Loading an ERA on a rollback

[Bobcat]

Well ... it finally happened . Coming back from a cruise in this afternoon , the car just shut off . Pulled to the side of the road and saw smoke coming from under the hood . Looked and it was electrical .... seems like the starter cable is partially melted . I`ll find out tomorrow exactly what happened .
Used my AAA Gold card ... if you don`t have one ... get one ! When the rollback came , we had a problem as the chains would hit the front bodywork and the straps would do the same . After much looking , and head scratching , the front quick jacks jumped out at me . Looked at them and figured that since everything would be in tension and there were two 7/16" bolts per side and the mount was pretty solid , we would try them . Ran a strap behind each quick jack and then attached the chain to the straps , put some boards down to clear the bed and SLOWLY started the winch .
Long story short ... the quick jacks in tension worked great for loading the car and also for unloading . The tow-truck operator and I both agree , we don`t want to try this on a car that is stuck or over an embankment .
I guess Bob will now chime in and say I did WHAT ??? And someone else will say I exceeded the tensile strength of the bolts by 3,000% .
Anyway , the car is home and looks like an electrical problem somewhere as I have no power to anything .