Date:         Thu, 26 May 2011 06:13:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Place to mount shackles?
Comments: To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
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Thanks for sharing your experience, Miguel. I'll now go back to my
original plan of just using the front and rear loops should I get stuck
again.

But if life teaches me anything it's that once I have am prepared with
items like a Hi-Lift jack, the Hi-Lift Offroad Recovery Kit, some chain,
maybe an expensive Pull-Pal,* and some practice using those things, it's
that I will never get stuck again.

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* Because two out of the three places I got stuck last year did not have
trees or boulders nearby. Not even close.

-- RJS
(MY controversial sig line stays on a shelf in the shed beside Kenny's
little creatures on display.)

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 23:43 -0600, miguel pacheco wrote:

> Back to reality.....Mr Squirrel has made it pretty clear just how aggressive
> he intends to get. Clearly that 'sheet metal' is adequate for his needs. I
> can safely guess that most of the people on this list will find that front
> loop more than adequate. I don't know just where I might fall into a 'study
> group,' if one ever was created, but I can safely state, judging by this
> conversation, that I've tested this little loop more than enough to have a
> damned good opinion of what it can do. I've used it and never wondered what
> it's limitations were. I've just put it to work and it has never failed. Not
> like a damned fool, tearing away, shocking the works and so on. That's how
> you break anything. In any case, I've pulled many embarrassed 3/4 ton pick
> em up trucks out of the snow banks, with my little old Syncro, over the last
> 25 yrs in Colorado....with that little loop in the front. So here is my
> science. Go and try to break it........I have.
> Miguel
>
> Controversial, revolutionary signature line removed as requested........