HOW TO USE A RATCHET STRAP...

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we have a lot of new people getting into our sport and I get messages every day
from people asking questions about everything from trailers to how you load
your trailer tie-downs how do you use them what's the best way to do it so I
thought today I will cover real quick on how to use a ratchet strap that's
actually a question I get quite a bit because some people just aren't real
familiar with them and how they work so before they go out and get them and tie
down a new ATV or side by side they want to make sure they know how to do it so
fortunately for me Melissa had us go to Lowe's and grab some mulch here today
and we're gonna show you how to use a ratchet strap on our load of mulch that
we went and got so first of all this is your basic ratchet strap style right
here as you as you lift the handle it gets tighter and what you want to do is
make sure you have it straight you don't want to have this off to an angle and
start cranking you want to have this nice and straight as you crank now once
you get to where you're going there's no way you're gonna just grab a hold of
that strap and get it loose so this handle right here there's teeth in here
and you can see those teeth in there when I release that handle it releases
them from those teeth so as I open this up there's a cam in there and the cam is
gonna release this inside spring latch right here so then you have two of them
that you just loosened up and that's how you open it so I can show you real quick
how this works when your ratchet strap is shut everything is tight this
is tight it won't move inside there but when you release this right here and
then you can see right here see this is on the teeth as I keep coming around
coming around coming around BAM it opens that up so it pushes that away from the
teeth and that frees up this center piece here so I can pull it and it'll
spool free now one thing I see a lot when we're on the trail head
we'll be loading up ATVs and side-by-sides and this will happen and
some people will absolutely have a come apart because they aren't sure how to web
it back up to get it to strap up right because if you strap it up like this
from the inside you're doing it the wrong way
because if you come around like this
like that on the inside when you go to ratchet it you that's not the right way
because your straps on the inside so that's wrong you don't want to strap it
from the inside you want to make sure it's on the outside so the best way to
do that is to take your strap and if you want to move this slat around to where
you want to get to it just take it like that and you can see that slat really
easy so then you just take your strap and you run it through like that right
there and now you're good to go okay so that's that's how it works so you want
your strap to look like that and then what you want to do is you want to make
sure it's nice and straight no twists so that when you put it on your load
what you want to do then is you want to pull it as tight as you can you don't
want to start with your strap way out here and try and ratchet it you want to
take it make it as tight as you can like that and then you want to start
ratcheting so that way what you pull up in here keeps it nice and tight because
if you have too much in here and you have slack it's not going to do you any
good it won't tighten up and then something else that a lot of people
don't understand is if they have a strap and it gets all muddy and grody and it's
been outside in the weather and it's getting weathered all you have to do is
just take them maybe hit them with the power washer clean them up and then
maybe use some WD-40 on the mechanics there and get it to where it's working
real nice and easy again so there you go it's pretty easy to do practice makes
perfect all you got to do is get yourself a set
of straps these are smart straps I'm using right here they sell them
everywhere Walmart tractor supply Lowe's Home Depot these are for sale everywhere
so just pick yourself up some straps practice makes perfect that way when you
get out on the trail in front of your buddies you can show off a little bit
and be like oh yeah I got this
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HOW TO USE A RATCHET STRAP...

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