How to Use Recovery Straps

When we talk about how to use a recovery strap? we may remind you of some bad experience that your vehicle gets stuck or broken down in some places or you are a professional towing company and talking about your business-related products.

How To Use Recovery Straps

What is a recovery strap?

Recovery strap is a valuable product that helps you get out some embarrassing circumstances when your car gets stuck and can’t move. Normally, this strap is made of nylon material and it can stretch when needed. Sometimes, we also call recovery straps “snatch straps” and they have loops at both ends.

Our best recovery strap is inexpensive and this tooling doesn’t need any installation with lightweight features and you can easily handle it.

How to attach a recovery strap and pull the car out of a ditch?

Take out your vehicle recovery strap from the storage box or bag and put it on the ground and see if there are any damages on it, if no, make sure it is straight before using it.

Each end has one loop and attaches them at the back of the moving car which helps you to pull the stuck car out of the ditch and attach another end of the strap to the front of the disabled car which needs to pull out.

Make sure there have drivers in the car and there has enough space for moving. Effective communication between the two drivers is also very important, during the processing, from the start to the possible pause in the intermediate process to the final stop, to make sure the safety of towing. The rear car driver may do a lot of stop action to ensure the nylon recovery strap in a tensioned status. Please make sure that you both do it slowly, not in a rush, unless you’re at the edge of the cliff.

When should a recovery strap be replaced?

When you found your recovery strap fades, cuts, fraying, overstretch, mildew, burns, and any other damages on the webbing.

You will never know when will your vehicle gets into trouble, So, it is very important to prepare the recovery strap in your car in case of your car gets stuck or can’t move or you can help other people pulling the vehicle out of the predicament.