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calvinater Samba Member
Joined: September 06, 2014 Posts: 3327 Location: 802 The Pointless Forrest
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 4:22 am Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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Would have preferred the tractor and farmi winch , but I live on the other end of town about six miles away. _________________ "Albatross"! |
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PD41 Samba Member
Joined: May 30, 2016 Posts: 109 Location: Redondo Beach
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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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... |
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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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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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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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'62 L390 151, '62 L469 117, '63 L380 113, '64 L87 311, '65 L512 265, '65 L31 SO-42, '66 L360 251, '68 L30k 141, '71 L12 113, '74 ORG 181
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calvinater Samba Member
Joined: September 06, 2014 Posts: 3327 Location: 802 The Pointless Forrest
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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Well it worked . Just sayin' _________________ "Albatross"! |
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LeftToaster Samba Member
Joined: September 17, 2018 Posts: 26 Location: BC
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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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. |
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PD41 Samba Member
Joined: May 30, 2016 Posts: 109 Location: Redondo Beach
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PD41 Samba Member
Joined: May 30, 2016 Posts: 109 Location: Redondo Beach
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Two chains and a tire |
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Get a couple shackles to connect a tow strap to the vehicles.
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