Worst case - pull the hitch, slide the recovery loop in and just use the pin … it’s a little fiddly, but safer than using the ball. Update: I’m not suggesting this as a preferred alternative to having the correct gear just the best worst option. You should always carry the right recovery gear when off road. Madmatt 4wd has done a long video on using the hitch pin to recover - before commenting - go watch that. He talks about failure points and loading. Don’t have bystanders when recovering (regardless) , recover gently rather than slingshotting the car to the moon, use alternate controls to reduce flick back…
No. This is almost guaranteed to fail, as it’s placing the hitch pin in bending, rather than shear as it is designed for. Use equipment designed and rated for the load, or walk away.
@@TWeatherford88suspect you may never have tried to bend a bit of rod that thick. Again, we are talking last resort, choice between loosing a vehicle and bending a pin? Bend the pin.
Something I learned in tree work when using ropes winch cables or straps. We would always toss a pair of chaps dead center of the line between the two points. If the line broke or slipped off it would only swing back half the length of the line. Rather than the whole thing coming through a window.
Excellent lifesaving advice right here. Alot of people wish they had known this right at the moment a ball hitch was traveling through their face at high speed.
I went on a tour of the Arapahoe County Coroner's office in Colorado and they had an x-ray of a tow hook embedded in someone's head. What a freak accident.
@@LexusGX460-OFF-ROADNo, it isn't. Only people who are going to agree with you are people who never took or failed physics. It's not extra yeet force, the yeet force is linear and equal at both points, but there are extra torquey bois tryna snap the hitch.
From this, I gather there are 2 critical factors to consider: 1. Use a straight hitch 2. Use a one-piece hitch I imagine material and construction matters too. Like steel vs iron, and forged vs. cast
I still would highly recommend against it man. The force that thing is coming at you at is just ridiculous. A really good snatch and it may even go through the hood.
Good idea, I bet you use 20 gauge steel as protection from bulletts too :( but you do you I mean if your life isn't worth the $35 for the recovery hitch to you then it isnt to me either!
When I tow strap vehicles, I wrap the strap around the trailer hitch first and then attach the loop to the ball mount... no need for fancy expensive "recovery" add ons
@@platinum6978for most things it really doesn’t matter, but certainly is something to consider when analyzing a pull. The considerations for pulling out a geo metro that’s hung up on a bit of snow is a very different pull then a pickup buried up to the bumpers in thick mud.
the most important part is knowing what your gear is rated for. you can have the strongest rope in the world but if you yank off the anchor point its still going to kill you just as fast as any chain or cable will
That exact thing happened to a friend of mine.. a guy offered to pull him out of a ditch. The chain let loose and exploded his rear window. Goo thing he wasn't being pulled forward.
You’ll never see Matt give it the beans when pulling on a ball. It’s always well within limits of the equipment. Every one of these fails I’m sure had a healthy dose red neckery and probably a few of them started with “Hold my beer!”
I have tons of video evidence proving this comment incorrectly, also I have a lot of text messages from Matt where he is demanding me to approve ball hitches because he has been using them for 40 years he aslo blew up a few safety videos saying we are full of crap and just trying to make people spend money just use the balll hitch etc.. and this was like a month after a guy died in Arizona from a busted drop hitch, and our video was strictly talking about the drop hitch design and why they fail not the stupid tribal he uses.
The craziest mechanical leverage that I'm aware of is how much force is extruded on your lower back when you fully extend your arm and put one penny on your middle finger 🤯
Mikes Towing here. Absolutely; and you’re the first OR recovery guy that has put the math down. That was very good. People don’t realize how much there is to doing a recovery correct. Then y’all scoff at the price. Recovery is thinking man’s work and thinking costs. Love this video.
Elastic "kinetic recovery" rope or static line will yeet the ball hitch once the failure point is reached, I agree that the shock or dynamic loading is lower with a kinetic recovery rope, but catastrophic failure is does not change once break strenth is exceeded.
