Guess tacos cant do everything

good call lol

 

Pulling isn't exactly the Tacoma's strong suit... They are just too light. Whenever I go rescue people in snow I have to rely on momentum to get the out (ie getting a running start and jerking them). Very rarely can I straight pull somebody. I usually just start spinning even locked front and rear and I am damn heavy for a Tacoma.

And they are right about the strap. Those hooks like to bend open and slip off whatever they are hooked to. A shackle will typically bend your frame or break your strap before it becomes a projectile.

 

I'm 8 hours north of you in Abitibi - and we still have TONS of snow.

 

Too easy for the strap/chain to slip off the tow ball.

If you don't have a D-ring shackle, it would be safer to loop the strap through the hitch pin instead, but you need to be pulling straight ahead to avoid the receiver tube cutting into the strap:

 

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This is what I meant by using the tow hitch , I should have been more clear

 

Would someone care to post a picture of those "shackles" ?
I am familiar with the double looped strap. They're expensive.

 

I used twisted clevises. Helps for wider straps.

 

SMART !

 

Other way around in Abitibi!

 

Nice to see a fellow Abitibian on here! Where are you located? I'm in Rouyn.

 

You are not alone. I share a moose camp on chemain du Rapid 2, near Cadillac. One of my partners lives in Val D'or.

 

It's not the trucks fault, it's the driver.

 

Thanks for the info. I have a plate bumper with shackles about to go on anyways, but this is important stuff to know.

 

You need to learn proper recovery tactics man. This shit is fucking dangerous. Glad you're not seriously hurt.

 

cool!!

 

ya i guess i didnt really think it was that serious, thanks all

 

Amos . For you southerners, it's -10F here this morning and I have 3 feet of snow in my back yard.

 

Here is what we use in the winter when the going gets rough.

 

that thing is too cool!!

 

x2. That's a tow hook, meant for a different purpose alltogether. Recovery straps or "snatch straps" don't have hooks and have great elasticity.