Soft Shackle On A Winch Line?

[yarmo]

I think this is an awesome idea. How do you connect the soft shackle to the end of your winch line without it being doubled up? Did you make a brummel loop at the end of your winch line? Thanks, from a winching newb.

Winch lines come with a brummel loop already on the end. Just pull your hook and thimble off and loop the soft shackle through it then you're good to go.

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[roaniecowpony]

I think this is an awesome idea. How do you connect the soft shackle to the end of your winch line without it being doubled up? Did you make a brummel loop at the end of your winch line? Thanks, from a winching newb.

My plan is to remove my flat link and just go with a brummel loop on the end.

 

[yarmo]

My plan is to remove my flat link and just go with a brummel loop on the end.

Yeah I was thinking about doing that but I didn't want to have the loop fully exposed all the time, so I just keep my soft shackle on the end to hold it and then use a different one when I'm actually winching.

 

[J0E]

I was planning on tossing my flatlink. Flatlinks are just a way for a CNC mill owner to make the payments on it. It's also an attractive nuisance for the scummy types that would cut your winch line to take a pretty colored machined part they know not how to use.

I'm planning on keeping a steel thimble on the end of the winch rope, so the bend radius on the end doesn't go below the minimum. I watched some testing and it seems that it matters a bunch if the radius is too small. So you still have a metal object on the end of the winch rope which could become a projectile. Any kind of line damper or a snag line should mitigate the relatively low energy hazard.



I also have some raw Samson Amsteel to make up some soft shackles and make a 100ft winch extension with, adding to the few storebought soft shackles I already have (can't have too many). I'm sitting here looking at the rope and thimbles now, wondering if I should do it today.

But yeah, good idea to lose the flatlink, IMO.

I'm planning on keeping a steel thimble on the end of the winch rope, so the bend radius on the end doesn't go below the minimum.

That's what I'm doing, and a D-ring connected to the steel thimble

 

[dragoneggs]

Yeah I was thinking about doing that but I didn't want to have the loop fully exposed all the time, so I just keep my soft shackle on the end to hold it and then use a different one when I'm actually winching.

This is my concern with having your synthetic line loop always exposed to the elements.

 

[CodyW]

Yeah I was thinking about doing that but I didn't want to have the loop fully exposed all the time, so I just keep my soft shackle on the end to hold it and then use a different one when I'm actually winching.

That's a good idea. I only have new soft shackles so I think I will try to create a rubber cover (probably out of a bike inner tube) for the one I leave on the winch. Once one of my soft shackles looks like it's ready to be tossed I'll use that for winch line stowing and not use it in recoveries.

Thanks for all the good advice and ideas!

 

[roaniecowpony]

That's a good idea. I only have new soft shackles so I think I will try to create a rubber cover (probably out of a bike inner tube) for the one I leave on the winch. Once one of my soft shackles looks like it's ready to be tossed I'll use that for winch line stowing and not use it in recoveries.

Thanks for all the good advice and ideas!

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