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Aug 15, 2023 7:43 PM
Husky 20' 7000-Lb Vehicle Recovery Strap (Red or Yellow)
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Some of the ones on Amazon are "kinetic recovery straps". They stretch which makes a massive difference in recovery ability. If a truck is trying to pull out a similar sized vehicle truly buried to the axles, it will liikely be impossible with a conventional strap. The strap will either brake, or the tow rig will spin its wheels. With a kinetic strap, the strap stretches storing up lots of potential energy from the tow rigs hit pulling it with a running start. This momentarily applies tremendous force to the towed vehicle to get it rolling. In this way, a far smaller vehicle can pop a far larger vehicle out of a rut.
So, if you are towing you may want a tow strap that doesn't stretch like this cheap one posted, but I'd always recommend a large safety factor. I would not personally choose to approach the manufacturer's maximum rating. If I were needing to pull a 7000lbs. vehicle for some reason, I'd personally look at 3" or 4" straps over 2" ones. I used to live near a beach you could drive on, and I've seen a lot of these cheap 2" straps break. They don't handle dynamic loads well.
If you have a strap in a vehicle on the off chance it gets stuck, you probably want a recovery strap. These are high value for the money:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...=UTF8
https://www.amazon.com/ALL-TOP-Ki...03685&th=1
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Doesn't look like Home Depot or Husky Tool...that should be a huge HINTZ to what you might be getting.
Good straps, handy to keep 2 in my pickup.
I guess $13 is now the 'deal' price.
For reference, a similar strap (but only 6k rated) is $16.99 at Harbor Freight... and I trust HD Husky as a better brand.
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What is the difference between these and the straps on Amazon for around the same price? Some of those claim up to 20,000 pounds break strength. This one says for vehicles up to 7000 lb.
Probably working load limit and break strength. 7k WLL is probably enough for most normal people with cars as long as you aren't trying to use them as kinetic ropes/straps. I like to try to be at least double the weight of my pickup so 16k min WLL is what I aim for in straps. Unfortunately doing double gets to be over expensive for as little as mine get used for me. I probably only have 10k WLL straps.
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Good straps, handy to keep 2 in my pickup.
I guess $13 is now the 'deal' price.
For reference, a similar strap (but only 6k rated) is $16.99 at Harbor Freight... and I trust HD Husky as a better brand.
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Tho in one place they say "7,000 lb "working load", in the specs on the page they list it as 7,000 lb "load capacity" which is often the max (ie. breaking strength limit) and it is only a 2" wide strap.
Then they use yet another variation, listing it as 7,000 lb "Max Vehicle Weight" is a joke, as vehicle weight is immaterial if you're just pulling it 'free wheeling' on flat hard pavement versus trying to pull out even a light vehicle buried in mud and in a ditch.
I still question the 'actual' specs/WLL, as this could be listed far more uniform and clear.
Anyhow... on my own rant, I had 30' x 4" wide straps rated at 20,000 breaking/ 9,000 WLL and about 3 months back I saw Northern Tool had some 30' x 4" wide, 20,000 max weight, on sale for a 'good price', but I when I received them was really ticked off to see they were only 6,600 WLL and not like the 9,000 WLL on my other near identical straps.
Northern Tool had only listed the 20k lb rating and never once showed or listed the 6,600 WLL on their page, so I assumed and expected they would also be 9,000 lb WLL like my others. No shocker that they also did look noticeably 'cheaper' than the ones I already had.
Just a heads up for anyone that see them on sale there.
Tho in one place they say "7,000 lb "working load", in the specs on the page they list it as 7,000 lb "load capacity" which is often the max (ie. breaking strength limit) and it is only a 2" wide strap.
Then they use yet another variation, listing it as 7,000 lb "Max Vehicle Weight" is a joke, as vehicle weight is immaterial if you're just pulling it 'free wheeling' on flat hard pavement versus trying to pull out even a light vehicle buried in mud and in a ditch.
I still question the 'actual' specs/WLL, as this could be listed far more uniform and clear.
Anyhow... on my own rant, I had 30' x 4" wide straps rated at 20,000 breaking/ 9,000 WLL and about 3 months back I saw Northern Tool had some 30' x 4" wide, 20,000 max weight, on sale for a 'good price', but I when I received them was really ticked off to see they were only 6,600 WLL and not like the 9,000 WLL on my other near identical straps.
Northern Tool had only listed the 20k lb rating and never once showed or listed the 6,600 WLL on their page, so I assumed and expected they would also be 9,000 lb WLL like my others. No shocker that they also did look noticeably 'cheaper' than the ones I already had.
Just a heads up for anyone that see them on sale there.
Working load is the breaking load divided by a safety factor. If that 20k number was the breaking load of the NT strap, they used a larger safety factor than the other one you are comparing it to. Perhaps they were designed for different applications and use different safety factors or the 9k claim was a bit exaggerated as working load being a third of breaking load is pretty standard.
Working load is the breaking load divided by a safety factor. If that 20k number was the breaking load of the NT strap, they used a larger safety factor than the other one you are comparing it to. Perhaps they were designed for different applications and use different safety factors or the 9k claim was a bit exaggerated as working load being a third of breaking load is pretty standard.
I used to run a machine for years that exerted up to a million lbs in the compressive, flexural, and tensile testing of a wide variety of construction and structural materials.
But you're saying there is no standard for labelling the working load limit and a manufacturer can just use any variation of safety factor, whether it's a +40% safety factor or +60% safety factor they choose for the product labelling.
I'm not so sure about there being no standard for WLL labelling, to where it's allowed for that variation.
I used to run a machine for years that exerted up to a million lbs in the compressive, flexural, and tensile testing of a wide variety of construction and structural materials.
But you're saying there is no standard for labelling the working load limit and a manufacturer can just use any variation of safety factor, whether it's a +40% safety factor or +60% safety factor they choose for the product labelling.
I'm not so sure about there being no standard for WLL labelling, to where it's allowed for that variation.
After reading the Q&A, these cheap Chinese Husky straps appear to have a breaking strength of 15k lbs and a working load of 7k lbs. However, for towing (not recovery), the rule of thumb is typically 1.5x vehicle weight, so the 7k working load and 7k vehicle weight is puzzling.
In the end, I'd view all these claims with a huge dose of skepticism and wouldn't personally choose this cheap strap to pull a 7k lbs vehicle out of the mud.
After reading the Q&A, these cheap Chinese Husky straps appear to have a breaking strength of 15k lbs and a working load of 7k lbs. However, for towing (not recovery), the rule of thumb is typically 1.5x vehicle weight, so the 7k working load and 7k vehicle weight is puzzling.
In the end, I'd view all these claims with a huge dose of skepticism and wouldn't personally choose this cheap strap to pull a 7k lbs vehicle out of the mud.
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