12 Time for a check-up

      March 19, 2018      David Wilson

12 Time for a check-up
Easter’s coming and any gear pressed into recovery service needs heaps of TLC (that’s tender loving care). Snatch-straps, winch extension straps, tree protectors are all synthetic ropes with fibres that like to be clean and dry. If you’ve just dragged your snatch strap through the mud and to add insult to injury, driven a wheel over the strap in the process of de-bogging, you need to get it clean and dried out of direct sunlight and make a visual inspection. Any signs of fraying fibres with significant chafing or cuts (more than 5mm deep) probably mean it’s time for the scrap bin. Heaven forbid if you’ve used the strap for towing? Under static load the fibres will stretch and develop a memory for extension. The result, a strap that looks like a piece of Mafaldine pasta, a ribbon with wavy edges! It’ll break next time you use it because there’s no stretch left. ARB is the place to go for all your vehicle recovery gear.