@@44whip I bought my recovery kit all inclusive a few months ago on sale at supercheap for $250 down from $400 it has everything in it.. including the snatch block he shows(the big one lol) plus tree protecotrs, snatch rope, towing rope, shackles, etc...
What people never talk about with winches is you never get the full capacity unless you’re on the last wrap of rope on your drum. So if you have a 50’ winch and you wanna make it as strong as you can (1:1) you should have most of the rope out and not still wrapped around the drum.
WRONG! A SNATCH BLOCK OR A RECOVERY RING DOES NOT CREATE A MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE AT ALL, IT SIMPLY REDIRECTS THE ROPE! It drives me nuts! For a mechanical advantage to reduce the amount of energy of each pull, a BLOCK AND TACKLE setup is required where one pulley is static and a second pulley is moving. Only when a block and tackle setup is used is the energy to pull the rope 1/2 HOWEVER then the amount of rope to pull is doubled. Think about it, if a simple redirect of the rope could reduce the required energy by half, a person could redirect the rope 10 times around 10 trees and the amount of the pull would be reduced by 10 times? NO. In a block and tackle, energy of the pull is in half over DOUBLE the timeframe. Then double the length of rope is pulled. With a block and tackle, the same amount of energy was required to pull but it was just spread out over a longer time.
OMG, going from single cable to using a single pulley does NOT increase the power of your winch at all, simple physics (look it up). You need a 2 pulley system to double the pull force. One pulley has 1 advantage, it allows you to apply equal force to 2 recovery points to keep the vehicle more stable (if setup correctly) but total power remains the same.
No, you've got it wrong. Let's say his rig weighs 6 tonnes. He loops his winch cable through one pulley and back onto the rig. When he starts winding , the force on the pulley and the thick rope that attaches to an anchor point is 6 tonnes. From the pulley to the rig, the force is spread evenly between two lengths of cable. 3 tonne on the strand going to the winch, 3 tonne on the strand attached to his rig.. This doubles the maximum load that the winch can move.