It’s better to have the correct gear from harbor freight then not be able to afford any of it, not everyone can afford top shelf recovery gear or will use it often enough to warrant it. Personally I actually use the harbor freight recovery gear, it’s cheap enough if it gets damaged or ends up in someone else’s truck i don’t care. Only thing I’ve had fail was a tree sling but I was jerking on it with a skid steer so it was well outside of its intended use
Im not a rocket surgeon but i don't know why *anyone* would want to use their tow ball for recovery. When I built the bumper for my truck, i have a solidl, frame-mounted hitch which can take tons of straight pull force *and* two shackle mounts/shackles, one on each side, above the hitch level, for alternative and/or additional pulling points. I can pull a tank out and not sheer anything off. 😊
It is more common than you think. As a younger kid not knowing any better I have used the tow ball to uproot unwanted bushes in the yard and to pull out of ditches. This was all before I bought a real off road vehicle and took the time to research the correct way to do things. Still pulling a honda Civic out of being stuck in a mud puddle(what I did) is a bit different strain than recovering a bog down 4 x 4!
@@mynameisprivate158 Everyone pushes things past limits sometimes, it's what we do. But... There comes a point when a little bit of common sense has to enter the picture. 😆 Especially when you're in this position and not driving a Honda Civic. 😉
Remove hitch pin, remove hitch, insert tow strap in empty receiver, reinsert hitch pin. Simple, cheap, and available any time you would have the option to use a hitch.
@natec599 that is bad bad information. I agree it sounds good, but in reality it is not good practice. You can bend /break the pin. If it doesn't break it can easily bend then it lets the strap fly out, if it's a long pin to where the end don't shorten up enough to pull it out of the receiver as it bends,, well, then it's will be permanently stuck in there. The reason to insert a hitch link in a hitch receiver is because the shear strength of the pin. You can easily bend the pin in the center, but you can not easily shear it on the points of contact with the hitch link. Hope my poor way of explaining it makes sense.
yeah do this if you like having to cut your hitch off and replace it or spend hours with the sawzall cutting the pin from the inside. you will bend that dam pin and it will not come out
@@imchris5000 I have never bent a pin, I like to use class v though, but if I did… I would use a torch… if I didn’t have a torch I would air arc it. If I didn’t have an air arc I would use a cutting wheel on the outside and punch it out… I don’t think a saws all would ever enter my mind, and if it would indeed take hours to cut the pin with a saws all, then it would hardened so it would be more likely to snap than bend.
@@robertg9334 correct. I’m just saying If anyone is thinking about a hitch as their only option consider the pin as a better option. All I’m saying. I’d rather have a bent pin than a broken hitch in my head.
Wait im cornfused another Matts off rd recovery 😂😂😂😂 well i subbed to ya buddy because you are in my area and the other ones way out west im in north Ga i watch his channel every video and hv for around 3 yrs now but ive never came across your channel but ill start watching tho lol
I like the welded tri-ball setup that Matt with Winder towing uses for the light duty jobs that don’t require a lot of force. I have the factor 55 as shown.
I don't have the attachment with the loop for the receiver. I usually stick the strap inside the receiver tube and put the pin in through the strap loop. Double shear points on the pin makes it pretty strong.
that is bad bad information. You can bend /break the pin. If it doesn't break it can easily bend then it's stuck in there. The reason to insert a hitch link in a hitch receiver is because the shear strength of the pin. You can easily bend the pin in the center, but you can not easily shear it on the points of contact with the hitch link. A better method would be to throw the stupid 5/8" pin away and just loop the strap around the whole hitch if you ain't buried it. As long as there is nothing to cut the strap. I've seen a few bent pins. If it has worked for you so far it's only because you have not done any serious loading on it. Which is good.
@@ifyoutip I don't do serious loading. I don't snatch hard or anything like that. Just basic slow soft pulls. I don't really get into anything extreme enough to need to snatch or pull super hard.
If you don't have a proper recovery hitch, pull the hitch out of the receiver and run your strap in the receiver with the hitch pin holding it. It isnt the best but it's a hell of a lot safer than using a ball hitch.
Pintle ring in 2in receiver tube using a 5/8 grade 5 bolt. Solid recovery point. 👍 I grimace every time I see people using bad ideas to recover stuff. Yes, a grade 8 is stronger, but when it fails, it snaps or shatters. Grade 5 normally bends before rapidly breaking. I've snapped off many grade 8 bolts
good point. I never had to pull out of bad situations like that but have pulled flat with a ball 100s of times. now i know if it gets real dont ues a drop ball. TY
I've been in sticky spots and removed the hitch using just the hitch pin with rope rewrapped around it. If the hit pin bends or breaks ratchet extensions slide right in and work. When I first got into off road and was known as the guy to get you out, I had a 1972 f250 with a welding shop bumper on it. That bumper cleanly snapped several 2.5" receivers off one tons that where stuck. I've never had a hitch go into low earth orbit. Kinda hard when they're in the bed
I've used a triple ball hitch for general pulling but then again I have an actual 20k break strength recovery strap safes a lot of pulling 40 bucks well spent 😊
It's not that ball hitches are a problem, it's that drop hitches with people that don't understand levers are a problem. Your first failure example wasn't a hitch breaking, it was the front tow point. However there is a few drop hitch failures to use as examples. Yes a soft shackle hitch is good but a non drop ball hitch is still much stronger than the strap you could attach and also stronger than the bolts holding the tow bar assembly into the thin pressed steel chassis. But good on you for helping Factor55 sell their accessories. Even more good on you for trying to educate people about leverage.
