Last saturday I decided to buy an ARB snatch strap, and yesterday I got to try it out at work. a 48ft flatbed truck got its self stuck in the mud on a steep slope. steep enough that the bed was touching the ground behind him so he couldnt back up.

hooked up the strap to the trucks explained to the mexican driver as best as i could what was about to happen, jumped in my truck and floored it up hill, his truck wasnt facing the direction i was having to drive, so the first yank on the strap moved the front of his truck about 5ft sideways the second pulled him out of the hole he had dug himself. the third time just got me momentum to pull him all the way to the top of the hill.

I know this is fairly useless post without pictures, but I do have an excuse. the property I was on opperates a strict no photo or video policy. I just felt I had to share :)

haha thats pretty sweet. I only pulled a hyundai out of the ditch this winter, being that I went the whole season with no front driveshaft.

Where I live in the winter its all tourists from the valley just wanting to ski and snowboard. They can't drive in the snow so if you have a truck and a tow strap you can make some good money. We run out on the highway in the mornings and just pull the fools out for $10 or $20 a piece and they are glad to pay it and not have to call a tow truck.

out of staters are the worst !!

It never ceases to amaze me...they have never driven in snow before and come flying up the highway at 75-80 with fresh powder and ice on the road and are surprised when the lose it into the ditch or median. That's why I have no remorse with charging to pull them out. Common sense is not that common these days.

very true ! 95 percent of the time up here in Maine they will have awd cars and act like there bullet proof it gets real annoying and dangerous. Mud season is just as bad :mad:

It never ceases to amaze me...they have never driven in snow before and come flying up the highway at 75-80 with fresh powder and ice on the road and are surprised when the lose it into the ditch or median. That's why I have no remorse with charging to pull them out. Common sense is not that common these days.

oh no, the best ones are the ones that come flying up to show their kids the snow! they are wearing flip flops, shorts, a t-shirt and have no warm clothes. Then they get stuck on the side of the road cause they thought their all wheel drive, traction controlled car was made to do 65 mph on ice :rolleyes:. Im gunna miss DPS callin me out to make some money pullin these idiots out with my truck though i may be able to hook you up this upcomin winter carter if you want. the best is makin the guys in their flip flops get out and start diggin the car out some. they are full as hell to watch

Just be carefull what you connect the snatch strap to. My Father had a towing business and one of his new hires hooked onto the front axle of a solid axle Ford truck with a large snatch strap. He backed up and gave his GMC tow truck full throttle. When he came to the end of the strap the front axle of that old Ford was all that moved. Cost my Father a pretty penny to fix the truck.

I made $40 buck pullin a guy downhill. He slid off the road and was in a ditch. I drove up to him hooked up and started to back up, the strap got tite and went limp. I thought the strap fell off the tow hook, and he was waving me to keep going.Wehen he was out I unhooked and was rolling up the strap, he said here. I told him no, but he insisted and said a tow truck would be more thanked me and gave me $40

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F750 stuck on side of 24% grade hill approaching my shop....1,000 gallon veg oil tank at 90% full...fuel pump crapped out on him just as he was about to pull up into the shop next to mine....out comes the chain and around 130' later hes now on the flats area and saved about $1500 for not having the wrecker guy do the same thing AND then having to be hooked up for the tow

Haven't used the truck to unstick anybody but I did have a 1946 Willys Jeep when we had our home on St. Geo. Island. People got stuck in the sand there all the time. Everyone down on the island carried a cooler with a case of beer. I'd ask for 6 pack when they'd ask how much for the pull out.

Just be carefull what you connect the snatch strap to. My Father had a towing business and one of his new hires hooked onto the front axle of a solid axle Ford truck with a large snatch strap. He backed up and gave his GMC tow truck full throttle. When he came to the end of the strap the front axle of that old Ford was all that moved. Cost my Father a pretty penny to fix the truck.


