About RiggingOps

RiggingOps is an independent publisher covering off-road and overland vehicle recovery gear: ropes, straps, shackles, winches, traction boards, and the rigging techniques that use them safely. We built this site because most of what's published in this category is written by retailers, gear brands, or forum posts repeating numbers nobody checked. We don't sell recovery gear. We read the spec sheets, cite them, and tell you what they actually say.

Who Publishes This Site

Articles on RiggingOps are credited to RiggingOps Editorial, a brand byline, not an individual. We're explicit about that rather than inventing a name, a garage, or a truck we don't own. A fabricated author bio would undermine the exact trust this site depends on.

This is an interim policy, not a permanent one. Recovery rigging technique content is safety-critical, and it deserves review by a real, named, credentialed reviewer: someone like a licensed rigger or a certified off-road recovery instructor. Bringing that person on is an owned commitment with a deadline attached to it, not an open-ended someday: RiggingOps is targeting the start of our wave-2 content expansion to have a credentialed technical reviewer in place, and our safety-critical technique pages will get that person's review first once they're engaged. Until then, the brand byline plus the transparency on this page and our methodology page carry that load.

How We Stay Independent

RiggingOps doesn't sell recovery gear, doesn't take sponsorships, and has no financial relationship with any gear brand. The site is funded by Amazon Associates commissions on some product links and, eventually, display advertising. Neither is allowed to touch our rankings. The team that writes and edits picks doesn't see commission data by product, and a cheaper option that's the better pick gets recommended as the better pick, full stop. Our full evaluation criteria are on the methodology page.

How We Use AI in Our Research

RiggingOps uses AI-assisted tools as part of our research and drafting process: pulling and organizing manufacturer spec data, drafting initial copy, and checking our own work against our editorial standards. Every published number is checked against an actual manufacturer source before it runs, and every draft passes a human editorial review before publication. We disclose this plainly because readers deserve to know how content gets made, not because AI assistance is something to hide or something that replaces editorial judgment on this site.

Corrections Policy

Manufacturers update specs, discontinue products, and occasionally publish numbers that don't hold up. When we get something wrong, whether it's a rating, a comparison, or a claim, we fix it and note when the page was last updated. If you find a load rating or spec on this site that doesn't match what a manufacturer currently publishes, we want to hear about it. See Contact for how to report a spec error; we treat those reports as a priority, not a suggestion box.

Questions

Reach us through the contact page. For how we evaluate and rank gear, read the review methodology. For how affiliate links work on this site, read the affiliate disclosure.