I used to drive a tow truck for and this was always something I’d see people try to do. They would also try and put the chain hook inside of the chain links before they started to pull. They didn’t understand how the hook actually has a slot for the chain.
What we see in this video - the cable & attachment breaking off the towed vehicle and flying off through the rear & f glass of the tow vehicle - is true, although it may seem impossible. Physics can prove this, just as well as the video itself does. Don't scrimp on your tow equipment! 👏👍💪☝️ 🫡🫡
In addition to this. If you don't have a recovery shackle mount but do have a receiver hitch. Remove the ball mount and slip a soft shackle or the loop of a recovery rope or strap into the receiver using the hitch pin as the connection through the loop.
I mean for towing purposes I’ve used the ball, but what I do is I loop it around the hitch in some way then I have it wrap back around the ball, so it takes up any slack and then the tow strap cinches itself around the ball.
When we do sugar beet harvest and the trucks - both straight trucks and semi trucks - would get stick in the mud we used to use log chains or thick tow ropes on the pull tractor to pull them out. For the last few years we have used Safe-T-Pull and that is so much nicer than the old log chain and tow rope
Man, there was a 19yr old guy in the area who was killed a couple years back trying to pull a stranger out of the ditch. He was a good kid and was always ready to help anyone. Sucks, he had a newborn at home too. 😢😢😢 It really torn the community up.
We always use chains with a catch link for this reason. D HOOK also work great in the middle for tension releases! But idk nada i just live in the backwoods😅
I always use the 55 metric ton (120 000 pound ish) rated towing line I have for my tractor and shackles to secure both ends firmly. If something would go wrong it would most likely drop right to the ground.
another way, remove ball hitch... insert the loop of the rope into the hitch.... insert pin into hitch. now if the pin breaks there is nothing to be launched but rope. also (in a hard pull) you can throw a welding blanket over the rope. if it pin snaps the rope will drop to the ground with the weight of the blanket. both have work for me
Good advice, apart from the ball drop/ leverage bit. The reason you don't use the ball is because the shank can't handle the bending/ leverage. If you're not going to buy a recovery hitch, put the strap in the receiver and put the hitch pin through it.
Yeet force!!!! Physicists approve this message.
Grammar certainly does not approve
@@tlc5343it's a youtube comment section... get over yourself
@@tlc5343Grammer does not care if you use slang...
That’s not the correct language at all. Not scientifically accurate.
It’s called yoink force.
They need to teach this at school lol
Worst case - pull the hitch, slide the recovery loop in and just use the pin … it’s a little fiddly, but safer than using the ball. Update: I’m not suggesting this as a preferred alternative to having the correct gear just the best worst option. You should always carry the right recovery gear when off road. Madmatt 4wd has done a long video on using the hitch pin to recover - before commenting - go watch that. He talks about failure points and loading. Don’t have bystanders when recovering (regardless) , recover gently rather than slingshotting the car to the moon, use alternate controls to reduce flick back…
No. This is almost guaranteed to fail, as it’s placing the hitch pin in bending, rather than shear as it is designed for.
Use equipment designed and rated for the load, or walk away.
@@TWeatherford88suspect you may never have tried to bend a bit of rod that thick. Again, we are talking last resort, choice between loosing a vehicle and bending a pin? Bend the pin.
Wrap it around the catalytic converter and save the thieves some trouble removing it
@@mike6932… still can’t believe people steel that stuff !!?! Totally nuts hey.
I hook it on the safety chain hole. It looks about as sturdy as the hook on the car I'm pulling out. Is that cool?
Something I learned in tree work when using ropes winch cables or straps. We would always toss a pair of chaps dead center of the line between the two points. If the line broke or slipped off it would only swing back half the length of the line. Rather than the whole thing coming through a window.
