I'm using Kinetic rope from miolle that i bought in amazon. This is an invaluable investment if you are into snowmobiling in remote areas with no cellular coverage. My wife and I were able to pull one of our 600 lb snowmobiles (they are absolute monster machines) out of a 3 foot deep snowbank at 8pm in the deep of winter, up in the mountains in pitch darkness! The kinetic rope allowed the recovery to go smoothly. Took less than 3 minutes to hook it up to the snowmobile still on the trail, and under 30 seconds to extract! Only other accessory you need is a pair of those U shaped loop things. Shoveling and trying to pull it out with a Snow bungee is for the birds! This was Effortless! We won’t leave home without it!

Haha, Ninja roll followed by the, I'm not 20 any more grunt :)

Haha the entry to each video is brilliant. Comedic genius. That's what keeps me coming back!

As usual, excellent info. Your trip videos are great but these instructional / info ones are excellent for a 4WD newbie like me

Starting to get into recovery gear and learning splices and stuff, this video was a great help man! Much appreciated :)

Mate, I love your videos they are honest and your not pushing products, just facts from experience 👍

This is the kind of of content I love

Very nice. As always love the content!!

you covered it very well Ronny, I use a bottle jack and have tried and now use a trolley jack, bit heavy and big but works well and safe to use

Another great video Ronny :) I love having all the gear, but it weighs HEAPS and takes up a load of room in the D4...... can't wait to see what you have in store for your "Recovery Kits.... what to have and what to Ditch" video that's coming up!!! :) Cheers, Don (Dons Shed and Xplor Overland)

best entrance yet sir ..

Nice talking with Torben at the expo. You were chatting with the beard wax guy so I didn't interrupt. Glad you made it to our great state. Looking forward to seeing what you all do in Moab.

Did I just hear an Aussie say “A to Zee”? Bloody hell, mate! 😜

Helpful information here. doubling the snatch straps does potentially double the dampening effect...not in percentage terms but we knew what you meant - good tip 👍🏻

Great video Ronny

Awesome video Ronny! 👍🏻👍🏻

Used a kenetic rope over 20 years ago in Africa. Worked very well but bulky. Didn't do the aggressive pull like a snatch strap. Just put it under tension and pulled gently. Wonderful. ... Defender 110

Thanks for the info on those blocks you ratchet strap to each wheel. I saw the ads and thought that they'd be worth a go. Saved me a lot of frustration I reckon. Much appreciated.

I always appreciate your honest and presumably unbiased opinions about the 4wd culture. Look forward to anything you have to offer less uniformed 4wdrivers like me.

Starting to dabble in offroad adventures. Thanks for the video! I found this very informative. I need to get a kinetic strap or two. I have a tow strap, but this makes more sense. Time to go!!

Nice to chat with you and Torbs and Amalia

Love that roll Ronny!

Awesome video and information!!!

Cheers mate 😎🍻

Thanks cobber anchor in boat usage situation works because of chain weight if you hand pull long chain over sand or even packed flat mud it's quite hard to do cheers good simple advice

An old bit of carpet is great help in sand especially if you think you are towing a trailer, simply lay the carpet in front of the trailer and it won't drag in as badly

Great video. Thanks for the good info!!!👍

Winch dampers full of sand are only good for dyneema winching. When a bag of sand is used on a snatch strap that fails, you have a heavy bag that likes to fly. They put big holes in windscreens. Also, when doing quite severe recoveries, put the bonnet on the bogged car up. It makes a very useful sheild and the bonnet will stop most things going through your windshield and tearing your face off.

Precise, logical, straightforward no bs information. Thanks mate!

Nice one Ronny good to know what to use 😎

Great informative video - Thanks !!!

Awesome info!! Was looking for info on those soft shackles!!

Great info. Chains are very usefull on mud. Not for recover but to get more traccion. Saludos!

Matt from Winder Towing: "Nah, that's too much weight! I just need 30 feet of Yankum rope." 😂

Ronnie, I agree with your assessment and experience with anchors because you drive mostly on sand. Here in Scotland where its wet thick clay mud, this anchors work a treat. Although to be fair we have so many trees it's unusual to have nothing to winch off. The hardest part is the opposite to your experience : getting the bloody things out again afterwards. Sometimes difficult and always very messy!

Best intro yet.

Fantastic info!

You do a good job Ronnie

Great video 👍🏻

Thank u Ronny, lot of infos

Daaaaamn! Your Cruiser is heavy!

6:15 best use for that gear - upper cuts. :D Enjoying your informative contents. cheers!!!!

Good video!

F*ck yes Ronny, loved the introduction!

Awesome video Ronny! Super bummed we missed talking with you at Overland Expo West this year. You looked swamped with fans so we will catch up later on. Hope you enjoyed the expo man.

How am I suppose to jump through the video? It's ALL interesting and necessary information...if i jump I'm actually worried I missed something VERY important to know...great job!

