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

[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

[WmRMeyers]

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

Rick

Since I'm not interested in punishment, I'll leave the rest of this thread to you guys. I normally use cheap ziplock bags, except when they get taken off a load and thrown in a bucket. Then I get to spend a few quiet (not really) hours untangling them again. I use the square cat litter tubs to hold the bagged tie downs. They can rid the in the back of the pickup, or in the cab if I'm not hauling passengers in it. Like the idea bungeeing the loose ends. I've found some miniature bungee cords at Walmart, among other places. Harbor Freight, too: https://www.harborfreight.com/set-of...rds-93672.html

Bill