Helped unflip a Jeep today

[vegascarnut]

Scary moment watching it flip over right in front of me at about 40 mph. He’s ok. Pulled it back over with a bumper strap. Jeep drove out but not ok at all.

 

[Truckasaurus]

He was doing 40 in that thing off road? Yikes.

Glad everyone is ok.

 

[vegascarnut]

He was doing 40 in that thing off road? Yikes.

Glad everyone is ok.

Yeah, between 30-40 when it got loose and over she went.

 

[Droid]

Wow, glad they're alright, awesome work getting it back upright.

Sorry to be that guy...and I'm not exactly super-experienced...but I gotta say it... that kind of strap is super dangerous (deadly). If it comes loose all the force that was pulling on a 5,000lb vehicle can accelerate that 5lb hook to a couple-hundred mph. Can go through doors, seats, heads, etc.

 

[dewalt]

Droid. Is that a Kenetic or a polyester strap? Big difference

 

[911 Crazy]

Wow, glad they're alright, awesome work getting it back upright.

Sorry to be that guy...and I'm not exactly super-experienced...but I gotta say it... that kind of strap is super dangerous (deadly). If it comes loose all the force that was pulling on a 5,000lb vehicle can accelerate that 5lb hook to a couple-hundred mph. Can go through doors, seats, heads, etc.

Good to know. So being a newbie, how should it be done?

 

[GCATX]

The integrated metal hooks are the issue with those straps. If you look at one up close, the metal loop the strap passes through is very thin and those hooks are junk. If you are around seasoned wheelers, they will tell you to put it away, or throw it in the trash.

If it's all you have, wrap a towel around the hooks, should one of them break, that will knock down most of the stored energy. Same goes with using a winch, we always wrap a towel around the cable.

 

[dewalt]

Well it looks like a tow strap, not a recovery strap. By the width better than 10000 pounds. Twice the weight of the jeep. The comments from the peanut gallery are humoris.

 

[dewalt]

How much stored energy is in a tow strap? About the same as a chain. Or a cable

 

[GCATX]

How much stored energy is in a tow strap? About the same as a chain. Or a cable

The same amount of energy that it takes to pull the vehicle back onto it's wheels, or until something breaks.