 Hi, I'm Chuck with razor back off-road. We're out here today in the beautiful mountain home desert to introduce a new Product that we've come up with and like all of our products. This one was born out of necessity A few months back I was out here in the desert not far from here and and got stuck and really had a hard time finding anything to Hook my winch to to winch myself out and we really felt there should be a better way So we set about trying to design a way to quickly anchor yourself so what we came up with is our razorback off-road recovery shovel and It's designed has a lot of features in it Its primary function is to be used as a recovery shovel, which I'm going to show you here in a few minutes But I thought I would just kind of talk you through some of the options that we did So the first thing we did here in the handle is we put a half inch Drive on here and that's going to allow you to put a half inch drive socket on So you can use this thing as a lug wrench if you need to loosen or tighten change a tire tighten your lug nuts whatever and I think that's just a really neat feature that we've got on there The other thing we've done is we've added a steel slug in here So you could use this side as a hammer if you need to pound on something Now as we move down into the real I guess you will the meat and potatoes of the shovel. You'll see we've got some really nice Teeth on here to help you get a good footing when you're putting this into the ground You'll also notice we've reinforced the neck portion of the shovel right here And that's to really give it a lot of strength when you're Pulling against this as you'll see here a little bit in the video We also have a hole here where you'll put the shackle that's included with the shovel But I want to draw your attention to these serrations that we've done on the top and the bottom So it will cut through wood But its primary focus is when you're digging into the ground that it'll help you to saw through the root zone If you have a big root in the way Another feature of it is these two little divots on here that you can use to get underneath your tent stake If you need to pry your tent stakes out All in all, we just wanted to build the absolute best off-roading shovel we could do it We also put in these notches here in the top of it that align very well with our razorback off-road universal tool mount as you can see I've got another shovel here on my ranger and I was actually out L cutting this weekend. You see it's dirty. We actually used it up there quite a bit But this notch is designed to fit between these two bolts so that When you get it secured in here the shovel doesn't rotate back and forth So it's a really nice option. One thing I'd like to go into before we start winching on this vehicle is to really talk about Being able to store this shovel. I think using our universal tool mounts probably the best way there is to store this now This thing isn't just designed for our Our cargo racks you can mount this to any flat surface So just about anything you can think of and then you have your shovel very secure So I feel like I've done enough talking about the shovel Let's go out and do some winching so you can see this thing in the real world All right Well now we're out to the fun part of the video which we're actually going to start winching on this ranger And that's that's a pretty heavy vehicle what we're going to do is we're going to lock the rear axles Simulate that you're trying to pull yourself, you know out of a hole or out of a mud Mud hole or something like that, but inevitably the question is going to come up How much or how hard can I winch against the shovel and I can't answer that because it depends on the Ground soils and all that what I can tell you is you have a better chance of getting out with this than not having Anything at all to pull against so this is just one more tool for your toolbox to help you in recovery I'm going to have Jake come in here and just a little bit. He's the Primary engineer on this and he's going to be my anchor man and we're going to show you how this works but one of the things that I wanted to tell you is the further you can get away from the Casualty when you're winching or your buggy the the better off this thing's going to work And that has to do with the line angle and if any of you want to learn a little more about winching at the end Of this video we're going to go back to the shop and I'm going to try to talk to you a little bit about winching because I have a Pretty good handle on that So we've installed our shackle now we're going to go ahead and Set this shovel in the ground, but one of the things that I want you to know is this shovel We've designed the angle of this to self-barry itself, and you're really going to see that once we start winching You know, I wish I had a disclaimer to insert here from liability And you know, obviously you need to follow all these precautions when you're using your winch read your owner's manual And just do everything you can to be smart about Winching yourself out now. We're ready to engage the rigging. So here we go Notice the self-barry design how it's burying itself in the ground and now the rig starting to slide towards us We're dragging the back of it and The shovels just burying itself into the ground Well, I hope you've enjoyed this video. We've done on our razorback recovery shovel as you can see. It's quite impressive You know, we were able to winch the Ranger North Star full-size machine with the rear brakes lock and drag it when we hooked on to the 900 trail machine We just had total command of it What we found through our testing is we've been able to generate a little over a thousand pounds of resistance in most cases So that's like putting a thousand pound anchor in front of you and winching against it Of course, as I said earlier, all that depends on soil conditions. How big a person you have on the other end But like I also said, you're much better off. You have a bigger chance of getting out with that shovel Then without it as you can see, there's just nothing out here to tie to and that's why we developed it I also want to point out that this is a limited production run shovel We're building it because I felt a need for it for my machines My friends that have been using it absolutely love them We've had people wanting them for Christmas gifts and father's gifts So we are going into production on these, but we're just not sure how many we're going to be producing. I Wanted to get that point across I also wanted to mention we're gonna do a quick video at the end of this about winching