POINTY BITS
Protect your rig, and
yourself, with properly
rated and executed
recovery equipment.been designed to secure
a vehicle when it’s being
shipped/transported from
Thailand/Japan or wherever
it has been manufactured
through to Australia,” he said.
“So they haven’t had any sort
of rating for, say, any sort of
additional load which may be
placed on them – like if they
were to be placed under some
sort of snatch recovery or a
winch load.
“So the difference between
that and a rated recovery
point is the rated recovery
point has been designed,
tested and developed so it can
sustain any sort of additional
load if it was having any sort
of snatch recovery or winch
load placed onto it.”
The lack of knowledge
around safe recovery
procedures and the confusion
from owners regardingwhether they can use tie-
down/transport hooks and/
or the towball is, according to
Adam Craze, still a legitimate
concern – a result, in part, due
to the continuing boom in new
4x4 sales.
“I would say that most (4x4
owners) do not understand
that tie-down points are not
to be used for any style of
recoveries,” Adam told us. “It is
just like towballs; they shouldnot be used. As the market
expands, so does the need for
awareness of this potential
problem. The 4WD vehicle
market is expanding with a lot
of first-time 4x4 owners who
want to use their vehicles off-
road and they all need to know
how to uses their vehicle and
recovery equipment safely.”
Adam added that he (along
with 4X4 Australia) highly
recommends joining a 4x4 clubhttp://www.4X4australia.com.au 1531