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Which is why exposing as few people to it during a recovery is fundamental. I get what you're driving at but I prefer to have things stay put. Lighter is not better if it introduces a new potential point of failure. That's fundamentally what I'm saying. Things can fail so how do you design...

You must start with a known shackle, so no, you cannot know any shackle is good. I would trust Crosby, Gunnebo, Columbus McKinnon, Campbell or Van Beest that you can reasonably assume is not counterfeit (this is common to everything, so can we agree to the assumption that a shackle, length of...

The only thing I might point out (since I also do not have a daily driver) is the financials do need to account for your sanity and time. It's ultimately a hobby where you justify more luxury than you need in the first place. You could use a tent, a 2WD pickup and hiking boots to get to the...

It's not silly. Perhaps the margins are unnecessarily large (design yield is 5 x WLL and proof is 2 x WLL on a B30.26 bow shackle) but at least you know it's capability and the manufacturer has specific inspection criteria to know it's condition. It's a go/no-go decision requiring only a...

The risk to modifying your truck is being able to repair it in the field and if it's not something you're going to do yourself or is a common swap then retaining the factory configuration makes sense I guess. But what else have you changed from the factory? Your truck is already not like it...

Seems to me this is the conundrum because what you're asking of a 1/2 ton is too much. This time it could have been a bad rebuild but either way you're at the margin of what the truck can do. Just my $0.02, you need a truck that can do what you ask of it and if that means you daily drive a 3/4...

Attached Dyneema chemical resistance paper.

B30.9 has nylon web slings, roundslings, woven eye rope slings, wire rope slings, steel chain slings. I don't see anything about a knotted shackle. The industry that I thought might cover them is arborists, that's what I assumed would be the first specifying authority someone might mention...

Can someone post the equivalent to ASME B30.26 and FSC RR-C-271 for soft rigging? I'm curious how they are rated and tested. I assume there must be some specification on types of knots and inspection & proof criteria.

If you mean such as adjusting the visibility of a PDF, not that I can tell. It only lets me select one map to use and puts your location on top of that image. FWIW, these are the free Garmin maps I generally use. They are periodically updated from the OSM database and overlaid on contour and...

I read your first two paragraphs and Avenza jumped to mind, so it probably means something when I saw you'd already considered it in your third paragraph. Something I don't think you'll be able to really avoid with digital maps is some amount of searching for the right maps. It's possible to...

As much as it pains me to admit that Toyota has fallen in quality. Their trucks are probably still better than average but not by a wide margin anymore and Big 3 trucks have improved, often having the same suppliers as Toyota now. The one reason I think Toyota remains at the top of my list is...

Was just thinking about what you said and I wanted to mention that you don't need new to be a 2019. When I felt I'd worn out my 1991 beyond where I could trust it daily I went looking for a replacement and considered 2015 Tacomas (at the time that being current model year). I just really...

Old school, I love it. I don't have a self-contained white gas stove like that, just 2- and 3-burner camp stoves and 1-burner backpacking stoves with separate tanks (I do like my MSR a lot). As a result I tend to use a Gigapower canister stove in this situation. I prefer liquid fuel and...

Paul, this is what a couple of Rising Sun friends found poking around Monday-Tuesday prior to Cruise Moab (also Beef Basin as a matter of fact). Good old fashioned Utah goo. Heavy, light, doesn't matter because short of perhaps implement tires you end up with slicks anyway.

The Uniden 510 uses a standard 4-pin dynamic mic. The radio isn't built to use an electret element so if you used one the audio would be very low. You could use one if it was self-powered but with CB the effort of doing that (primarily higher fidelity audio) isn't worth the trouble. Just get...

Canyonlands backcountry permits become available on a 4-month rolling opening. You can't reserve one a year in advance. For very popular times you have to wake up at midnight 4 months ahead of when you want to run the WRT and reserve your permit. If you're a gambler and flexible on specifics...

It's true, you can't have everything and as a result of the futile pursuit of it we're getting "small" trucks that barely fit on the trails.

Whatever you decide to do consider if the frame modifications are done then they should be backed by an engineer willing to put his or her stamp on it. Not saying Toyota is perfect, they are not. But they are building a frame that results from their accumulated knowledge and rigid frames...