Front tow strap
 

I've seen somebody with a short strap with tow hooks that attached both the front tow hooks together so you can connect one strap to the middle. Does anybody know where I could find a strap like that?

try like whelen, or B/A straps, just look em up on google

Best straps I found are cheep, just gotta able to get your hands on em. Fab yards are always cutting straps when they go bad per OSHA standards, they are good for towing, if you put 5 tons on a tow strap them dag gum. One popped thread and we have to cut em, loose a tag, you guessed it, cut it. They are looped on both ends, so all you need is a shackle or two. These are a little harder to come by as they don't bend out shape that fast. But lowes(small ones) and tractor supply stores carry em. Got a 5' one with 2 shackles for my 4wheeler, haven't been lucky enough to get a nice 10-15' one for my truck yet. they cut em to fast.

Sometimes they will work with you sometimes they won't. Where I am at now, I can't say. But where I was as long as it was off the yard outta service, they didn't care. Some placed have found ex employees selling bad straps. They don't let them go any more.

I asked one of my bodies and he called it a bridal strap

These straps are used for rigging and lifting with cranes, chain-falls, come-a-longs, etc. I have several of them in several different lengths. I work in a chemical plant along the Houston Ship Channel and they are quite common around here. Your buddy is right, the little short one is a bridal strap and the longer ones are choker straps. I use a little short bridal strap to loop around both of my front tow hooks to evenly distribute the load between both tow hooks, instead of putting all of the load on one and breaking it. Believe it or not, balancing the load like that makes it easier on the recovery vehicle as well as the vehicle being recovered also.

Surely you have a crane and rigging supply near you somewhere. They will be extremely pricey if they are new and up to code for OSHA lifting laws though. Try to find you a used one that has been thrown out. OSHA requires them to be destroyed for slightest little defects, such as missing load rating tags, but often times don't exactly get destroyed....they go home with someone. ;)

If you know of a place to buy a new one I would love to know where. I only plan on having one since it would be pretty tough to break a bridle it seems, I wouldn't mind buying 1 new if need be

I live in a fairly large mining community and these 40k lb straps and logging/ dozers chains are easy to come by. Drive about 5 miles up to the mining shop and a 40k chain or straps are everywheres. If you can't find any, let me know. I could possible get you one and ship it for cheaper than you buying it somewheres else.

Ya man if you could find me a bridle strap up there that would be awesome. Where abouts do you live?

I live in Southern VA. I will be traveling down to the Tampa area next month. Are you anywheres around that area?

West palm beach, its on the opposite coast of florida