Ive been thinking I need to get a good one to have in the ram, you know, to pull other people out. ha ha.

A local farm supply store used to carry this 80,000 lbs tow strap that is intended for jerking out a stuck combine from the mud, they want $75 bucks for it though, maybe overkill but Ive broken my fair share of 10,000 pound straps before. I like last year when I got the blazer stuck in my front barn yard in a snow drift.

also.... where do you guys hook up to on a sport with no tow hooks in the front?

 

well ive got a 25000 lb strap from tractor supply company or some place like that and if it were me i would back up to where you need to pull out so that you can use all your forward drive gears instead of your one reverse gear

 

I see only a 55,000 lbs strap from them now, maybe that is still the one to get. I like overkill

http://www.ericksonmfg.com/products/...eryStraps.html

 

Im talking about if I ever have to pull the ram through a drift or something from the front

 

Gentlemen, you should not use a tow strap to get a vehicle unstuck! You use a tow strap to tow and a recovery strap to get a vehicle unstuck.
When using a tow strap to tow, overkill is fine. When using a recovery strap to get a vehicle out of the mud, ditch, snow, etc. overkill is not a good thing. Strive to use a recovery strap rated for no more than double the weight of what is stuck as the key to it's use is that it must stretch and "spring" the vehicle out. A strap that can not stretch and store energy to pull a vehicle out places all the stress on the vehicle pulling, not to mention poses a higher risk of damage to both vehicles...

 

my mistake, I am looking at recovery straps. It does stretch

#59802 is what im looking at here http://www.ericksonmfg.com/products/...eryStraps.html

 

What do you recommend, z71? Right now I have a tow strap rated at 25K.

 

That's fine for a tow strap but for a recovery strap, I'd go with about a 12,000 lb. one .

Also, of possible interest:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/off-roa...road-gear.html

 

i use a Keeper in the ram, recovery 60k# max. it is 6" long and will easily stretch when pulling out someone stuck. the rubicon carries a Keeper 30k# max recovery strap and it too easily stretches. i personally dont see any need for anything over the 60k i have, but double your weight seems light to me. id say minimum for full size vehicles is 30k# rated. overkill is better than underneed.

 

Straight from the "Off-Road Recovery Guide":

"A general rule of thumb, each inch of width will allow you to pull out about 10,000 lbs. So if I have a 3 inch wide strap, it would be rated to tug up to 30,000 lbs. Many will then ask, why not go all the way up to a 6" wide recovery strap? The problem is that the strap becomes less elastic the wider it gets, which means it will not work properly. Typically a 2" wide recovery strap will suit all of your needs."