Aka winch weight...
This is the way with any line under stress.
Some of my first memories is 4 wheeling with my family and seeing my dad put the cable through a spare tire.
We just welded heavy gage wire over the window because stupid will happen
That sounds interesting. I can't picture that in my mind, you would toss something flying at 50 or more mph.
More videos on the Internet need to be about saving lives not messing with retail workers
Consider who is uploading each type of video.
@@jonWilk8156yeah but that doesn't follow this dudes narrative though.
…..wait…what…??🤨
Life-saving advice on this one 👍
Excellent lifesaving advice right here. Alot of people wish they had known this right at the moment a ball hitch was traveling through their face at high speed.
Hope this info saves lives. People need to taught the safest way.
Was gonna say. One of the best explanations I've seen.
Also doesn't mention squat about not trying to snatch with non snatch rated snaps. Which were most of those fails shown.
I went on a tour of the Arapahoe County Coroner's office in Colorado and they had an x-ray of a tow hook embedded in someone's head. What a freak accident.
Holy shit that's wild. I've been snow machining on Mt. Arapahoe on vacation and almost watched my buddy roll off the side of the mountain.
@@DH-rt3fk Arapahoe county is in the Denver metropolitan area.
Halloween tour?
Not that freaky. It happens more than you would think
No such thing as a freak accident
Thank you for the explanation. I always heard don't use a hitch, but never heard an explanation as to why
your a natural teacher man, presented well, right to the point and easy to understand. Thank you for the vid!
man you really gotta appreciate a good teacher.
That’s not quite how couple forces work, but the general message of “don’t recover from a tow hitch” is a good one.
that's exactly the forces work ❤
@@LexusGX460-OFF-ROADNo, it isn't. Only people who are going to agree with you are people who never took or failed physics.
It's not extra yeet force, the yeet force is linear and equal at both points, but there are extra torquey bois tryna snap the hitch.
Thank you for not just showing us how not to do it, but showing us the right products and math to do it correctly. Great video!
the correct way is no steel that can fly off.
Never a bad idea to have two of those receivers... Just in case the guy you're pulling doesn't have one for himself.
Exactly! Often the dude who’s stuck doesn’t know what they’re doing so don’t have ANY gear. 🙄
Walmart brand Matt’s Off-road Recovery
Lmao. More like dollar general tho?
Sure. Do you make the same money that he does? Love to see the hate comments.
Dollar tree discount rack 😅
Clover valley recovery lmao.
@@glockshooter187 he doesn’t care what you say, you helped him grow by the comment and watching it, just like my comment here.
From this, I gather there are 2 critical factors to consider:
1. Use a straight hitch
2. Use a one-piece hitch
I imagine material and construction matters too. Like steel vs iron, and forged vs. cast
I always tell people if your using a hitch please pop your hood and or toolbox to try and not get sent to the shadow realm by your Reese hitch lol
I still would highly recommend against it man. The force that thing is coming at you at is just ridiculous. A really good snatch and it may even go through the hood.
Good idea, I bet you use 20 gauge steel as protection from bulletts too :( but you do you I mean if your life isn't worth the $35 for the recovery hitch to you then it isnt to me either!
A guy i was in school with in the late 70s is a vegetable because a ball went through the back of his head.
I knew a girl like that but she preferred all balls to go thru her head come to think of it i know a drag queen too??
😳
everyone who goes off road needs to understand everything happening here.
When I tow strap vehicles, I wrap the strap around the trailer hitch first and then attach the loop to the ball mount... no need for fancy expensive "recovery" add ons
@@platinum6978 I would like to offer you a early congrats on your Darwin award!
@@platinum6978for most things it really doesn’t matter, but certainly is something to consider when analyzing a pull. The considerations for pulling out a geo metro that’s hung up on a bit of snow is a very different pull then a pickup buried up to the bumpers in thick mud.
the most important part is knowing what your gear is rated for. you can have the strongest rope in the world but if you yank off the anchor point its still going to kill you just as fast as any chain or cable will
Matts off road might disagree about the ole tri ball. But drop hitches yea probably not a good idea
That exact thing happened to a friend of mine.. a guy offered to pull him out of a ditch. The chain let loose and exploded his rear window. Goo thing he wasn't being pulled forward.
This needs to be everywhere. I still run across wheelers that don't know this.
