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Equipment Recovery and Towing Safety Warning

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Snowmageddon!

What happens here

The Solis loader becomes stuck in a particularly deep and heavy snowdrift. Zakk attempts to pull it out using the Kubota R530 loader and a flat tow strap. The strap snaps under the strain, demonstrating the extreme force involved and the inadequacy of a standard tow strap for such heavy recovery. Stanley interjects with a critical safety warning, explaining that using a non-kinetic tow strap is extremely dangerous and can lead to severe injury or death if it breaks, as it can recoil with deadly force. He advocates for kinetic 'yank 'em' ropes, designed to stretch and absorb energy, reducing the risk of recoil.

Goal: Recover stuck heavy equipment safely and understand proper towing techniques.

Tools and materials

  • Flat Tow Strap — Attempted to tow the stuck loader (NOT RECOMMENDED)
  • Kubota R530 Loader Kubota — Used as the recovery vehicle
  • Solis Loader Solis — The primary equipment stuck in the snow

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[Music] another advantage that the kab mot loader has that many loaders just don't have is it has a diff lock on it so it's basically like four-wheel drive for a loader but even with that without having good tires she's not going anywhere all right so I just had a complete crap my pants moment here uh we thought I thought all the footage got deleted off this car and it didn't there is a good load up above but not for when we get the loader stuck and we were on pack hard pack hard pack hard pack and then you hit it just right and boom down she went I got a strap on right now just an attempt to try and get it out or if we can possibly get it unstuck otherwise we're probably going to be waiting here until Alex gets here with the kinetic rope to really Yank on it cuz otherwise we ain't getting it out so yeah I'm just going to put it live and it run and we'll see if we get this out this right here don't do just don't do this this is the way guys get killed you see that strap back there it's not meant to be a tow strap I mean an emergency but if that snaps it could go right straight through that back windshield and right into an operator's head guys have died doing this they got these things called yankum ropes it's meant to pull loaders out now I don't have they don't happen to have one with them I know that otherwise they'd be using the yank them even if it was an undersized Yan them they'd still be using it because it's way safer than doing what they're doing right here please don't do this I don't want to see you get hurt and now that I see the slack in the line you can see the hook is still on it which makes this even worse than worse because if it does break that hook will definitely shatter the window and could go straight into an operator's [Applause] head all right that didn't work so we're going to wait on the kinetic rope so Sledge is down for right now and then we're going to keep going on this parking lot so all right everybody I would have captured a little more footage but Sam was helping me out with some footage and his like left the camera in his truck cuz he grabbed it off a pole and then dipped out after we were done with our first plowing session now we're moving snow right now I got the I I did have The Pusher on for a bit but now I got the Raptor on and snow bucket cuz I'm pushing up snow we got the mecc down over here or pushing down with the push sure it's a small one so it can actually

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