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Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2025
These work great. No complaints. Gave these a workout with 3/8" rope, towing 10,000 lbs, moving storage container and lots of riggings, no issues.
Cathleen Scheer
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2025
i have this for my SXS and had to use it twice. Works like a Sharm. Bought it when it was cheaper, but would buy again
Cody P.
Reviewed in Canada on July 6, 2024
Functions as described. Used it to help pull out a tree stump with a winch. Heavy duty. I’d buy it again.
Matt
Reviewed in Canada on July 26, 2024
This thing is a lot bigger than I anticipated. Seemed heavy duty. Robust.Giddy up.
John Sasser
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2024
It is heavy duty and built for the job at hand.
Alejandro
Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2024
Seems sturdy since it's heavy but the gap between the pulley and the frame is too large. If your rope got there you can easily break your rope.
patricia
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024
clearly not as good as we thought it was
Ken K Inouye
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
This snatch block follows the simple, old fashioned design and function of snatch blocks made from decades ago. For that reason, and that this snatch block is made from stamped steel sufficiently thick for its purpose, this is a well made snatch block. Definitely 5 stars.
Bachman-Cummings Fan
Reviewed in Canada on February 13, 2024
Works like a charm! Very smooth pulley....very strong and used to pull some badly leaning trees away from house while cutting them down ..perfect!
tyrone jacks
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2023
not anything about it i disliked
Joshua N.
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2023
Bushings instead of bearings in the spool, terribly inefficient, you think you're going to get a 2:1 pull strength? You'll probably get 1.5:1 once you factor in the friction loss.. built very strong and heavy, but the bushings were a real 👎
frank farrar
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2022
I like working with 4,000 lb. rated 1/2" rope rather than wire rope or cable. Much lighter and more user friendly for those interesting tree removal situations. (Any time you have a tree that really wants to fall in an inconvenient direction, that's an interesting situation.)I already had a similar snatch block that served me well over the years. This one is a bit nicer and comes with a warning sticker. "If choker hole elongates ... block should be replaced." Always good to know what about-to-fail looks like. Yikes! Glad to report the holes in my old block never got stretched out of round. Limiting oneself to hand cranked winches does have that benefit.The beauty of using a snatch block rather than a pully block is that you don't have to feed a bunch of rope through your blocks. You just swing them open and lay the rope in there. Very handy for setting up what can quickly become a few hundred feet of rope for (more) safely dealing with that interesting tree.With a single block you can double the pull of your winch. With two blocks correctly arranged you can triple the pull of your winch, making about 3,000 pounds of manually generated pull available. If that isn't plenty for the job, it's time to consider paying for a professional tree service.This is a well-made block for a good price. The most important thing to be aware of is the maximum pulling capacity of the winch you will be using. With an 8-ton block be very careful with any winch that may exceed 4-tons, which is not a large winch. Rope or cable needs to match the capacity of the winch with at least a 50% safety margin. In my crazy world there is no way for me to break anything in my setup, which is not to pretend that I'm perfectly safe. (Anyone who picks up a chainsaw has left that ideal condition behind and should proceed accordingly.)For what it may be worth, in relatively low-load situations, this is a fine addition to that collection of ropes, pullies, and winches. Just know what you're doing, please.
Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2022
This is a medium block duty. Tycpally for something like Jeep wrangler you will want a ten-ton block at minimum but this is probably fine for most situations. For a mid to large pickup truck I would use a 20 ton and certainly not 8. . I really don't like the fact that these are referred to as "snatch blocks" since a snatch is something done with momentum and that is not what you want to do with this. But all makers call them that. What you use this for principally is to reduce load on a winch, since a simple block in theory reduced load by 50% (in reality more like 40%).This is 17,600 MBT means a WLL/working load of no more than 5,900lbs.Now be smart. a 10,000 truck pulled on level ground is is a very low load, you may even be able to use gear rated for 2,000 lbs for that. but a 8,000 lb vehicle stuck deep in mud or with a wheel deeply between two large rocks could be a 20,000 lb load or more. so it is not just your vehicle gross weight that you consider in each of your pieces of equipment's MBS or WLL but how it is stuck.Also for basic off loading be aware that most clubs are now preferring simple non mechanical rings on soft shackles for safety reasons.For what this is it is well put together. labeling is fine but nowhere is any notation on use of synthetic rope with this.
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