The MAXTRAX Winch Ring 120 is a 120mm (about 4.7 in) recovery ring machined from 6061 billet aluminium, with a 12,500 kg (27,557 lb) working load limit and a destructive break load tested to 62,508 kg (137,806 lb). It weighs 620g, so it rides in a recovery bag without adding the bulk of a steel snatch block. The body is polished, brushed, and anodised for corrosion protection.
Loop a soft shackle through the ring, anchor it to a tree-trunk protector or recovery point, and you can do two things a straight winch pull can't. Redirect the line around an off-angle anchor to pull a stuck rig straight, or run a double-line pull to roughly double your effective pulling power. There are no moving parts to jam, freeze, or rust. The trade-off is friction: synthetic rope slides over the ring instead of rolling on a sheave, so a double-line pull moves at about half line speed.
This is synthetic-line gear only. Use it with soft shackles and synthetic winch rope, never steel cable, which would gouge the ring. MAXTRAX designs, engineers, and tests the ring in Australia, and x-rays each one for internal inclusions before it ships.