9:23 you dont get 40% stretch, you get the same 20%(x2) for example 20' strap stretches 4'. 2 20' connected would stretch 8' which is double but twice as long. the percentage of stretch remains the same

Nice stuff, thanks for your input. However 20% stretch plus additional length at 20% stretch (with another recovery strap) is still 20%. you just get additional length due to the extra length. If however you add a tow strap (3-8% stretch) to a recovery strap (20-30% stretch) you get additional length to put the recovery vehicle in a better position but little additional stretch. The system stretch is at a lower percentage but the same as your Recovery strap.

The thing you call a “sand anchor” is more like a ground anchor, we use them alot in Denmark 😉👍🏼

I have a land anchor, it works great. You could say that the design is similar, but way bigger when it´s deployed, and smaller when you have to put it away. Tryed it in sand and mud, by myself, just one person to do the job, and it works as it´s supposed to work. I used the "Pull Pal" once and it worked ok, but then I´ve built my own but a lot stronger... The only drawback... it´s the heavyest thing on my jeep.

Sorry to have miss you at Expo. I made the decision to go on Tuesday night reasoning that if you could come all the way from Western Australia, I could certainly drive 12 hours to attend. I hope you thoroughly enjoyed the event and that you have a ball with the Patriot crew in Utah.

Hey Ronny love the clips mate .. you did a great job but missed a tried and tested oldy the Mud and the Snow Chains

From the video, quote: "I think the Americans brought out the soft shackel first". ...Well, yes, no, or: it is hard to say where its origin was. The splice and knot combination was not dependent on the Dyneema rope product (the Netherlands 1968) or first polymerisation of UHMWPE material (Germany 1950s). It is quite new to the 4x4 world, but to mariners it is very old knowledge. To quote Sail Magazine: "Strops, grommets and shackles made from rope were found on every sailing ship for hundreds of years". In the sailing world, the group of knot combinations called rope shackles are based on various knots, like the button knot, diamond knot, the Celtic knot, the Norse (viking) Valknut, and various other multi-strand knots of rope as bracelets, loops and ties, in any required length... So, for more than a 1000 years, these techniques have been around as readily available quick-fixes, passed from each generation to the next, and they were made both tiny and large, simple or strong, for different marine uses as required. A central source of information: "The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley was published in 1944 by Doubleday publ., New York. It is a stunning compilation of knots and their uses. Nothing comparable has been published since, and it remains the authoritative source." Knots tying is an art, and I guess fewer modern people, except professional fishermen and sailors, master the art like previous generations did... Anyway, the Ashley Book of Knots is one well organised documentation of an old art, and it's still there to educate us modern people. What remains: for us, so many generations later, it is hard to say if that knot combination is American, Asian, European or African. But a modern invention, the soft shackle (rope shackle) is certainly not. Cheers, mates!

Thanks!

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Good stuff . if you live in snow and ice country, chains are the way to go

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I use Trac Grabbers . I put two on each wheel and they get me through mud . You need to test them . They grab on mud or sand. You have to go slow or they will dig in.

Years ago the only thing we had was a ships hawser, bulky as, but did the job no probs, not sure of the stretch but had plenty, go down to a wharf and watch a ship swinging in and out. Mr Buckaroonie tried a brand of stretchy rope and was able to snap it after a few attempts

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The biggest benefit of a snatch rope over a strap is that they are good for over a hundred recoveries. A strap loses its stretch after 6 or 7 recoveries.

Really great video Ronny! Were you at Overland Expo West this weekend? I was speaking with a rep for Redarc Australia and he said you were filming there.

Great, comprehensive video. Weird question: what boots is Ronny wearing?

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Great entrance 😂

Hi Ronny So helpful information about recovery gears. But you actually used the worst sand anchor I encourage your to try PullPal anchor it well amaze you how helpful it is especially when you be alone.

For a sand-anchor, you might borrow a Mantis marine anchor from a boating mate. With the right scope of line, they bury themselves in sand very well and are relied on by many boaters. I have one on my 23' powered catamaran.

Very good comprehensive video on all kinds of recovery g...………………...Who made the Sami Puukko???????????:):):)

Hi Ronny thank you for the video great overview. I think in terrain where you have harder sand (like in Europe) the sandanker could work better, at those places the deadman would be useless because you need hours to digg that thing in. Best wishes for your US Trip.

you EMPHASIZED that this was all YOUR opinion-- but from what I"ve seen on here... I will go WITH your opinion-- so far all I've seen is based on basic SCIENCE- and safety- and I value your opinion over others I've seen on here.. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK-- you're saving a lot of lives from stupid mistakes.. Very probably MINE too.

Highly recommend the American pro eagle jack with the maxxtrax base plate, would be cool if they could send one out to Ronny to feature

Here’s a video request for you Ronnie is recovery gear maintenance I ain’t been able to find a video online as to the best way to care for clean and maintain your gear whether it’s straps or shackles or snatch blocks

Great content that you have been putting out! I'm just getting into light off roading because I have a ford transit high roof van that I lifted. What are your impressions of the Bush Winch? Would love to see you do a video on that. They have their own sand anchor. Would love to hear your input.

