Factor 55 Blog

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...

TBT to synthetic rope breakage. MYTH: Synthetic winch rope falls to the ground when it breaks. Well, the truth is, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. This video was sent to us from our friend and GenRight Off Road Ambassador Jeff Perkins. In this particular case, the synthetic winch rope broke suddenly without warning and the recoil was significant. Sure, there is less energy stored when compared to a steel cable, but you still would not want get hit with this rope. The mode of synthetic winch rope failure is uncertain. At times it can fail by sequential strand failures. In a...