Like a friend of mine says....."Hook to what you want out first." :D

Just be carefull what you connect the snatch strap to. My Father had a towing business and one of his new hires hooked onto the front axle of a solid axle Ford truck with a large snatch strap. He backed up and gave his GMC tow truck full throttle. When he came to the end of the strap the front axle of that old Ford was all that moved. Cost my Father a pretty penny to fix the truck.
HAHA!! My friend hooked up a tow strap to a guys Jeep Liberty to the front axle. Then he hooked it up to a lady's truck that we know (2001 F350). The guy wouldn't stop spinning the tires even when we chewed him out so she floored it, yanked the Jeep out and when we were unhooking the tow strap from the axle, the guy kept asking if we damaged anything. My buddy said nope, and we were laughing cuz his axle was bent. :D The guy was a douche...

Oh I know all too well to check what its hooked to, I crawled under his truck to check where it was hooked to, and he had looped it round a tie rod also.

not a pull story but close. my supervisor wanted me to push his truck to a parking lot on base cause he ran out of gas. my bumper will handle it but his ford escape rear bumper got a couple notches in it. if my truck were any higher it wouldve been his hatch instead

I have done this plenty of times on the beach and for friends of friends that call I always make the person hook the chain on and tell them I am not responseable for any damages but I done use a strap I always use my winch. So there usually isn't a shock load and it's easier to see if something is about to break

Last fall a buddy of mine got his 03 cummins stuck really bad. His neighbors were out cutting fire wood in their ford ranger and they got stuck so they asked my buddy to pull them out. Hes the typical cummins guy. 03 crew cab cummins, stacks, leveling kit with 35 inch mickey thompson MT tires, and an edge juice so naturally its the baddest truck on or off the road. He was full of piss and vinegar telling me to leave my low rider IFS truck at the house. Well, he ended up getting the people out but while we were unhooking the strap he wanted to tease his neighbors a bit about how using their little ranger was a bad idea and they shouldve bought a cummins to do the job. By the time he got done running his mouth, his truck had already started to sink into their swampy yard. He left 2 ruts about 25 feet long and knee deep right in the middle of their back yard. After getting a running start and failing numerous times, we hooked a small tractor up to him and still couldnt free him. So there he sat, mud up over the axles just about to the bottom of his doors. I didnt offer to try, so the truck sat there all weekend until the following monday when his dad got a boom/crain truck from his work to free him up.

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Ass Hats are too funny

Last fall a buddy of mine got his 03 cummins stuck really bad. His neighbors were out cutting fire wood in their ford ranger and they got stuck so they asked my buddy to pull them out. Hes the typical cummins guy. 03 crew cab cummins, stacks, leveling kit with 35 inch mickey thompson MT tires, and an edge juice so naturally its the baddest truck on or off the road. He was full of piss and vinegar telling me to leave my low rider IFS truck at the house. Well, he ended up getting the people out but while we were unhooking the strap he wanted to tease his neighbors a bit about how using their little ranger was a bad idea and they shouldve bought a cummins to do the job. By the time he got done running his mouth, his truck had already started to sink into their swampy yard. He left 2 ruts about 25 feet long and knee deep right in the middle of their back yard. After getting a running start and failing numerous times, we hooked a small tractor up to him and still couldnt free him. So there he sat, mud up over the axles just about to the bottom of his doors. I didnt offer to try, so the truck sat there all weekend until the following monday when his dad got a boom/crain truck from his work to free him up.
HAHA!

The funniest one I have is when I was leaving a football game at Ole Miss. Some guy had a 2wd suburban and had backed onto some pine straw. When he drove forward, he ended up spinning his tires down to the slightly wet, slick dirt. I used my strap and pulled him backwards until he could get onto the concrete walkway and drove out. When I was putting up my strap, one of his kids ran up to me and handed me $40 bucks and ran back to the car and left. That was funny cause I was gonna do it for free.

I need to get a beefier towing strap. I was using a crappy cheapo that broke when I was trying to pull out a fence post 3 feet in the ground.

