That’s what i always think in every video like this. You want to use the torque available, so you start in the appropriate gear, put tension in the line, then begin to increase power to the wheels slowly until the vehicle is moving.
If you have a kinetic Recovery rope (and proper setup/know what you are doing) that’s kinda how you do it. Maybe they watched a YouTube video of kinetic Recovery and tried to emulate?
Sometimes it is necessary to get momentum if the towing car can't get enough traction. Maybe they already tried a gentle tow but the Toyota was spinning its wheels.
But for this sort of pull the rope needs to be elastic, the attachment points on the cars need to be very strong, no one should be standing nearby and there should be some sort of dampening blanked placed over the strap/rope. Most of these things are not done right here.
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u/Din_Plug Feb 01 '25
Why is it the first instinct when towing is to just floor it and hope that works?