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Do you need a Red Winches RR30 “Bearing Ring”?

19 March 2022 Robert Pepper

We’ve had snatch blocks, then came snatch rings, and now there is the Bearing Ring. The idea is simple; take the snatch ring and add a bearing to make a snatch ring with two parts, a static outer shell and a sheave that rotates on a bearing. Here it is in comparison to a Red […]

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The best 3 things you need for sand recovery

23 February 2022 Robert Pepper

I’ve done a lot of sand recovery of all sorts of vehicles on beaches, inland deserts and even in different countries. There are just three bits of kit I need for any sand recovery situation, at least so far in my experience. Tyre pressure gauge Tyre pressures are the key to sand driving. You simply […]

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Checking out a mud bog on a 4×4 track – and de-bogging a caravan

3 December 2021 Robert Pepper

Everyone bar novices and a few crazies hates mud. It’s a real chore to clean, and damages all sorts of thing such as alternators, starter motors, wheel bearings…it’s basically water and grit. Awful. But, you have to deal with it sometimes, and the video below shows how it’s done. The one after…how it’s not! WARNING […]

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Are you being misled by recovery gear ratings?

3 October 2021 Robert Pepper

My latest webinar interview was with the owners of Saber Offroad, a small but increasingly well respected company focused on 4×4 recovery gear. Over the 45m interview we discussed a number of topics and I learned a great deal, more than I expected to, and I’m sure the attendees on Zoom also left the session […]

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Let’s start rating 4X4 recovery gear properly!

27 April 2021 Robert Pepper

There’s no standard for rating 4X4 recovery gear, so you often don’t know exactly what you’re buying or using, and that’s not good for safety. Any 4X4 recovery involves forces, and very often forces so great they are lethal. So, we all need to perform recoveries with due care, skill and knowledge, otherwise there will […]

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Rated Recovery Points?

12 April 2021 Robert Pepper

Reader question: “Firstly, thank you for your channel, there is some really good information there. I am new to 4wds and have found your videos on winching techniques particularly interesting (I loved physics at school!) I have also sent some of your recent videos on traction circles and understeer to my 3 learner drivers for […]

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4×4 Bridle Recovery Forces

11 April 2021 Robert Pepper

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This post answers a few questions about the Bridle Forces recovery video: Can you use a bridle for snatch recovery? Yes, you can, provided the bridle is designed for it. Can you use a tree trunk protector (or tree saver) as a bridle? Yes. Is there a maximum length for a bridle? No, but once […]

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Why didn’t I measure the return force?

24 February 2021 Robert Pepper

Many people have watched my video on Pulley Efficiency where I figure out just how much energy is lost on snatch blocks and snatch rings: And there’s one question which keeps coming up, so I’m answering it here in a blog post. And that is: Why didn’t you just attach the second loadcell to the […]

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RED Winches release the Recovery Ring, a snatch ring with bearings

17 February 2021 Robert Pepper

Snatch rings have been around for a while now, and one criticism has been efficiency…or lack thereof, compared to a conventional snatch block with bearings. I’ve done some testing and found that the concerns are rather over-stated, and the efficiceny of a ring is much closer to a block than has been reported and that […]

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But MAXTRAX are no good in mud!

16 February 2021 Robert Pepper

First time I heard this I thought it was a one-off. Then I heard it again. And again. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Traction ramps are great in any compression terrain (term I’ve learned from Bob Wohlers). Sure, they are most famous for use in sand, but they work very well in mud too, and the techniques […]

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