Front tow hook weight limit?

[JesseS]

Thanks. Not planning on anything crazy and would plan to use a Y

If you do you need to be sure to have the two legs of the 'Y' as long as possible, or you will be applying a lot of right angel force (inward) to the tow hooks, when they were designed for straight line force.

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[Trigganometry]

As far as bolt tinsel strength. The weak link I’m thinking is the rivet nuts in the frame. If you yank on your hooks hard check the torque later on. Threads might stretch

 

[12Bravo20]

I have recovered broke down and stuck vehicles from HMMV's to M1 tanks. A hard snatch is not recommend for pulling anything out. deep sticky mud is the worse for pulling stuck vehicles out.

I had to help pull a M728 Combat Engineer vehicle out once that was buried up to the top of the tracks in mud AND one final drive was seized up. The vehicle was buried too deep for us to break the track on the one side. The M729 is nothing but a M60 tank with a 165mm main gun, A Frame hoist and dozer blade on the front. It actually took two M88A1 tracked recovery vehicles to pull the M728 out since the one final drive was seized up and we could not break the track. We definitely did not snatch it out though.

A soft snatch with a kinetic rope is one thing but taking a long run while using a steal chain is unsafe.

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