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4x4 recovery · Ropes, straps & shackles

Ropes & Recovery Gear

What a snatch puts through your strap or kinetic rope and its shackles, which ones suit your two vehicles, and what safety lanyards, tree protectors and bridles are each for. With a source for every number.

Set up the snatch on the picture: type both vehicles' mass and the strap's breaking strength on them, pick the strap or rope, and drag the speed. Everything updates as you go.

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Try:
Strap
On the vehicles
Speed when it goes tight

SECURETECH suggests 18 km/h for two vehicles of similar mass (source).

The snatch, moment by moment

Force in the strap

0 kgforce now

    Strap or rope for the stuck vehicle

    Shackles, steel and soft

    Pull on the shackle off in-line
    kg

      Safety straps: three different jobs

      A safety lanyard, a tree protector and a bridle all look like short straps or ropes, but each does a different job and is rated differently. Don't swap one for another.

      1 Safety lanyard holds the gear if something lets go

      2 Tree protector ties the rope to the anchor

      On a single line, at most your winch's rated pull, in kg.

      3 Bridle shares the pull between two points

      Why speed matters so much
      Breaking strength (MBS) and WLL
      What this page can't tell you