Glad yo hear your OK, it could have been ALOT worse. I remember hearing dad tell a story years ago about watching two D8 CATs trying to pull another out of the edge of the river where it backed in to far and had gotten stuck. Don't remember what size cable he said they were using but he said it broke and took down a tree that was as big as a man's leg just like a weedeater string going through a piece of grass.
Watch offroaders sometimes when they are winching themselves out of a mess. Often they will put the hood up to keep the cable from coming into the cab with them should it decide to break.
I watched alot of safety movies when in the navy where they showed some of the BIG mooring lines snap. Being made of a nylon (?) material with alot of give/stretch, they would get pulled as tight as a rubber band before snapping. When they did they would take out pretty much anything in their path.
Like another post suggested when pulling with a chain, cable, strap, or whatever, it does help to drap something over the line about half way to help eleminate alot of the recoil should it ever break under tension.
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