michaelgroves
Explorer
ExpeditionJeep said:I doubt you'll find a broken or damaged one. I've been running one for a while with no problems and as I understand it the load rating was as high as ARB could produce through either the maximum size steel or synthetic line under an operating actual through the pulley load. In other words, the cable broke in every case before the snatch block began to fail thus they could only rate the block as high as the rope/cable would fail at. That's why there is no minimum destruction rating. It's unknown with current wire rope/plasma capacities.
Marc
I don't really think that's right. The block's rated at 9,000kg, or 18,000kg breaking strain. 13mm Dynex Dux rope has a breaking strain of well over 20,000kg. (For the purposes of determining the ultimate breaking strain of the block, they could also have used oversize rope - an extra 2mm diameter would yield another 5 tons or so!).