck that mess through the rollers. (mess is a term of endearment)Heck, even putting a standard shackle on the wire with a few washers would be better than that 55 thingy me thinks.
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Which changes what I said in what way?