Two chains and a tire

[calvinater]

Would have preferred the tractor and farmi winch , but I live on the other end of town about six miles away.
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"Albatross"!

[PD41]

Big ships dock lines are pretty intense. Kinda like giant rubber bands when they snap. A few years back one snapped at the Port of Los Angeles and took the head off a Chinese deckhand on the ship.

A female tug boat deck hand from Catalina was killed when a tug line snapped.

I think you guys are nuts for using chains and not straps...

[hitest]

If the rigging chosen exceeds the break limit of the job at hand...

A major rigging company not far from me makes straps and wire rope- and resells chain. Main clients are mining. forestry and commercial trucking. Their load testing equipment is state of the art. They can test anything and their products reflect that cost. Boise Rigging Supply is the name.

Knowing how to sew the ends of straps is essential. Often what people find on Amazon or at FLAPS are nowhere near strong enough to pull a hillbilly out of a mud bog. The typical hick-type will look at their stuck-in-mud 4000lb jeep and hook on to it with a 5000lb-rated strap- that'll do after all- that's like a way higher number... Their strap could really only support 5000lbs of chicken feathers in a sling.
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[calvinater]

Well it worked . Just sayin'
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[LeftToaster]

When I was about 21, I worked a summer for a contractor who had a shake mill. He got a contract to harvest the cedar logs from the slash piles where they were slashing timber behind a hydro dam that was under construction in BC.

The workflow was simple - find the cedar logs in the slash pile. Put a choker (basically a chain noose) around the log. Hook the choker to the main line steel cable and pull the log out with a D6 Caterpillar. Then myself and another guy would buck it into to blocks for the mill with chainsaws and stack the blocks on a truck.

Halfway through the summer, the cat operator quit, so the mill owner said he would run the cat. The first time he hooked onto a log, he put the cat in forward gear while simultaneously taking up the slack on the cable with the winch. The steel main line came taught like a guitar string. He thought it was quite the joke that we were all diving for cover and then screaming at him.

The second time he did it, the cable snapped and cut a furrow in the protection cage on the Cat about 3' long. Not so funny anymore. Without the cage he would have been decapitated.

[PD41]

Chain snaps and almost hits dumbass kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95uG3t8FXvQ

[PD41]

Get a couple shackles to connect a tow strap to the vehicles.