Hi guys,
Just curious about this really as it makes no sense to me. The load ratings of recovery gear is spread out like a dogs breakfast when you look everything companies offer together.
It's more or less the same across different brands but I'll use ARB as an example. This is their line up of recovery gear and the things ratings.
(All converted to kg, off point but annoying how people rate half their gear in kg and half in lbs )
Winches: 4,309 kg, 4,535 kg and 5,443 kg options
Tree protector: 12,000 kg
Snatch strap: 8,000 kg
Snatch blocks: 7,000 kg and 9,000 kg options
Winch extension straps: 4,500 kg and 8,000 kg options
Shackles: 4,750 kg and 3,250 kg options.
Basically nothing lines up with anything else, not by a long shot.
The obvious questions are, to just use one combination as an example, what good is a 12 tonne tree protector when nothing else even comes close to it, by at least a 3 tonne gap if not more.
I won't list them all but you could come up with half a dozen different recovery situations combining different equipment and in all of them one of the pieces of equipment is going to have several tonnes less capacity making the additional strength of everything else connected useless.
I'm not expecting everything be perfectly matches to the kilo, but that extra strength doesn't come for free. For any of it to be stronger you need more steel or material which means more weight. Seems like so much waste.
Hope that makes sense