nothing fancy but just share some knowledge that I've got on winching and I hope to see you out on the trail Well, we've just came in from outdoors and as I mentioned in that video We're gonna talk a little bit about winching and try to share some knowledge that I've learned over the years The question came up in here while we were making the video who certified me to talk to you about winching and I Wanted to let you know for about 15 years. I own my own towing company I also had an aircraft recovery business and for about 10 years I was a rec master instructor So I went all over the country teaching winching classes actually throughout the United States So I feel qualified to talk to you about winching to me. It was a big passion of my life. It's really and gives you a lot of Comfort when you start to understand these basic principles of winching. So here we go Okay, we're gonna go home so The main discipline that I was taught that you really need to remember is that the golden rule to winching and What is the golden rule the winching? The golden rule to winching is Lines to the load. I hope you guys can see this but it's lines to the load Don't ever forget that. So the question is what do I mean by that? So we're gonna pick a pick a good color here that should show up. Well, we'll go ahead and go with black So if this is the front of your razor or Can am whatever did you have here's your winch? And we're gonna take the winch line out and we're gonna hook onto a load and Let's just say this load weighs a thousand pounds So this is your machine. This is your winch. This is your line winch line, and this is the load So the load is a thousand pounds. So if you engage the winch and This load starts to move The load on this line will be one thousand pounds and it's that simple so Why is that important? Well let's say Your winch can only pull 500 pounds or your winch line is only rated for 500 pounds working load limit. How do we reduce line load? We're gonna draw another scenario here where you have your machine. Here's your winch We're gonna line out to the same load This load here has a thousand pounds on it, and we're gonna hook a snatch block on it And we're gonna run the winch line back, and we're gonna hook it to the front of your machine Now what is the golden rule the winching? Lines to the load the question is How many lines do we have going to the load? The answer is two Which means there's 500 pounds on this line and 500 pounds on this line and that means your winch Your winch is pulling 500 pounds and you've anchored 500 pounds To the other side of your machine That is how you reduce line load or you multiply winching effort I'm gonna show you just one more thing we could do Well, let's talk about this. Let me go back Here's where things start to get confusing to people and I'm gonna go nice and slow Let's say you Come and you got a winch and hook to a tree Here's a big anchor tree and you run through a snatch block and you come down to the load And the load still weighs a thousand pounds The question is how many lines do we have to the load? And the answer is one. There's only one line touching the load. So the line load here is a thousand pounds And the line load here is a thousand pounds and that means your Razor or K&M or Kawasaki, whatever you have Hust is going to have a thousand pounds of line load on it So how do you reduce line load? Well, you need to increase Lines to the load. How can we do that? Well, let's just look at another scenario So we come off the front of our winch We're going to come down here to that same tree Have a snatch block We're going to hook to this same anchor Or this load of a thousand pounds of resistance. We need to overcome We're going to put a snatch block in the line and we're going to go back to the tree Now What is the how many lines going to the load? What's the golden rule the winching lines to the load? There's two lines going to the load 500 or a thousand divided by two that means there's 500 on this line 500 on this line 500 here and that means Your machine will have a load against it of 500 pounds Hopefully that makes Sense to everybody where a lot of people get confused Is they believe that running the line through this multiplies effort or reduces line load and it does not The only way a snatch block will help you multiply effort is if it travels The snatch block has to move with the load if it doesn't move with the load. It's not multiplying effort This is a fixed snatch block. It's not going to move. It's just going to spin This snatch block right here is a traveling block. It's going to move and so it'll reduce effort This one is fixed. It's not going to reduce effort This snatch block here is a traveling block. It's going to reduce effort because it moves with a load so Always try to remember that that a fixed block does nothing but do a direction change and a running block multiplies effort or reduces line load as the way I like to think about it So another thing that we want to talk about I'm going to go ahead and clear this Now what I want to take a moment and talk a little bit about Is wire rope or synthetic rope or your winch line And that's very important to understand the rating of the winch line on your vehicle The reason that's important is Moat or while all wire rope or all synthetic rope is going to have a minimum ultimate load You may see it written as M U L And that means minimum ultimate load You may also see the term breaking strength You get the idea or you might see just U L which is ultimate load And what that means is the manufacturer says They've took your winch line that they sell and they pulled it in the machine And they've recorded the times that it breaks and let's say One winch line broke at 11 000 pounds and one broke at 10 800 pounds and one broke at 10 500 and one broke at 12 000 And then after all of these testings one broke at 10 000 pounds They're going to say the minimum ultimate load of this winch line Is 10 000 pounds So the ultimate load Is 10 000 pounds. So if you put a force of 10 000 pounds on it Very high probability that that number or slightly above it that wire rope or synthetic rope is going to fail So the winch line manufacturers want to put that rope in the hands of People and they want to give it a factor of safety so that You don't overload the winch line Now wire rope factors of safety depend on the industry they're being used in depend on the manufacturer There's a lot of variables, but for today's lesson We're going to say that The factor of safety So the safety factor Is four So what the manufacturer is going to do is they're going to take 10 