I'm pretty sure I've used my straps at work more often than when actually 4-wheeling.

We store a bunch of containers outside, and if we had to get to them after a rain, my team members would invariably sink a forklift to the axles. I cut my strap (20,000lb.) pulling out a lift that had just slipped its rear wheels off the edge of he pavement - had work replace it with a 50k strap. :) I even pulled our QC Mgr's Corolla out of a hole meant for a tree in the parking lot while our building was still under construction.

I've been stuck twice. Once in Pismo, which was just a matter of slowing down to avoid some kids, which allowed me to sink. No big deal, except that a damn FJ-Cruiser was what ended up helping me. :( I did get stuck good once - bottomed out, kinda, front & rear bumpers, at the boom of a ravine, keeping my wheels off the ground. I went to chase down a H2 (rented by German tourists), but they were stuck, too. We both got pulled out by a badass K5. I slipped him $5 or $10, I think.

Getting stuck is half the fun, but it is nicer to be on the pulling side.

-bZj

its fun to pull people out until you start breaking shit! alot of people around town know to call me if they get stuck and usually most of the idiots are my friends getting stuck. pulling out a friends powerjoke in snow, strap broke, broke one of my spotlight lenses and put a few dents in the hood. pulling out a ford bronco ended up snapping a tie rod and the cv shaft. still fun making fun of em after pulling em out tho

Not offroad, but I carry my towstrap in the truck when I race, just in case. Ive pulled three cars back to the pits that otherwise would have been sitting at the end of the turn off lane the rest of the day. I got very funny looks from these guys when I pulled up after running the 1/4, took my helmet off and ask them if they need a tow....

thats awesome lol

When I was in high school a buddy and I went to town to screw around and on the way back at two in the morning we saw a car in the ditch with a few dudes standing outside the car. We stopped and it was a car load of drunken guys that drove off in a wet ditch.

So we got the strap out and told them to hook it up... First was to the plastic bumper on this dodge intrepid; ripped that off, second time was to a bumper shock; ripped that off, third time was to the exhaust ripped that out from under the car so finally we go back there and hooked to a frame hole and got them out of there...

It was hilarious because we just stayed in the truck while these five guys are hooking to the weakest part of there car... IT WAS AWSOME!

It wasn’t with a dmax but it was a nice truck we used. It was a 95 Chevy 4x4 step side with a rebuilt motor... she was quick.

When I was in high school a buddy and I went to town to screw around and on the way back at two in the morning we saw a car in the ditch with a few dudes standing outside the car. We stopped and it was a car load of drunken guys that drove off in a wet ditch.

So we got the strap out and told them to hook it up... First was to the plastic bumper on this dodge intrepid; ripped that off, second time was to a bumper shock; ripped that off, third time was to the exhaust ripped that out from under the car so finally we go back there and hooked to a frame hole and got them out of there...

It was hilarious because we just stayed in the truck while these five guys are hooking to the weakest part of there car... IT WAS AWSOME!

It wasn’t with a dmax but it was a nice truck we used. It was a 95 Chevy 4x4 step side with a rebuilt motor... she was quick.
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One of the better stories for me;

At work one day my platoon SGT (im in the army) comes in and asks if I want to take my truck off road to check on our training site for the next week, so Im bored and say ok, lets go. Well we go out scout everything, last thing we have to do is check on a place to park our trucks. Well we see a big field so I ride the woodline to check it out. All of a sudden my truck stops, put it in 4x4 and still nothing. Get out to look, I found an underground spring with an 8k truck. This is awsome, call one of my buddies with an 02 GMC 2500 gasser. He get there, tries for 30 min to get me out, moves me 1 inch. Meanwhile my truck has continued to sink. So we catch a ride back to our motorpool to get some heavy artillery. When it was said and done it took a military 5 Ton FMTV chained to mine to get me out, and it took 3 pulls. That was an awsome day, try explaining to wife that it took a truck that big to pull you out of a hole, and that you WERENT trying to go mudding.

