![]() I normally keep a Rugged Ridge block (30K) in my bed box along with three Crosby 3/4" links and a Rusty's Offroad tree saver strap which is rated at 60K. They each weigh about 50lbs so I dont keep them in my truck unless I know I am going out in the woods. They were barely used, the sheaves didn't have a mark on them and with some spray paint look new. They are over kill for what I have, but when I got them from a company that was going out of business for about $150 each, I couldn't pass them up. They dont have a brand name on them, but say "Made in USA". They are made for up to 1-1/8" cable and are marked 20T. The two I have are heavy monsters with 6" sheaves I got from a rigging company years ago. I have a 15K winch and all my hardware and straps have a working load of 35k or better, and my pulleys are both 40k. So, yes, you should buy a pulley rated for 33K or a little better for a safety margin. A 180 degree change (out and straight back to very near the winch itself) would be 33K, and decrease as the angle opened up. I have seen a couple bumpers pulled off of trucks that were used as anchors for other stuck rigs with winches!!!Ī pulley used for a directional change would handle less than 33K depending on the angle of the direction change. choose your anchor points wisely if you need that much force. Thats either really, really stuck, or you have a winch very undersized for your truck!! Adding more pullies will increase the total pulling force, but as long as they are connected to multiple anchor points or multiple straps, then everything would still be at or below 33K.īut if you connect two pullies to your bumper and two to a tree, you could be pulling as much as 60,000 lbs (or more) against the bolts holding your bumber to the frame, or at the other end you could have 30 tons pulling against that tree in the wet sandy soil. This would be if you had the winch line run out, through the pulley and then back connected to your truck near the winch and then pulling to complete stall on the winch. If your winch can pull 16.5K, then the most load a single pulley can have placed on it would be 33K. ![]()
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