000 pounds divided by four And they're going to give it a working load limit Of 2 500 pounds So if you see the term working load limit The manufacturer's saying hey You can take this winch line And pull on it all day every day use it in As long as you don't abrade it or damage it as long as you don't put a force of more than 2 500 pounds on it Everything's going to be fine because its minimum breaking strength is 10 000 pounds It's very important that you understand what the working load limit of your rope is And you never exceed that number It doesn't matter to me if you have a 10 000 pound winch a 50 000 pound winch or 100 000 pound winch You still cannot pull more than 2 500 pounds on this particular winch line in this scenario In my research it appears that most synthetic ropes on These smaller winches 4500 pound to 6 000 pound that are on most Side by sides Will have a breaking strength of anywhere between 7 000 pounds and 12 000 pounds It it also all depends on the manufacturer's factor of safety So you got to figure that out so you don't exceed that. I hope that makes sense to everybody Now the next thing that I I want to talk to you a little bit is called resistance So i'm going to go ahead and erase this now. What is resistance? Well resistance is the force That you need to overcome to set a vehicle in motion So i want to talk to you about a razor Or a side by side i'm trying to It really doesn't matter what it is So we have a we have a machine right here and as you can see i'm My art class lessons are really starting to pay off So here's your razor and it's course. It's got to have an rbo Cardboard rack on the back of it Spare tire we got all that So it astounds me how few people actually know how much their machine weighs and everything that we're doing in winching We really need to know the weight the hard number We need to know how much this thing weighs and that's typically referred to As i'm going to write it up here is the static weight oops and Or the curb weight that's saying how much does this vehicle weigh if you were to just set it on the scale So for just simplicity for math stakes today We're going to say that this machine weighs 2000 pounds And we're going to say that the front wheel weighs 1000 pound And the rear axle excuse me the front axle weighs 1000 pounds and the rear axle weighs 1000 pounds Well if we were to hook a winch line on this thing And pull it and we want to pull it that way There's a force that we need to overcome to put this vehicle in motion So there's some basic tools that I want to give you that I that I've learned So the first one is is rolling resistance Rolling resistance And that is How much force I'm going to put some grass under this thing does it take To put this vehicle in motion Well, that depends a little bit if it's on hard packed asphalt or if it's out in soft grass But the number I would like to give you is 10 So if you hook up if this thing's in neutral and you hook a winch line on it And you're on a hard packed surface And you put 200 pounds Or 10 percent Of force 200 pounds of force Against this vehicle on a flat level surface. It is going to move forward Now that number could be significantly less Depending on how full the air the tires are How hard packed the ground is but at 10 percent Of the vehicle weight that machine is going to go forward So if you hooked your winch line onto this with one single line remember golden rule the winching is lines to the load The force on your vehicle here. Let me just draw a winch the force on your winch So we're going to put one line out our load is 200 pounds The load on the winch line is 200 pounds The working load limit of our winch line from the last when I talked to you just a minute ago Was 2,500 pounds So we're well within the working load limit Of our winch and we can hook a single winch line on this and pull it no problem Okay Well, because most of us Don't need to move our Side by side when the wheels are free and they rotate freely. We're usually stuck And That type of resistance is called damaged Or there's a mired resistance as well, but I'm going to keep it very simple today So the next one is damaged resistance And damage is when an axle will not rotate in a normal fashion like in the video You saw us drag that side by side and the front wheels rotated and the back will slid So that means this wheel is in a damaged resistance And that factor is 66 percent or times point six six six So that means this wheel will not rotate in a normal fashion. It's locked and it's going to slide So we take 1,000 times point six six We come up with six hundred and sixty six pounds So it will take six hundred and sixty six pounds of force To move that vehicle We also want the front axle to move with it and it's rolling. So this will It'll rotate in a normal fashion Remember rolling resistance is ten percent. So we're going to write rolling resistance Is ten percent Hopefully you can see all that So ten percent of one thousand pounds So is One hundred pounds. We want to move these two together So we add one hundred to two six sixty six. So we got seven hundred Sixty six pounds of resistance If we hook a winch on this and we want to move it move the vehicle forward in this scenario We need to move seven hundred and sixty six pounds The working load limit of our wire rope is two thousand five hundred pounds So when we engage the winch, we're not exceeding the working load limit of our winch line because the load is only Seven hundred and sixty six pounds. So we can pull this with a single winch line Hopefully that makes sense to everybody Well, there's a lot more we could talk about I feel like um, based on the response of this video We'll decide whether or not we want to really get elaborate and add some animation I just wanted to really kind of Get the juices going and start people thinking about winching and how much fun there is once you understand the numbers And incidentally if you're really dealing with big stuff All you got to do is add another zero and this two thousand pound load goes to twenty thousand pounds or two hundred thousand the Factors are all the same. You treat every job the same way when it comes to winching. Remember you got to calculate the weight of your vehicle Calculate the resistance to overcome Calculate your winch lines working load limit And that'll tell you how many lines to the load you need before you engage the winch If you have a positive plan going into a scenario, you're going to have a successful Success coming out of it Well, I know I went on and on and talked. I hope you enjoyed this and I hope to see you out on the trail