What straps do I need with this come-along?

MiddleAgeSubie

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I bought this product for a friend in Moab:

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It arrived at home one day after I left for Moab. So, I want to make it operational.

What do I need?

A rope on one end with an eye and a hook that attaches to a rated shackle that goes into the bolt that comes with the car and bolts into the front/rear bumper?

On the other side, a tree-saver rope to which to attach the cable's hook?

I have no plans for using this for a car recovery. First, I try not to take chances. Second, the chance it can get me out of anything that I cannot exit on my own power seems very remote. However, I want it to be operational. I plan to carry it just in case. Who knows, once I had to pull a tree from the road, but there were others so we just teamed up. Next time, I may not be so lucky and the car may not be the best puller of whatever there is to be pulled, say it needs to go sideways.

Any suggestions and education are appreciated! :biggrin:
 
My thoughts would be, in order to make a reasonable general purpose kit, as below.
A pair or two of leather safety gloves as wire cables can fray and the little sticking out bits of wire are not nice embedded in your hands.
One or two 50 mm wide, 2 metre long, safety slings to go around the tree or whatever you need to latch on to.
A pair of good quality, suitably sized D shackles to attach to bolts, lug, eyes etc.
A length, say 10 metres, of a good rope, loops spliced into each end, with a breaking strain of a bit less than the wire rope with the come along. Rather the rope breaks than the wire breaks.
A suitably sized pulley block if you need to pull something sideways using the above safety sling around a tree along side the road.
A start anyway for others to add to.
 
I have something very similar to that. I reckon that it probably has a WLL (rolling load) of around 250 Kgs, and a SWL (dead lift) load of around 150 kgs, max.

The weight of the tool tells you heaps. My creeper winch weighs around 32 Kgs ...
It has a WLL of 2,400 Kgs, and a SWL of 1,600 Kgs.
 
ateday said:
A suitably sized pulley block if you need to pull something sideways using the above safety sling around a tree along side the road.
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A "snatch block" will do the job
 
Nah, mate.

The word you were looking for was "dangerous" .... or perhaps "downright dangerous".

There is simply no way that this device could possibly have any kind of working load of two tons - either WLL or SWL.
 
No, but it will probably move, ie pull, something out of the way onto the side of the road. Hence the low breaking strain rope.
Assuming a bag or some such thing is wrapped around the rope to prevent it flying about should work.
Given it is hand operated no jerking will take place so any movement should be relatively smooth.
 
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What you want is something more like that.

Or a high lift and a winch kit.
 
Exactly, Id.

Nothing like this sort of thing that's cheap is worth a bumper.

Most of the creeper winches on the market are the same. The one I have gets excellent reviews, as does the far more expensive .... (can't remember the name ATM - nearly brain dead ... ). Tirfor, that's it.
 
I suspect we are talking at cross purposes.
A come along this size would never be used to try and move a car. Certainly move something off the road and out of the way but useless to get a car out of trouble.
Go the whole hog and get a tirfor if you want to pull a car out of trouble.
 
My ARB Magnum seems to be nearly as unbreakable as a Tirfor, and around 1/3 the price new.

I suspect that the Tirfor has a considerably higher WLL and SWL than the ARB, but the point is moot when the ARB is more than adequate for the Forester. It has a SWL limit of 1,600 kgs, which is sufficient to safely dead lift an empty Forester. Almost certainly tear the car apart before it overloaded the winch!

However, MAS was talking of using this on his car as well, and it's patently going to break the first time that's done ... :puke:.
 
:rotfl:
LOL, what a thread has this become! I should as well delete it:monkeydance:

Considering the producer, the market, and the legal environment I can reasonably expect the product to pull 2 tons under perfect conditions, like wife's Tribeca out of the garage. Legitimate companies do not like posting "sue me" signs. I think it actually has a safety mechanism to prevent overload (I am not sure).

Considering its overall construction, light weight, and 6ft pulling distance alongside the traction capabilities of my car and the AT tires, the chances it can help if I do manage to get stuck are extremely remote.

For all of the above, from glancing over the reviews it is obvious that people use it to pull things around, including cars (not recovery).

So, smaller size and light weight make it actually useful for STUFF.

As for actual car recovery, the HiLift makes sense. It can also be used to lift a Subie if equipped with the wheel-lift feature. But it is a big and clumsy tool; traveling with family I would rather turn around if in doubt. Maybe when the boys grow up enough to be able to at least stay out of the way I will consider some more "serious" equipment. An inflatable bag that lifts the vehicle using the exhaust sounds like a neat thing to have, but I am not sure how it works with dual exhausts.
 
ateday said:
My thoughts would be, in order to make a reasonable general purpose kit, as below.
A pair or two of leather safety gloves as wire cables can fray and the little sticking out bits of wire are not nice embedded in your hands.
One or two 50 mm wide, 2 metre long, safety slings to go around the tree or whatever you need to latch on to.
A pair of good quality, suitably sized D shackles to attach to bolts, lug, eyes etc.
A length, say 10 metres, of a good rope, loops spliced into each end, with a breaking strain of a bit less than the wire rope with the come along. Rather the rope breaks than the wire breaks.
A suitably sized pulley block if you need to pull something sideways using the above safety sling around a tree along side the road.
A start anyway for others to add to.
Click to expand...

Thanks, good post!
 
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