TrailSmart helps enthusiasts, clubs, recovery teams, and emergency or public-service workers build recovery judgment through a readiness path, planning estimates, a kinetic go/no-go review, scenario practice, concise team briefs, and after-action learning.
Learn the six-decision recovery loop, choose a role, complete the prerequisite path, build a team brief, and save after-action learning.
Use planning estimates to explore pull force, equipment needs, and mechanical advantage. The estimates do not authorize a recovery.
Practice realistic recovery situations and review the recommended sequence of actions.
This is the most detailed calculator. It walks through a recovery in steps:
Use this to estimate whether a manual hand winch is realistic for the situation. It helps estimate required pull force, pulley count, rope length, and how much handle work a recovery may take.
This is especially useful for understanding when a come-along is reasonable and when the job is beyond manual recovery.
TrailSmart does not calculate a universal dynamic-recovery speed. Confirm the specific product instructions, compatible vehicles, rated dynamic points, stability, communications, exclusion controls, and a lower-energy alternative.
An incomplete control produces a no-go result. A complete checklist is still a planning gate, not authorization.
The scenario library presents recovery situations with choices. These are designed to help users think through:
Use Export to save your current state and scenario progress to a JSON file. Use Import to load a previously saved file back into the app.
This is useful if you want to save example setups, continue later, or share a configuration.