JamesDowning wrote:bobbyblaze wrote:Sorry James, It was a dynamic recovery with a static strap. I don't have any dynamic straps. I was moving my truck slowly foward to take up slack. You see it tighten and losen for a sec. Then I tightened and gave the signal to go.
My rear receiver D-shackle to his factory tow hook on the right side of his truck.
Well, your recovery was technically a static recovery.
A vehicle-vehicle recovery can be performed dynamically by having speed going into the extraction... or statically by doing exactly what you did (slowly letting the strap get taught and then proceeding forward with engine power).
Dynamic recoveries are especially helpful where you have poor traction - snow/ice/sand/mud - because the dynamic method can generate forces beyond that of your tire traction.
Dynamic straps are handy because they can be used in both static and dynamic vehicle-vehicle recovery, where a static strap can only be used in static recovery.
Exactly... I used my S-10 Blazer to pull lifted Ramcharger out of this (below), backwards... He was sitting on the rear bumper... Hooked my shackle mount and one end of my dynamic strap up to my Blazer, hooked my 3' piece of chain around his frame and through the other end of my dynamic strap... Backed right up to him, made sure we were ready, then went WOT forward in 4-LO...
I stopped pretty quickly, and he popped up in the air, and out he came... My neck muscles were pretty sore the next day...
