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Executing a Rolling Recovery

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WARNING: don't buy a Yankum recovery rope until you watch this.

What happens here

Alan explains the 'rolling recovery' technique for kinetic ropes. The recovery vehicle should position itself with the rope untensioned, then roll forward until it stops, creating a 'light bounce.' This bounce utilizes the kinetic energy stored in the rope to help unstuck the bogged vehicle. If the first attempt isn't successful, the recovery vehicle should back up a little further and repeat the process with slightly more momentum, gradually increasing the 'ante' until the stuck vehicle is free.

Goal: Understand the correct technique for using a kinetic recovery rope

Tools and materials

  • Kinetic Recovery Rope Yankum Ropes — Performing the recovery; designed to stretch and store kinetic energy
  • Recovery Vehicle Dodge Ram 1500 — Providing the pulling force and momentum for the recovery
  • Smartphone iPhone — Communicating with Alan for procedural details

What they say

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equipment okay [Music] now there is a right way and a wrong way to use one of these ropes can you walk us through that please and thank you Al so oh for sure so these ropes are designed so you they honestly don't make great toe ropes since they are they are a little bit more expensive they work wonderfully for dragging a vehicle down the down the highway but these are designed to get the vehicle unstuck whatever it is stuck in the mud it's not it's extraction is what we're specializing in okay and tell me the process you first hook up what do you do okay so the first thing you want to do when you're using your new rope you want to do what's called a rolling recovery so you get the Rope up off the ground it's still not tight and what you do is you roll forward until your vehicle stops moving until your recovery vehicle stops moving forward okay now just put the truck in drive and do nothing else that's it we're gonna let the truck go forward and just tighten up that roll yeah that's that's it right there so that's your rolling recovery so that's your light bounce and then what that does is that that increases your pulling force on the vehicle or whatever it is that's stuck after that what you do is if that doesn't get whatever is stuck unstuck then you back up and you roll forward with a little bit more momentum and you slowly up the ante and we can give we can give her a little bit more help okay go ahead feel free to put her in gay gear and give her a little bit more hell I hopefully won't fall out yeah we're good so if like I said if that second attempt doesn't work then you roll back a little bit farther and you roll forward and you bounce on the end of the Rope if that doesn't work do

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