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Subject:Re: Place to mount shackles?
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Thu, 26 May 2011 07:23:59 -0700

2 reasons to add another hook

1. existing loop squashed or deformed. (mine is flattened a bit) and
therefore you don't trust it. I haven't gone out of my way to "Go and
try to break it", but it sure ain't pristine.

2. situations where you can only pull from, or access the side
opposite the stock loop.

alistair

On 25-May-11, at 10:43 PM, miguel pacheco wrote:

> Back to reality.....Mr Squirrel has made it pretty clear just how
> aggressive he intends to get. Clearly that 'sheet metal' is adequate
> for his needs. I can safely guess that most of the people on this
> list will find that front loop more than adequate. I don't know just
> where I might fall into a 'study group,' if one ever was created,
> but I can safely state, judging by this conversation, that I've
> tested this little loop more than enough to have a damned good
> opinion of what it can do. I've used it and never wondered what it's
> limitations were. I've just put it to work and it has never failed.
> Not like a damned fool, tearing away, shocking the works and so on.
> That's how you break anything. In any case, I've pulled many
> embarrassed 3/4 ton pick em up trucks out of the snow banks, with my
> little old Syncro, over the last 25 yrs in Colorado....with that
> little loop in the front. So here is my science. Go and try to break
> it........I have.
> Miguel
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> Controversial, revolutionary signature line removed as
> requested........
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