Thank you for explaining it a way my buddies with more dollars then cents will understand!!! Truly thanks!!!💪
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I appreciate that
You’ll never see Matt give it the beans when pulling on a ball. It’s always well within limits of the equipment. Every one of these fails I’m sure had a healthy dose red neckery and probably a few of them started with “Hold my beer!”
I have tons of video evidence proving this comment incorrectly, also I have a lot of text messages from Matt where he is demanding me to approve ball hitches because he has been using them for 40 years he aslo blew up a few safety videos saying we are full of crap and just trying to make people spend money just use the balll hitch etc.. and this was like a month after a guy died in Arizona from a busted drop hitch, and our video was strictly talking about the drop hitch design and why they fail not the stupid tribal he uses.
@@matt.mckinzieWho is the Matt that you are referring about?
Matt who?
There's a guy named Matt in my town,
He run LJM construction,
He's an idiot 😢
@@Person-ly6imim guessing matts offroad recovery
The craziest mechanical leverage that I'm aware of is how much force is extruded on your lower back when you fully extend your arm and put one penny on your middle finger 🤯
The difference between Matt's off road recovery (Utah) and Off road recovery Matt (Florida) is just how you'd expect it to be 😂
Mikes Towing here. Absolutely; and you’re the first OR recovery guy that has put the math down. That was very good. People don’t realize how much there is to doing a recovery correct. Then y’all scoff at the price. Recovery is thinking man’s work and thinking costs. Love this video.
Very well presented vid 👍
Thank you! 👍
Stainless tri-ball works just the same. Problem is they are not using an elastic recovery rope and all force is hits like a hammer on a gun.
Elastic "kinetic recovery" rope or static line will yeet the ball hitch once the failure point is reached, I agree that the shock or dynamic loading is lower with a kinetic recovery rope, but catastrophic failure is does not change once break strenth is exceeded.
Thank you for saving me life. Great lesson
I needed to hear this. Much appreciated!
Don't go cheap on ANY chain, rope nor shackle.
It’s better to have the correct gear from harbor freight then not be able to afford any of it, not everyone can afford top shelf recovery gear or will use it often enough to warrant it. Personally I actually use the harbor freight recovery gear, it’s cheap enough if it gets damaged or ends up in someone else’s truck i don’t care. Only thing I’ve had fail was a tree sling but I was jerking on it with a skid steer so it was well outside of its intended use
@@jaydunbar7538
Did the block fail or the sling?
I really appreciate your response.
We do that 2 foot from a anchor tree but thats if we NEED to anchor usually chock the wheels park brake and winch either in the bed or front bumper
Maybe Dollar General now has it’s own version of Matt’s Off Road Recovery. 😂😂
Matt with offroad recovery. Sounds alot like matts offroad recovery
Putting a jacket, sandbag, backpack, etc on the line helps too
helps if the rope snaps wont do much if you have a 2lb steel ball flying at your head!
Im not a rocket surgeon but i don't know why *anyone* would want to use their tow ball for recovery. When I built the bumper for my truck, i have a solidl, frame-mounted hitch which can take tons of straight pull force *and* two shackle mounts/shackles, one on each side, above the hitch level, for alternative and/or additional pulling points. I can pull a tank out and not sheer anything off. 😊
It is more common than you think. As a younger kid not knowing any better I have used the tow ball to uproot unwanted bushes in the yard and to pull out of ditches. This was all before I bought a real off road vehicle and took the time to research the correct way to do things. Still pulling a honda Civic out of being stuck in a mud puddle(what I did) is a bit different strain than recovering a bog down 4 x 4!
@@mynameisprivate158 Everyone pushes things past limits sometimes, it's what we do. But... There comes a point when a little bit of common sense has to enter the picture. 😆 Especially when you're in this position and not driving a Honda Civic. 😉
I never understood the never do this concept until now. Amazing explanation, thank you this video could save my life, thank you
Keep putting out that important message. Save lots of lives. Good job Bro.👍👍👍👍
Remove hitch pin, remove hitch, insert tow strap in empty receiver, reinsert hitch pin. Simple, cheap, and available any time you would have the option to use a hitch.
