Grip Strut - Safety Grating for recovery?

[wallygatoresq]

I am looking for some kind of recovery boards and like metal better than plastic and am trying to find something that will work for me (primarily snow use in the winter) and found this looking for something else, Grip Strut - Safety Grating - I can't post links yet but you can look at the website for MetalsDepot and look for steel-safety-grating.

I can get 9-1/2" wide x 1-1/2 x 12GA Galvanized Steel in a three foot section for about $80 per section which seems like a pretty good deal.

Has anyone every used this or something similar? What are your thoughts on whether it will work or not? I won't be using it a lot, primarily helping other folks stuck in the snow and probably myself once in a while.

Travis

 

[WILLD420]

Metal kinks when bent. It's also heavier. I used to be a metal guy till we used ARB boards a few snow wheeling trips. Now I have plastic.

 

[systemdelete]

Have found no published info on it's failure but the working load for a span your length is only 481#, that said, you aren't using it as intended so I doubt you'll be spanning 36" with it. It's not engineered to be supported unevenly by the ground under it so all bets are off how it holds up being run over, especially if the "C" bent into the sides to give the tread rigidity over the span deflect and fold over in to one another over time.

You could try it for a season, but be ready to bin them if the first few test recoveries go south. I wouldn't take them on a long solo trek or be my only option for traction aids until I had tested them for their intended new use throughly.

(TLDR) We won't know until you (or someone else) tries it. :)

 

[wallygatoresq]

Thanks. I think that makes me a sucker or really smart.

Still trying to decide but if it gets any colder we will have snow soon so better make up my mind

 

[madcratebuilder]

If weight is not a factor then get some mil-surp PSP. Marston Mat, properly pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP)

 

[Corbet]

Metal is heavy and will rust. I’d stick with a commercially available option in what ever option suits your budget.