4WD Rear Recovery Hitch - SABER OFF ROAD REAR RATED RECOVERY POINT REVIEW
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Rear vehicle recovery points 101. In the market for some aftermarket recovery points for your 4x4 (four wheel drive) off-road vehicle? Does your vehicle come equipped with factory 'recovery', 'tow' or 'tie-down' points? Are they suitable for recovery situations? In this video we review the Saber Off-Road Recovery Hitch which is designed to be used primarily with Soft Shackles but can also be used with rated steel Bow Shackles.
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Four wheel driving and recovery gear
1:00 - Recovery gear old and new
1:33 - Front vehicle recovery points
1:51 - Rear vehicle recovery points
2:28 - Never use a towball!
2:40 - Traditional rear recovery hitch
3:05 - Saber rear recovery hitch
3:27 - Design
4:09 - Construction; Saber vs traditional recovery hitch
5:10 - Additional benefits
6:04 - Conclusion
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The Saber Off-Road Recovery Hitch is designed to:
- Fit any vehicle fitted with a 50 x 50mm tow bar
- Use with Soft Shackles (eliminating additional steel components from the recovery equation). Can also be used with rated steel Bow Shackles
- Tested to over 35,000 kg with no deformation. Working Load Limit of 5000 kg
- Fully cast steel construction
- Shot peened finished for added strength
- Allows for multidirectional (horizontal and vertical) recovery pulls
For more information, see:
saberoffroad.com/
There are some very important considerations when it comes to purchasing and installing off-road (4x4) vehicle recovery points. Not all 'recovery' points are the same, not all are equal.
Some recovery situations can generate forces up to 2 to 3 times the vehicle's Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM). These forces are transmitted through the recovery gear (eg. bow shackles, snatch straps etc.) to the vehicle's recovery point(s) and then through to the vehicle's chassis. Whilst a strong recovery point is essential, it is only as strong as the chassis it is attached to. - Jak na to + styl
Soft shackle on the sharp edges of a recovery point is a big no no . The hitch looks good and well designed for soft shackles . Snatching creates far greater shock loads than steady towing so snatching off a single tow ball is risky. It can break and the strap can also come off . Sorry I don't agree that a cast heat treated steel is better than a forged steel and then machined steel because the machining involved is only milling and drilling and a forged blank has less chance of voids or inclusions than a cast steel . However the cross section of your hitch looks bigger and the shape also makes it stronger . They both would do about the same job on a 4x4 .
Looks just like a lunette ring for a pintle style hitch.
My 18-wheeler has two of these fir recovery.
We are up to 40 tons.
I will most probably get slated for this comment, but I have doubts that recovering off a tow ball, is a problem. There were some guys on CZcams that aimed to show the dangers of tow ball recovery, but they went to some ridiculous extremes to make it happen. They tied the recovered vehicle to a tree, they use a non-stretch recovery rope, they use excessive speed during the snatch (so much so that it caused some serious whiplash issues for the driver) and in the end, they had to saw through half of the tow ball shaft to make it fail. If your Saber hitch was half sawn through, it will also most probably fail. Anyway, seems like a nice product the Saber hitch and certainly one to consider for one’s recovery arsenal. Thanks
From memory, ADR 3.5T towballs must be able to take a 5.5T load for 10 seconds to be compliant.
In the testing he used a 12T snatch strap and the first towball did shear with just the strap before he started cutting them. The methods used could have been better :)
I've loaded up a snatch strap to only 4T, and let it rip with a 4.75T bow shackle connected. It accelerated from 0 to 340+kph in about 10 meters, sounded like a shot gun blast and made minced meat of the metal rod reinforced 4" thick wooden back stop we were using to protect the tree.
Don't use towballs.....
Agree 100%
Another great video. It's certainly unlike anything else on the market. What size shackle fits the hitch?
Cheers, thank you! The eye has an inside diameter of 40mm. The 4.75T Bow Shackle used in the video would just fit on, so this would be the smallest Bow Shackle you could use with this Recovery Hitch.
@@NJSInstructional Cheers, thanks for the reply.
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I was under the impression they were specifically designed to not accommodate a steel shackle. I accept the video clearly shows otherwise. 🤔