Tighter pull point increases chances of snapping, but in a pinch
@natec599 that is bad bad information. I agree it sounds good, but in reality it is not good practice. You can bend /break the pin. If it doesn't break it can easily bend then it lets the strap fly out, if it's a long pin to where the end don't shorten up enough to pull it out of the receiver as it bends,, well, then it's will be permanently stuck in there. The reason to insert a hitch link in a hitch receiver is because the shear strength of the pin. You can easily bend the pin in the center, but you can not easily shear it on the points of contact with the hitch link. Hope my poor way of explaining it makes sense.
yeah do this if you like having to cut your hitch off and replace it or spend hours with the sawzall cutting the pin from the inside. you will bend that dam pin and it will not come out
@@imchris5000 I have never bent a pin, I like to use class v though, but if I did… I would use a torch… if I didn’t have a torch I would air arc it. If I didn’t have an air arc I would use a cutting wheel on the outside and punch it out… I don’t think a saws all would ever enter my mind, and if it would indeed take hours to cut the pin with a saws all, then it would hardened so it would be more likely to snap than bend.
@@robertg9334 correct. I’m just saying If anyone is thinking about a hitch as their only option consider the pin as a better option. All I’m saying. I’d rather have a bent pin than a broken hitch in my head.
only use clevis with threaded bolt. do not use ones with kept in place by a small pin to hold the big pin in. i have seen those pull apart being used.
The small pins should be banned. Use a rated fold over circle or D type pin.
@@xwhite2020 I have seen those sheared off. the shackle gets turned sideways and the force of the shackle opening apart shears it off.
Great tip thanks for sharing im gonna check your channel for a full vid if not i hope you make one thats great advice for us jeep guys lol
I learned several things from you in this short. Thank you
A ball hitch is just fine but youre right i wouldnt recommend a drop hitch
That's the explanation I needed. I always hear not to use them but no explanation to why and what you should use. Good job.
Wait im cornfused another Matts off rd recovery 😂😂😂😂 well i subbed to ya buddy because you are in my area and the other ones way out west im in north Ga i watch his channel every video and hv for around 3 yrs now but ive never came across your channel but ill start watching tho lol
I like the welded tri-ball setup that Matt with Winder towing uses for the light duty jobs that don’t require a lot of force. I have the factor 55 as shown.
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I don't have the attachment with the loop for the receiver. I usually stick the strap inside the receiver tube and put the pin in through the strap loop. Double shear points on the pin makes it pretty strong.
that is bad bad information. You can bend /break the pin. If it doesn't break it can easily bend then it's stuck in there. The reason to insert a hitch link in a hitch receiver is because the shear strength of the pin. You can easily bend the pin in the center, but you can not easily shear it on the points of contact with the hitch link. A better method would be to throw the stupid 5/8" pin away and just loop the strap around the whole hitch if you ain't buried it. As long as there is nothing to cut the strap. I've seen a few bent pins. If it has worked for you so far it's only because you have not done any serious loading on it. Which is good.
@@ifyoutip I don't do serious loading. I don't snatch hard or anything like that. Just basic slow soft pulls. I don't really get into anything extreme enough to need to snatch or pull super hard.
Thank you very much for this information !!!
Great info lotsa of us never knew ! Thank you !
Subbed because any Matt in recovery is usually a beast
Good advice, thank you
This needs to be a message when anyone buys a hitch. It’s quite dangerous and a lot of people don’t have a clue…
Thanks for the information. I have seen that exact thing happen while other people are pulling someone out.
If you don't have a proper recovery hitch, pull the hitch out of the receiver and run your strap in the receiver with the hitch pin holding it. It isnt the best but it's a hell of a lot safer than using a ball hitch.
Great explanation.....what's even greater is your black bracelet...God is good brother😊
Pintle ring in 2in receiver tube using a 5/8 grade 5 bolt. Solid recovery point. 👍
I grimace every time I see people using bad ideas to recover stuff. Yes, a grade 8 is stronger, but when it fails, it snaps or shatters. Grade 5 normally bends before rapidly breaking. I've snapped off many grade 8 bolts
Get a grade 12 bolt
grade 8 is stronger in every way then a grade 5 including elastic. no point in having farmer grade bolts
Thanks Matt good info.
The longer the distance of the ball drop being directly advantage gained seems to be a constant in all aspects of life😂😂
I feel enlightened. Thanks
I friggin LOVE the physics lesson at the end! Bravisimo
Excellent advice.
good point. I never had to pull out of bad situations like that but have pulled flat with a ball 100s of times. now i know if it gets real dont ues a drop ball. TY
Don't worry about a recovery hitch, just use the tow pin. Make sure you use a good quality pin for all your hitch set ups too.
Was going to ask if this is ok.
