Nothing is stronger. Nothing is safer.

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• Nothing is stronger. Nothing is safer.
• Product Presentation
• CUFF May 2009 Quebec City

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Agenda

• Vehicle Recovery Overview
• Ditch Hitch Key Benefits
• Product Due Diligence
• Vehicle Recovery Today
• Customers
• Video

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Vehicle Recovery Overview

• Until now...
• Used chains, tow ropes with hooks, slings with
  tail chains, rope, wire rope, ...
• Attached to trailer balls, tie down hooks,
  shackles, clevises, pintle hitches, bumpers,...
• These products were never intended to withstand
  forces involved with vehicle recovery

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Vehicle Recovery Overview

• Other products designed for applications such as
  hoisting, winching, tongue loads
• Cannot be shock loaded or side loaded
• Frame mounted hooks never intended for vehicle
  recovery
• Become dangerous metal projectiles
• Cause of accidents, equipment damage and even
  fatalities...

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Vehicle Recovery Overview

• Many vehicle recovery stories...
• Trailer Balls Chains Shackles

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Vehicle Recovery Overview

• Companies banned use of hazardous towing
  equipment
• Implemented No Tow policies or instructed to
  call a tow truck
• However...not practical in remote situations
• Can be expensive frustrating down time

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• key benefits

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Ditch Hitch Key Benefits

• Strength
• Strength tested at 69,000 lbs, stamp-rated at
  14,000 lbs with safety margin of 51
• Designed to withstand shock loads
• Solid aluminum corrosion resistant
• Total weight - 7.5 lbs

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Ditch Hitch Key Benefits

• Design
• Fits standard 2x2 frame-mounted receivers
• Patented swiveling U-Bar turns with the pull in
  difficult situations
• Eliminates side-loading and reduces strap wear
• High tensile corrosion treated pins

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Ditch Hitch Key Benefits

• Recovery System
• Practical, safe and easy to use
• Used in conjunction with synthetic recovery
  straps
• Eliminates need to attach to trailer balls,
  towing add-ons, hooks, bumpers
• Eliminates use of chains, slings with tail
  chains, shackles, tow ropes with hooks

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Ditch Hitch Due Diligence

• Field and laboratory tested
• Certified by Prof. Engineer supersedes CSA
• 51 safety factor exceeds industry standard
• Vehicle receivers recovery straps strength
  tested in partnership with Atco Electric

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Ditch Hitch Due Diligence

• Recovery strap is weakest link
• 2 Fuse-Link or 3 recovery straps available
• Recommend Ditch Hitch on both pulling and stuck
  vehicles super complete kit
• Safe vehicle recovery precautions printed on
  every Carry Bag
• The only product on market designed specifically
  for vehicle recovery

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Vehicle Recovery Today

• Lifting No Tow policies when using Ditch Hitch
• Ditch Hitch Kits considered standard safety
  equipment on trucks like a spare tire and jack
• Industry benchmark for vehicle recovery
• Nothing is stronger. Nothing is safer.

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• Customer Feedback

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Customer Comments

• We have been providing the Ditch Hitch to our
  field operations and have received excellent
  feedback from those who have used them. The ditch
  hitch provides a safe, simple and effective way
  for connecting a tow strap to the vehicle.
• British Petroleum
• We now carry the Ditch Hitch in all our Peace
  Country Business unit vehicles, and with the
  addition of a specific procedure on where, when
  and how the Ditch Hitch is to be used we have all
  but eliminated "Towing Related" incidents.
• Encana
• The Ditch Hitch is safe, lightweight, user
  friendly and in my opinion, the best towing
  solution available today. Thanks for a great
  product.
• Husky Energy
• The Ditch Hitch is truly by far the safest
  recovery system that I have seen to date. The
  safety features and ratings you have engineered
  into this product are exceptional and I would
  recommend this product to anyone who would ever
  require to be towed.
• Nexen

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Ditch Hitch Customers

• Alliance Pipeline
• Apache Canada
• Atco Electric
• Atco Pipelines
• Big Eagle Hydro-Vac
• British Petroleum
• Burlington Resources
• Canadian Natural Resources
• Champion Technologies
• Conoco Phillips
• Devon Canada
• Enbridge Pipelines
• Encana
• Exxon Mobil
• Harvest Energy
• High Pine Oil Gas
• Hunt Oil
• Husky Energy

• Keyera Energy
• Manitoba Hydro
• Nexen Canada
• Pearl Exploration
• Pembina Pipelines
• Penn West Energy Trust
• Petro Canada
• Pioneer Natural Resources
• Quick Silver Resources
• Stoneham Drilling
• Suncor Energy
• Talisman Energy
• Terra Core Drilling
• Thompson Bros. Construction
• Veritas Geophysical
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• And Many Others

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• Thank you!
• Merci!