Recovery Techniques

macleanflood said:
Short answer is probably no.

The "I've burned up at least two winch motors and am paranoid" answer is yes.

The better answer is this...where are you pulling from... maybe 30' away... sometimes a lot less... especially on narrow trails. So that means you have 50' of rope on the drum... it's 15 percent loss of power per layer of rope...so let's say you have 4-5 layers with that 50 of rope on the drum - roughly 50-60 percent...so your 8k winch is now less than 4k and that motor is hot and working.

Or you add a snatch block...that doubles your power to 16k...you run 60' off the drum for the double line...now your on layer 1 or 2 and getting close to the capacity of the winch.

A second snatch block/ring might be needed on a narrow trail... Recovery vehicle in front or behind... redirecting off a tree, rock, tire, land anchor, shrub to the side...to a second pulley on the rolled vehicle slider or a bridle to both axles...back to your anchor.

This scenario is why I carry three rings, one tree saver, a 20' and 30' strap and a 30' kinetic rope and plenty of soft shackles and one hard.

-Mac
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No trees and solid rock walls on both sides.
 
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Rubeyu said:
No trees and solid rock walls on both sides.
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I feel like this is where a pull-pal, or other ground anchor would come in handy. If you could some how anchor a pull pal perpendicular to the rig, in the soil, you could attach a pulley at that point, and run a winch line from a rig in front to the side of the rolled rig.
 
Last one I've been involved with. Friend of some friends took a trip to Moab. A couple of us new right away something was going to happen it was just a matter of time.
Well this was the second day on Hells Revenge at the Dragon Tail.
Dipshit got offline cresting the top
Rolled multiple times girlfriend was ejected out the front window she survived and was life flighted to Grand Junction. Truck was not getting out under its own power engine and trans broke loose bed mounted fuel tank left the chat entire contents of the truck was a yard sale all the way down hill. No way we were going to try to drag it out. He ended up calling Extreme 4x4 to help get it out. How would have handled this recovery?

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Rubeyu said:
Last one I've been involved with. Friend of some friends took a trip to Moab. A couple of us new right away something was going to happen it was just a matter of time.
Well this was the second day on Hells Revenge at the Dragon Tail.
Dipshit got offline cresting the top
Rolled multiple times girlfriend was ejected out the front window she survived and was life flighted to Grand Junction. Truck was not getting out under its own power engine and trans broke loose bed mounted fuel tank left the chat entire contents of the truck was a yard sale all the way down hill. No way we were going to try to drag it out. He ended up calling Extreme 4x4 to help get it out. How would have handled this recovery?

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Howdy, neighbor! Just saw you are from QC
 
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