Factor 55 Blog — 2023-10

We have received many requests about the ability to customize the Rope Guards on our line of foldable winch line shackle mounts like The FlatLink, FlatLink E, UltraHook, etc. Watch the video from our friend @im_just_jon_ and @mt_t4r , shot and edited by @basicbrando , to see just how easy it is to customize your Rope Guard! Every Rope Guard comes with an additional sticker inside the instructions. This will allow you to custom finish your Rope Guard and still maintain an OEM look. Have a custom color on your build? This is the perfect way to accent it. As...

Did you know that Factor 55 supplies much higher rated hard and soft rigging to our industrial/commercial customers? Soft shackles with a minimum breaking strength of 294,000 pounds, or kinetic ropes with breaking strengths exceeding 200,000 pounds. Similar to our products for the truck and SUV market, each piece of rigging is Made In The USA and marked with individual serial numbers for lot traceability and build date. Each soft rigging unit is also treated with Fiberlock, a Military and Safety industrial polymer. Check out Zac and Justin holding a typical truck/suv product opposite to our industrial line.Factor 55 – Engineered,...

Special thanks to U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jarrod Bunker for arranging a Closed System Winching™ training session with the National Guard’s 101st WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team). These specialized men and women of our Armed Forces (Army/Airforce) are trained to respond to any type of chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear incident – think terrorist hot zones like bomb making chemicals and materials etc.. Factor 55 was invited to explain the Closed System Winching™ technique to the group. All of their vehicles are equipped with recovery winches with capacities ranging from 16.5K to the smaller UTV 3.5K winches. After...

Barlow Adventures “Why we keep hands away from fairleads during winching. Even a fairlead and FlatLink as sweet as @factor55llc can grab a finger in an instant. We recommend staying more than an arm’s length away to avoid a momentary slip-up. By the way, this is the first hawse fairlead EVER that I find acceptable. And not just acceptable-outstanding. It has NOT chewed up my winch rope on less-than-straight pulls due to a large radius and the quality and industry-leading Type III anodized surface on 6000 series aluminum. And it looks great after over a year and 17,000 Nena miles.”#safewinching...