@geniferteal4178 never seen one break, unlike flying tow balls. If anyone has seen them break I'm happy to stand corrected.
Thanks for this informative video. Hopefully it will help someone.
I've been in sticky spots and removed the hitch using just the hitch pin with rope rewrapped around it. If the hit pin bends or breaks ratchet extensions slide right in and work. When I first got into off road and was known as the guy to get you out, I had a 1972 f250 with a welding shop bumper on it. That bumper cleanly snapped several 2.5" receivers off one tons that where stuck. I've never had a hitch go into low earth orbit. Kinda hard when they're in the bed
I've used a triple ball hitch for general pulling but then again I have an actual 20k break strength recovery strap safes a lot of pulling 40 bucks well spent 😊
Until the hich breaks
It's not that ball hitches are a problem, it's that drop hitches with people that don't understand levers are a problem.
Your first failure example wasn't a hitch breaking, it was the front tow point.
However there is a few drop hitch failures to use as examples.
Yes a soft shackle hitch is good but a non drop ball hitch is still much stronger than the strap you could attach and also stronger than the bolts holding the tow bar assembly into the thin pressed steel chassis.
But good on you for helping Factor55 sell their accessories. Even more good on you for trying to educate people about leverage.
I absolutely love your maaothod of teaching. Extremely technical how it should be.
"Yeet force" is absolutely in the books.
I did not know this, thank you for helping me not look dumb on the trails
Subbed! Great information!!!
I used to drive a tow truck for and this was always something I’d see people try to do. They would also try and put the chain hook inside of the chain links before they started to pull. They didn’t understand how the hook actually has a slot for the chain.
Excellent video.
Specifically drop hitches. The solid tri-ball hitches work well to trow a loop around in a pinch and are not dangerous.
Solid tips and video my dude
Great advice 👍
I love that you put the equation up and even used a white board to point things out. l-o-l
What we see in this video - the cable & attachment breaking off the towed vehicle and flying off through the rear & f glass of the tow vehicle - is true, although it may seem impossible.
Physics can prove this, just as well as the video itself does. Don't scrimp on your tow equipment!
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A well publicized fatality happened just last year
Thanks for the info, pal, I'll Never pull from a ball hitch again
In addition to this. If you don't have a recovery shackle mount but do have a receiver hitch. Remove the ball mount and slip a soft shackle or the loop of a recovery rope or strap into the receiver using the hitch pin as the connection through the loop.
I mean for towing purposes I’ve used the ball, but what I do is I loop it around the hitch in some way then I have it wrap back around the ball, so it takes up any slack and then the tow strap cinches itself around the ball.
Thanks! That's a big leverage increase. 😎🇺🇸
He drives a Chrysler but he’s right. A phenomenon that doesn’t happen often.
When we do sugar beet harvest and the trucks - both straight trucks and semi trucks - would get stick in the mud we used to use log chains or thick tow ropes on the pull tractor to pull them out.
For the last few years we have used Safe-T-Pull and that is so much nicer than the old log chain and tow rope
If you have ever seen the results from that first fail clip, you understand what he’s talking about. Some things you can’t unsee.
Great short!
Man, there was a 19yr old guy in the area who was killed a couple years back trying to pull a stranger out of the ditch. He was a good kid and was always ready to help anyone. Sucks, he had a newborn at home too. 😢😢😢 It really torn the community up.
We always use chains with a catch link for this reason. D HOOK also work great in the middle for tension releases! But idk nada i just live in the backwoods😅
Life saving advice right there
I always use the 55 metric ton (120 000 pound ish) rated towing line I have for my tractor and shackles to secure both ends firmly. If something would go wrong it would most likely drop right to the ground.
another way, remove ball hitch... insert the loop of the rope into the hitch.... insert pin into hitch. now if the pin breaks there is nothing to be launched but rope. also (in a hard pull) you can throw a welding blanket over the rope. if it pin snaps the rope will drop to the ground with the weight of the blanket. both have work for me
THANK YOU FOR LEARNING ME THIS
Glad I found this video,had no idea,this video might have saved my life or serious injury.Thanks
Thanks for the info
Now that is useful content.
Good advice, apart from the ball drop/ leverage bit. The reason you don't use the ball is because the shank can't handle the bending/ leverage.
If you're not going to buy a recovery hitch, put the strap in the receiver and put the hitch pin through it.
Thank You for this information. I needed to know this…I just didn’t know that i did. 😉