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Recovery Tips

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Boutime:
Thank you Dave, these are very valid points you raised. With only a hand full of recoveries I am very much a novice and unfortunately I have missed out on the I Venture trips so far :crybaby2:. But there is always next time. :notworthy:. This was my first recovery with the MUX and I was surprised how easy it was in the end.

You are right, in every recovery (even the most straightforward) safety is the most important. My bad.

 As a thought we should start a board on recovery tips, I think it will be most helpful to most to learn from practical situations.

I would like to learn more about the angle you are referring to. It looks like my entire approach to the recovery may have been incorrect. In the picture I have attached, I tried to reduce the angle labeled "x" to reduce the risk of rollover. I therefore moved over to the right of the path as much as practical and thought the driver side recovery point assisted with reducing the angle. It is very important for me to understand these things as I am planning more serious trips in the future and would like to get it right.

Thanks for the great works guys.

BMux:
Great idea for a thread!

Question for you Boutime: where did you have the strap connected too, the OEM "tow/recovery" points on the vehicle or did you have ARB recovery points?


--- Quote from: DmaxDave on Aug 12, 2015, 09:39:34 AM ---With straps, they are designed to stretch so keeping them flat and not twisted ensures maximun stretch and minimum damage to the strap.
--- End quote ---

Good info, that's what they taught us at the IVenture club too, along with using a damper on the strap, and the strap should be connected to the passenger side. They also said two straps were preferable (connect in serial, i.e. one long strap).

DmaxDave:
Yes two straps will stretch further providing more kinetic (?) energy to assist the recovery.

Dave

Boutime:
Thank you Dave, fantastic input. Much appreciated.

Will have to do a bit more practicing. I know a few Jeep owners, will invite them along on the next trip :laughing7:

Hey Battlemantis, still running with the factory points. Will have to invest in an upgrade and strap to spread the load.

It is also very easy in the heat of the moment to forget that the 4B chassis can be damaged especially with recovery at an angle. Also thanks for reminding me about forward rather than reverse. Good stuff, thanks guys.

knoath:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6mJa9io04

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