Factor 55 Blog

For those of you that are curious as to whether the addition of a Rope Guard product will add any overall strength to a FlatLink E winch shackle mount, well we tested this and there is an approximate gain in strength of 2-3000 pounds. At 42,000 pounds, the breaking strength of the FlatLink E is already overkill for winches up to 16K capacities, but for the curious, the breaking strength will approach 45,000 pounds when equipped with a riveted on Rope Guard. Compare this to a common steel hook average breaking strength in the 18-22K range and you can see...

Is laboratory destructive testing of vehicle recovery products important? We think it is and openly share our test results with the public. It’s how we built our highly engineered brand over 9 years ago and we continue this practice today. Although Finite Element Analysis can oftentimes get close to predicting the structural behavior of a product, especially getting close to the ultimate breaking strength, the yield point (plastic deformation – permanent distortion) of materials is a bit harder to predict. When we test our products, we measure critical dimensions prior to applying loads and remeasure these points after each test...

FACTOR 55 Equipped Racers Podium in All 5 ClassesIncluding 3 First Place Wins! 2019 King of the Hammers | 4400 Class 2nd Place- Erik Miller 2019 EMC | 4500 Class1st Place- Jimmy Jack 2019 EMC | 4800 Class1st Place- Casey Gilbert 2019 EMC | 4600 Class3rd Place- Josh Attebury2019 UTV King of the Hammers | UTV Class 1st Place- Mitch Guthrie JRThanks to everyone who stopped by the Factor 55 booth at the 2019 running of the King of the Hammers race, and congratulations to all of the racers that participated all week long. Factor 55 was represented on the podium for all 5 race classes, even...

Many of you have inquired about our destructive testing session from last week. Our product development process includes the testing of several design prototypes and small design iterations before we release a product to the public. One of our test challenges is to devise a method to attach to our products so that we can pull a load that does not break the attachment hardware and allows us to gather the Factor 55 product data instead. We prefer to use USA Crosby shackles and in some cases, the ultra strong shackles made by Skookum (9 ton WLL on a ¾ shackle –...