Storing Ratchet Straps for Quick Deployment

[rgsparber]

Warning: This is a REALLY trivial "homemade tool."

Showing up to rig a load with a tangle of ratchet straps makes you no friends. For the longest time, I would wrap up each strap and secure it with 3M Painter's tape. This works fairly well. The tape gently kept each strap coiled up yet a light tug and the tape would fall away. Sometimes the tape would fall away even without that light tug. Not good. Of course, the tape goes in the trash.

I just figured out a better way that is free and reusable.

If you are interested, please see
https://rick.sparber.org/RatchetStrapStorageBands.pdf

Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.


Thanks,

Rick

[DIYer]

Thanks rgsparber! We've added your Ratchet Strap Storage Bands to our Storage and Organization category,
as well as to your builder page: rgsparber's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Ratchet Strap Storage Bands by rgsparber

tags: storage

[rgsparber]

Hey Marv,

I put a pun in this article just for you. Did you see it?

Rick

[mklotz]

Hey Marv,

I put a pun in this article just for you. Did you see it?

Rick

I saw the footnote but I must be extra dense this morning (not a new thing at my age). I'm afraid that I need an explanation.

[rgsparber]

I saw the footnote but I must be extra dense this morning (not a new thing at my age). I'm afraid that I need an explanation.

Marv,

OK, I know it is a real stretch (oops, another bad pun), but I wrote:

"On what must sound like an unrelated tangent, I was putting on my socks this morning and my heel tore through."

The force that tore my sock was tangential.

Rick

[mklotz]

Marv,

OK, I know it is a real stretch (oops, another bad pun), but I wrote:

"On what must sound like an unrelated tangent, I was putting on my socks this morning and my heel tore through."

The force that tore my sock was tangential.

Rick

That was so bad I'm going to drive over there and give you a good sock.

[rgsparber]

That was so bad I'm going to drive over there and give you a good sock.

Sock it to me?

[mklotz]

You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

--
*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill

[rgsparber]

You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

--
*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill

If you are going to ridicule golf, there is no better than Robin Williams.

Rick

[rgsparber]

You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

--
*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill

If you are going to ridicule golf, there is no better than Robin Williams.

Rick