Great stories... My best hook was on the road. This Feb. we had a snow storm, not sure how much but the post office actually closed. I came across a lady in a Jeep Liberty trying to get a newer Mustang Convertible (top up) with summer tires out of the middle of the lane. There was only an inch of snow or so as the plow had already been through, but you could tell the lady in the Jeep was relieved when I pulled up. I handed the D-bag in the Mustang the hook end of the chain and told him to find a place to hook it that he thought could handle it... It took all of my will power to not rip him a new hole in the front of his car. He had no business being on the road. The good thing is we all got a good laugh and no one got hurt.

I have a couple of good ones. A couple of winters ago we were out ice fishing and the local game warden shows up. He checks our licences visits for a bit and asks me if the spot I came on the ice was very bad. I said no but I was running 35" studded Hankooks on my dmax and had to use 4x4 to pull the drift at shore. He goes over to where I came on and tries to get off the ice. Well he procedes to bury his f-150 to doors in the snow bank. I left him there for about 15 mins with his shovel before I came to his rescue. He was thankful to say the least as most tow trucks won't come on the ice and even if it would have it would have blown his fuel budget for the month.

Then a couple months later I was coming home from branding calves. Just cruising down the highway when I crest a hill and see a car in the bottom of the median. I am looking at this car as I am getting and closer and see its a cop car. I figure this is too good to pass up and stop behind the cop car in the ditch. There is an older officer around 50 and a young guy about 20. I ask the older guy if he needs a tug as the rookie is on the phone with a tow truck already. The old guys says that would be great if I would pull em out. So I get my strap out hook to the dmax and start down the ditch to hook up to the crown vic. The old guy then yells at the rookie hey you got this f-er stuck you get down and hook it up. Well the car is in about 3" of water and I had no problem with hooking up cause I was almost hom and all dirty and covered in cow sheet from branding but the old guy insisted that the rookie hook it up so he learned something. I just drug the car out nice and gental and when done the old guy comes up as I am wrapping up the strap and says that he owes me one get out of jail free card.
I got a pretty hard time from my buddies for pulling out the cop but I said hey if it saves me one $200 speeding ticket it was well worth it.

All good stories, pulling the Leo out was hopefully an investment? :D.

Have yet to assist anyone out with either of my Sierras. I have an 85 Hilux that has pulled out a dozen or so full size and mini trucks. It has a decent set up with a dual receiver on the front & rear that a Warn 8274 custom winch mount will slide into. Most memorable was pulling out a young gun from a ditch on the side of the hwy near a friends house. It had been raining for several days and all the rookies had been out playing in the mud. This young buck was doing circle 8 in the middle of a 4 lane hwy (a bit annoying on a Sunday morning) trying to impress his friends with his skills I guess and granted not to busy so yeah he lost it & slid down into a wide ditch. After 1/2 an hr. of burying his truck in deeper I caved in to friends asking to pull him out? No problem just hooked a strap to the rear hitch and with a few tugs got him out. Wouldn't you know it, right after he took off the strap he floored it showing no big deal & lost it into the opposite side ditch! WOW I sat there for a second in disbelief as his friends looked over as I drove off & never looked back.
The 1 & only time I was stuck in my Sierra was Elk hunting and it rained for 4 days. Had a 13K 5'vr hooked up and thought there was no way I was going to come close to making the 40 miles of back roads to the hwy. I had made it almost through all the bad areas with some momentum and luck, but a silt mud covered draw slid the 5'vr down. My LT Michelins were no match so I started cutting cedar limbs and shoving them under all 8 tires. Luckily no rain since morning that allowed to dry some a fellow Duramax came along and pulled me out with just a long steady tug. It's been 4 yrs and believe he turned down the cash I offered, unfortunately I couldn't offer him some Elk for the very much appreciated deed! :( I am looking to adapt the Warn winch mount to my Sierra when I finally replace the stock bumpers and possibly avoid that from happening again? :)