Hey!! You blokes using snatch straps are doing it wrong !!. :))).

No he did it wrong, he never engaged 4wd from the start, he still should have used an air arrestor

How would the greenies like the ad, to them it could be a message for everyone to pull out trees with their 4bys

Can't wait to see the outcome of the courst case.........

you know the one I mean, don't you??

Well it hasn't started yet; but it's only a matter of time I reckon.

I can see it now.............

Holden is accused of manslaughter following the death of a driver who was decapitated when the chain he'd attached to the back of his Holden Rodeo (a la the advertisement on TV) and then attached the other end to a tree stump (or similar stubborn object), broke. The resultant missile bleep tered the back window of his ute before taking the hapless bloke's head off and smashing it against the inside of the windscreen...... etc etc.

Did you know that they even make snatch straps strong enough for the military to use on army tanks ! Chains are now old technology (and the are heavy).

I dont know if your joking with the chain thing but I was of the opinion that you dont actually loose pulling power with straps, the tow car puts kinetic energy into the rope, it is stored temporarily as potential and then released in the opposite way by retracting and jerking the stuck car along. So its actually giving more force to the stuck car that traction alone would, in fact its probably around 10 or more times the force applied to the stuck car than that of the tow cars engine/traction.

Axle
Now here is a new use for the straps , the load binder type . of which would probably be ok for an extension strap .
Bloke had a flat battery on his Scania the other day , truck had lost air so it could not be jump started by towing as all wheels were locked , so he jacks up 1 dual wheel of the bogie drive ,backs off the brake cam manually , wraps a strap around the wheel about 4 times, hooks the other end to a 4x4 landcruiser ute, driver gets in the cab ,puts the truck in gear and holds the clutch down, landcruiser goes in reverse hard and spins the jacked up wheel , driver pops the clutch and she started ,

interesting story doug, can you expand on what happened I dont understand.

No matter which car forum you look on, people seem to analyse the TV commercials a bit too much, and if something is not possible in real life, such as a toddler driving a car, an XR8 ute being a literal chic magnet, a Nissan Patrol driving over a huge fallen tree, and only the CD has the possibility of jumping, an F250 recovering a bogged (drowned) road train or a ute pulling out a stump .... Why analyze the accuracy of it's portrayed reality? A TV commercial is a work of art - whether it be a good one or not. Art is not supposed to depict reality all the time (otherwise it would look like a home video), its a selling tool, to trigger the emotions. There's nothing unethical about that, unless it claims to state facts which are inaccurate. People will sell themselves to buy a product based on their perceptions of it anyway, and not for what it really is (99.9999% of the time).

Gday
The only thing you have to worry about is the Cherry Blossom flying up behind the old stump,they are usually covered with bees and they hurt.