i liked my masdam with a strap- good for hauling logs out of the bush and one man gin poles- until... was using it to pull the top off of a big poplar in some ski trail building, no success, strap is now up the tree- figure we'll come back for it with the excavator when we're building the trail bed- then return and some crazy sociopath has climbed this dangerous tree with the top dangling down and stolen my comealong out of the bush!!11 who steals tools out of the bush?

anyways, i'm now back to a cable kind. liked the masdam better. nicked the strap at one point but just cut it back and tied it onto the hook and was working again.