Recovery of un-equiped vehicles
Posted: 07 Jul 2020 14:30
I've been watching this guy's youtube videos for a while. He runs a business recovering stuck vehicles in Utah.
Most of the vehicles he recovers are not enthusiastic 4x4 owner's cars, and a lot of them are rented sedans (the old saying about an Avis Polo being the best 4x4), but often also full-size American pickups, motor homes and even the odd bus.
Thus he has a lot of experience hitching to vehicles that don't have good recovery points, but which may not always be incredibly badly stuck (although sometimes they are, even hanging on the edge of cliffs and stuff). Oh, and almost all his recoveries are snatch recoveries. His primary recovery vehicle is a quite-heavily-modified Jeep XJ.
This video has quite a lot of useful information on the equipment he uses, and where to attach if you don't have recovery points. I thought it might be useful, since one often gets opportunities to help "normal" people.
Most of the vehicles he recovers are not enthusiastic 4x4 owner's cars, and a lot of them are rented sedans (the old saying about an Avis Polo being the best 4x4), but often also full-size American pickups, motor homes and even the odd bus.
Thus he has a lot of experience hitching to vehicles that don't have good recovery points, but which may not always be incredibly badly stuck (although sometimes they are, even hanging on the edge of cliffs and stuff). Oh, and almost all his recoveries are snatch recoveries. His primary recovery vehicle is a quite-heavily-modified Jeep XJ.
This video has quite a lot of useful information on the equipment he uses, and where to attach if you don't have recovery points. I thought it might be useful, since one often gets opportunities to help "normal" people.