Owl Recovery Kit- thoughts?

[MileHigh]

Overland Van Recovery Kit

Built for serious off-road travel, the Owl Recovery Kit includes leather gloves, a kinetic rope, a tree saver, a HMPE bridle, soft shackles, hitch mounted recovery point with pin, and X-Lock — all packed into a modular molle rollup bag. Every component is selected to work with the weight and...

owlvans.com

Saw a video. What do you guys think? Paying a lot for an Owl Bag and bits?

 

[anand]

Buying stuff from Factor55 and other big names, not finding anything on sale, and everything being load rated at least as high as the Owl stuff is, my calculations bring the total cost of product to $844. Plus the bag.

Buy it all as a kit from a recovery gear manufacturer or reputable shop and that price would probably be ~$850 with a bag.

It also shows 4 shackles in the photo, but in more than one place in the description points it out as a singular soft shackle.

Putting on my work-hat I'd say that more important than buying a kit like that (which is technically designed for vans, not the Grenadier) would be training to know how to use the equipment, such as the kinetic rope (which is oversized for the Grenadier's weight) and the X-Lock.

I feel like the kit has some glaring omissions, such as not having any screw pin bow shackles; sure, remove the steel where you can, but there are more than a few instances when you just can't avoid sharp edges on a recovery point or pulley block and are going to need one; the X-Lock has a lot of uses, but also take a lot of practice and some good training to be able to use it at all (unless you're used to similar devices in the climbing world), it is especially useful when you incorporate a winch extension, which the kit doesn't include; the 10' tree saver works well for a lot of stuff out West, but if you're wheeling on the east coast, you may not have (or want) that much extra distance off the tree (additionally an 8' tree saver works really well to wrap around the backside of a tire and use a Hi-Lift to jack from; the 10' is too long unless you're running 37s); also odd that it doesn't include a pulley block but has some winching related parts.

TL;DR - Yes it's overpriced but they'll probably sell tons of them because it has their logo on it