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Title: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: oldmate on July 26, 2013, 06:17:27 AM
Just saw this on another forum. Fo all the newbies, this is not how you safely recover a 4wd

How To Kill A Jeep (03/16/12) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6QrR5Uakeg#ws)
Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: Tjupurula on July 26, 2013, 06:51:09 AM
Hi Oldmate
Maybe the topic should ahv been, "Anyone need spare parts for a jeep - this is how to get them.
Tjupurula
Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: nbd73 on July 26, 2013, 07:13:11 AM
Videos like that make you wonder if ownership & use of snatch straps should be subject to obtaining a license just like driving. It's the 7th wonder of the world that nobody was hurt. With all the people involved you would think at least one of them might have had some clue about vehicle recovery.
But then the vehicle WAS a jeep!!
Title: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: oldmate on July 26, 2013, 10:34:09 AM
Yeah too true guys. It gets me why they didn't use they winch on the dodge for recovery? 
Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: muzza01 on July 26, 2013, 11:15:06 AM
Quote from: oldmate on July 26, 2013, 10:34:09 AM
Yeah too true guys. It gets me why they didn't use they winch on the dodge for recovery?
X2
I guess that is what happens when you drink Fosters Lager. ;D
Title: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: scarps on July 26, 2013, 11:34:16 AM
Yeah yeah yeah, again with the Jeep comments. lol

To me it's just a d### thing.  While it's always a good option to have a bigger one, no good if you don't know how to use it:-)

Yes a passionate Jeep owner, and have had 2 cherokees since new.  Been to 4wd training, added all the right mods, been where no Jeeps (or not many) have gone before including the Vic high country, but also recovered enough Toyo's and Nissa's to state my case. 

It's not how big or tough it is, more if you know how to drive it. And this guy was definitely a d###




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Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: Neil_cricket on July 26, 2013, 12:54:56 PM
One word describes them

Morons
Title: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: scarps on July 26, 2013, 02:28:03 PM
Pretty sure I also saw them snatching off the tow ball, which for any unitiated, is the biggest no no today.  Seen people killed by flying towballs.


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Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: berlitza on July 26, 2013, 02:51:39 PM
Just pure luck that the strap didn't didn't smack him in the head while hanging off the jeep, Nice looking jeep though I would give him $27 bux for it  ;D
Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: Spada on July 26, 2013, 03:45:20 PM
must be a jeep thing,

I just don't get it.
Title: Re: How not to recover your 4wd
Post by: GGV8Cruza on July 26, 2013, 04:57:39 PM
With some of the recovery scenarios shown in that clip its a wonder that people were not injured just not the jeep. Moral of the story, if it didn't come out first tug go and get a bigger one until it comes out, in one piece or ten.

GG