It's "Kinetic" not kenetic, kenitic... and using 2 ropes don't give you 40% stretch but the amount of stretch (in meters) gets longer because one 10 meter rope can stretch to 12 meters, using two of them will give you 4 meters of stretch in total.

those strap on wheels device should be awsome on steep wet grass... one day we had a 2wd truck on a steep remote farm paddock. rain came,,, couldnt get out in time .. the old man grabbed a chain and wrapped it around one back wheel one turn and secured it with a shackle.. it tore hunks of grass.. every time the chain touch grass the truck would inch foward untill momentum built. got out

the best high lift jack base is a nice bit of solid red wood.

Gosh yeah, we used to use floor mats before maxtraxx were invented haha.

anchors are very popular where I live and they work great. I think its unfair to review the anchor and those tire straps in such a soft and dry sand, because they werent made for it

Kept seeing so many boring videos and then I see this guy do a half ass combat roll into his video....and here I sit, watching attentively 😁👍🏻

Love this video, never thought of two bottle jacks but then again, I never had to use one yet. I have to disagree with the sand anchor though, they work great, problem is you bought a crappy one. The main problem is the angle of the main pulling bar on that unit that's all wrong. I have a Pull Pal, the original one, not the fake stuff and it's awesome and I've tested it in sand and snow and this thing digs like crazy. It's like Maxtrax's and the black crappy ones that break, same thing with the sand anchor, you just have to buy the right one.

If the dampers were physically attached to each end they could act as steamers or parachutes and slow down the broken lines but they aren't, the reason you one in the middle is so you create a larger dip in the line so if something breaks on the right side it heads DOWN the dip into the ground and if something breaks on the left side it springs towards the middle dip AKA towards the ground.

Hi ronny... it's wonderful and very educational video for someone like me (newbies)... thank you... I need a favour from you.. can you make a video on the apperal ( shirt shoes glove and any other things on the body) shoes when entering mud, sand and rocks... summer, rainy, Thank you in advance

Generally, if you have any type of pulley, it should match the diameter of the rope/cable. It will provide more support. Custom pre-fabbed recovery points seems to be more of an Australia thing. In the U.S. it seems to be(admittedly, I haven't looked in a while) hard enough to just find tow hooks. Even pre-1990 U.S. 4x4 trucks often did not come with front tow hooks. After that, they seemed to become standard equipment, tho.

My Grandfather drove around Australia in a Series 1 Landrover with a Kerosene fridge in the back - he had an axe, a swag and a gun for company. You lot have gone soft with all the shit you think you need.

I'd like to see you try out some more kings stuff

Gday Ronny, first of all I just want to say I love your work. However may I Suggest that if you are going to do comparisons of the top of the range Matrax that you compare it to the the top of the range TRED PRO and not the standard Treds. Cheers

When moisture is a problem use a ramp. there's no other option except a never ending chain. Personally I carry a pair of rubber Bobcat tracks, I always use granddaddy low and walk out you never run out, you don't want the track to flip and cut your tires.

Ah nice solutions there Ronny, however if you are dealing with GVM upgrades from the stock 2.5 tons/tonnes 7.5 tons would be a minimum standard snatch because you have to allow for twice to 3 times the weight of vehicle youe snatching or even towing. so if you are somewhere within 4.5-7.5 ton in GVM twice the weight 9-15 tons and triple the weight is 13.5-24.5 tom.. you most likely will be needing to ugrade your chassis rails to accommodate the towing and recovery needs i would also consider and a-frame towing linkage ,,,

Kenetic recovery rope anyway of the week. Yes bulkier but no obvious week fail point with a stronger more foolproof construction easier to clean and pack up extra stretch if using the appropriate size makes it easier on vehicles and easier to handle

Use a kinetic rope for mud bogging and it is better than the other strap because it is less jerky and it was stronger

14:30 spit my coffee, thank you!

Thank Ronny for another detailed video here as shown? Have heavy 4x4 Isuzu truck weight is 5200kg what is best recovery gear to use as weight more that stand 4x4?

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Those small maxtrax would be great for zooks

I have seen videos of the Pull Pal (sand anchor) that show it works well in sand. Isn't complicated or difficult. Don't know if they are sold in your part of the world. Videos demonstrated in the fine sand in areas like Utah. Harder to drive in than beach sand so I assume they work in any sand.

What are your thoughts on rear bumper winches vs front? Specifically in the context of Solo Overlanding. With enough gears I know it's possible to winch one self backwards with a front winch. But superficially, it seems a rear winch makes more sense for solo situations; if you get stuck alone, seems vast majority of time you're going to want to turn around, not go further into hazards.

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ronny,ronny,ronny,,,best recovery gear is............................more of what you had..

Ron, For rollover recovery, what type of air bags work best and which do you suggest ? Thanks for this vital information.

I could see those anchors and blocks not working in sand. Where I live we got trees, trees, and more trees, so portable anchor points aren't really a thing.