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re: Tow hitch breaks off during stuck-truck recovery, kills driver.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:35 am to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:35 am to LSU alum wannabe
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Como, “kinetic rope”??
Yankum Ropes
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, check out "Matt's Off Road Recovery" on YT. He's a big proponent of this equipment.
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Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:37 am to auggie
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All steel looks like that when it breaks. Break any of it that way and see how it looks.
Not really.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:46 am to GumboPot
Get out your porti-power, or your ener-pac, figure how you can even clamp it tight enough for the experiment( pro-tip, just use threaded rod), of any quality you want.
Pull it until it breaks, then look at the ends of it.
Pull it until it breaks, then look at the ends of it.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:49 am to auggie
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probably 20 bags of quikrete,
Explain this to me please.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:51 am to concrete_tiger
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Sorry if a repost, but holy cow. This guy died in front of his wife and kids when a drop hitch broke and shot thru the windshield. Horrible. Hopefully someone will see this and not try it.
The dumbest thing I've done in recent years was getting drunk and trying to dig up an old fence post in the backyard. I finally got pissed off and tied a tow strap around the post and hitched it to my truck. The old metal fence post broke off from the concrete and flew into the back of my truck.
This post was edited on 1/10/23 at 9:52 am
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:53 am to loogaroo
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Explain this to me please.
Like puttin raisins in your oatmeal.
Seriously though, I'm surprised you asked about the Quikrete before asking about the air.
This post was edited on 1/10/23 at 10:31 am
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:58 am to concrete_tiger
I just read the OP, and looked at the pics.
Has someone pointed out that the incredibly large amount of drop was destined to fail? That's the cheater pipe of drop hitches.
They thought they were getting a physics class on collision of masses and ended up with a physics class about leverage.
Has someone pointed out that the incredibly large amount of drop was destined to fail? That's the cheater pipe of drop hitches.
They thought they were getting a physics class on collision of masses and ended up with a physics class about leverage.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 9:59 am to concrete_tiger
Being a baw comes with risks
Posted on 1/10/23 at 10:01 am to Cosmo
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Being a baw comes with risks
That's about as true as it gets.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 10:07 am to GumboPot
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Not really.
Yall want everything to break on clean lines? Is that what you expect?
This post was edited on 1/10/23 at 10:20 am
Posted on 1/10/23 at 10:42 am to concrete_tiger
The same kind of accident killed the owner of Roadrunner Towing in Baton Rouge a few years ago.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 10:44 am to footswitch
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Willing to bet Chinese bullshite killed somebody.
If they hooked it to the actual receiver then he’d be alive. A hitch isn’t designed for that.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 10:49 am to tigersbb
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The same kind of accident killed the owner of Roadrunner Towing in Baton Rouge a few years ago.
I mean, the fact that it happened to him and not the owner of Riverside Towing could be proof that God is a myth.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 11:08 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Why's that? I never really thought about it much. I just always assumed a chain would be less prone to violent whipping failure than a cable.
you are sort of correct in your thinking, but when chain breaks the broken link will more than likely come off the rest of the chain so it is sort of like a bullet except larger. Wire rope will snap back in the same way but if you are in a vehicle you will more than likely be protected from the recoil. Wire rope does have more of a stretch in it as well.
ETA- The safest way to recover a vehicle this stuck is a winch. If the winch doesn't have the strength use as many snatch blocks as it takes. If you are ever in a situation where you have to jerk on something it would be better to use soft shackles, kinetic rope and hook to the recovery hooks on the front of the recovery vehicle and pull in reverse.
This post was edited on 1/10/23 at 11:16 am
Posted on 1/10/23 at 12:00 pm to Nado Jenkins83
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saw a guy get killed in Ohio by a chain that snapped. Shot through his rear window.
I tried to pull a guy out of mudhole one night and the chain snapped. My buddy told me to roll down my rear glass in my Bronco. Chain would have blown out my rear window. It did major dent damage to my tailgate.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 12:10 pm to billjamin
What are the brands you buy?
Posted on 1/10/23 at 12:16 pm to bbarras85
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ETA- The safest way to recover a vehicle this stuck is a winch. If the winch doesn't have the strength use as many snatch blocks as it takes.
This is the correct answer. Unfortunately, these folks found out the hard way that "hit it harder" is not the answer.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 12:44 pm to Breauxsif
From the pictures on the front page, looks like the steel failed due to high torque/torsion. Chevron marks on the outside indicate failure started on the outside moving inward. The material also shows no ductility indicating brittle fracture.
This guy died because someone tried to tow him out with a drop hitch made from cheap, weak steal. The combined stress from a bend and stretch load overloaded the steel and instantaneously fractured brittle.
This guy died because someone tried to tow him out with a drop hitch made from cheap, weak steal. The combined stress from a bend and stretch load overloaded the steel and instantaneously fractured brittle.
Posted on 1/10/23 at 2:01 pm to Koach K
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What are the brands you buy?
Normal duty stuff it's hard to beat B&W or bulletproof for adjustable ones. Other than that pick any of them that are solid and not hollow. Curt, Maxxhaul and Reese are ones we've vetted, they're typically cheaper, non-adjustable height but robust and can take the industrial abuse.
This post was edited on 1/10/23 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 1/10/23 at 2:19 pm to concrete_tiger
Late to this thread.
Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery did a really good video on this accident and provided some rules of thumb and equipment suggestions.
Worth a watch if you do any sort of recovery.
YouTube video
Colorado 4x4 Rescue and Recovery did a really good video on this accident and provided some rules of thumb and equipment suggestions.
Worth a watch if you do any sort of recovery.
YouTube video
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