Winching Techniques
1. First thing I want you to do is put a towel floor mat something over your winch cable while pulling. This will help if the line breaks helping the whip back. This one annoys me how many off roaders don't do it and don't even know about this.
2. Dead man anchor: when your stuck with nothing to strap to. You can bury your spare tire or something like wood pole anything in the ground to use as an anchor. The soil\ground and weight of your vehicle will determine how deep your anchor will have to be buried. Just remember as you back fill the hole every 6" or so compact the material by jumping or stomping what ever you can.
3. Snatch Blocks: You can use more then one to increase your pulling power for those really tuff pulls.
shows a typical Double Line:
A Double Line as used for self recovery using an anchor point such as a tree.
Indirect Double Line Pull
Indirect pulling may be required because of obstacles. The pulley block is attached to the load and the wire rope is attached to an anchor point offset from the direction in which the load is to be moved. Note that this procedure is not recommended unless necessary as the winch pulling power and line speed will decrease as the angle between the wire rope increases.
Single Line Pull
Warn basic winching guide
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