winching

New to winching. On a recent trip I used my synthetic winch for the first time to pull myself and others out. I prestretch my rope when I first got it onto my winch. I am inspecting the line now and visually seeing a combination of changes to the rope. Here are some pictures. Are these signs I...

Searched around and didn't see anything that focused on the basic's of Recovery and Winching .. Lets call this a live thread and make changes and add info as needed When attempting a recovery or winching someone else's POS or very expensive JEEP, keep in mind you really need to know what your...