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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: lambert on June 13, 2010, 21:15:45

Title: rear recovery point?
Post by: lambert on June 13, 2010, 21:15:45

would an m20 eye bolt through the top centre of the draw bar with a 10mm spreader plate on the back be strong enough to use for recovery purposes?

i'm not convinced by jates as they are a tad out of the way when up to the guts in mud, and riding about with a bridle on the back is asking for bother. i do use a jaw for towing but it is on a 1.75  inch drop plate so would not stand heavy snatching. hence the idea of a dirty eye bolt to fit a farmer sized shackle onto.
any thoughts welcome.

Title: Re: rear recovery point?
Post by: Range Rover Blues on June 14, 2010, 13:22:49

Should be, what is the rated load on the eye bolt?

Title: Re: rear recovery point?
Post by: lambert on June 14, 2010, 15:35:28

5600kg breaking force to din580 spec apparently.

Title: Re: rear recovery point?
Post by: nismo2004 on June 16, 2010, 13:15:04

runing the same set up on mine and it works a treat

Title: Re: rear recovery point?
Post by: Range Rover Blues on June 19, 2010, 22:03:43

That's it's rated load, it's fail load will be higher and I doubt many of your strops will be stronger so I'd day it's more than enough.