Thirty plus years of using ratchet straps stored in bags, boxes and always a big ol'jumbled up mess, Especially if there are multiple straps! Looks professional, clean and neat. Save me a mess of time. I owe you one! Thanks again!
I just went down to the basement to try it out. It took close to 10 minutes to untangle and separate one large ratchet strap. Another 10 minutes to step through your video and do the first one. Works great! Have to adjust a little for different strap lengths, but this is now a new standard procedure for me! Thanks!
Best technique! I retired from the Army where I served as a Blackhawk mechanic and crew chief. We always use ratchet straps to secure loads to the cabin floor. I was shown this wrap maybe 15 years ago and I have taught everyone willing to learn how to maintain and store their straps so they'll be ready to use and remain in serviceable condition. Great demonstration and explanation! Thanks for sharing!
How absolutely delicious. The deutch are so very clever, do you not think? Thank you for your quality video . And you are appreciated and I approve of this
Love this for the storage aspect, but 2 things I don't like about it: you have to put it in the ratchet backwards - loose end comes out on the bottom - this is a problem if you're strapping an item with a flat surface - loose end is trapped under the ratchet. The other thing is that it takes FOREVER to roll back up. If you have say 8 of the large straps like used on a semi, you are talking a good half hour to roll them back up. I just roll them up around my hand to my elbow, fold them in half and put a little bungie toggle strap on them - takes about 10 seconds.
Naw man you can do it the right way. I been doin it with the hooks on the right side for yrs. Just have to have a lil bit more slack to reach around is all
What can I say!! Pure genius!! Thank you for sharing this with us. I will never toss another strap in the drawer without storing this way again. Beautiful picture quality. Thanks again Simeon.
Awesome Vid!!!! Thank you for making this video I have struggled for years on how to keep my ratchet straps stored in a neat and usable way. I am disabled and have a hard time with my hands and I struggle to get up off the floor because of my legs and back problems and it never fails that when I need to use a strap I end up sitting on the ground trying to untangle my straps and getting knots out of the strap before I can use it. I have tried making racks that I can hang them from which works well but it takes up precious wall space in my garage, plus that is useless when I am not home and digging for a strap out of the tool bin in my pickup truck. As soon as I get done typing here I am headed out to my garage and I am going to apply your method of strap storage to every ratchet strap I own and I am going to rip that rack off the garage wall and reclaim 6 foot of wall space that is badly needed for storage of other things. Please if you have any other tricks and tips for storing tools and other household items usually stored in a garage or shed please make a video sharing them with us. This video is the most useful tip you have shared to date for me, I use ratchet straps all the time I have hated them from the beginning but they are something I have to have and use almost daily and you just solved my reason for hating them! THANK YOU!
can't you just store this crap on a stupid ass nail and not make a big deal about how to store it? Why throw this crap on the floor ( oh wait, unless it's just like dog shit), yeah the floor is where it belongs.
Nice. Remember it takes 2.5 wraps around the spool for proper grip. The ratchet strap tightens by griping the strap against itself. If you get 1 or even a 1/2 wrap, it can slip.
Yep. Too often people tug the strap tight and then do a ratchet or two. Pull the strap tight and then pull back out about a foot of strap, then ratchet.
Simeon, here is another tip for people using ratchet straps. In Sweden, most of the freight trucks are enclosed with sides that slide back accordion style so you don't see how they strap down their loads. In the US we use a lot of open, flatbed trailers. When throwing your straps over your load, it is always a good idea to put a half or full twist in the strap before you hook it to the frame. If you leave them flat, the air rushing over the straps causes them to vibrate at a high frequency and if the strap is going over a sharp edge, the vibration can actually cut through or at least damage the strap. Putting the twist in it breaks up the airflow and the strap doesn't 'sing.' You do this on both sides of your load.
This is actually very great advice. I pulled flats and step-decks for many many years. An old time taught me this little trick and it made all the difference in the world. No more flapping straps and no more torn straps.
here is another way... I take a milk crate or a 5 gallon bucket, take the strap apart, put the ratchet end (short end) in the same position you just did and drop it in the crate and hang the hook on the side. put the other piece in the crate and hang the hook on the side. the long part never knots up or tangles with the other straps. I keep several straps in my crate and then put it in my tool box on the back of the truck.
Or, after untieing a load leave them on passenger side floor, wife finds them, rolls them up, puts a tie around it and off they go back into the back seat bin.
One tip to make this method even better, mark the strap where you need it to stop when putting it through the ratchet and mark which side has the hook so that you do not need to run the strap through your hand to make sure you have it the correct way. Thanks for the video.
That's a great tip Simeon, my ratchet straps are always tangled together in a stuff sack, not any more, well not once I sort them tomorrow :-) I'm curious about the other tips you have to share, should be good.
I have to throw the hook over my load, most of the time. I don't want to damage the ratchet by throwing It over and hitting the truck side or the ground. I almost always take it apart and toss the hook over while holding the strap. As a truck driver for many years We kept the straps and ratchets separate. It's ok for small straps not the bigger ones.
So do I, but I'm still going to use this storage method. When you need to throw the strap over the load all you need to do is hook the ratchet to your tie down rail and pull out a few metres of strap so you can throw the loose end over.
Never throw the buckle as it can do damage or hurt person on other side of truck. Hook buckle on then throw strap no damage and less chase of injuring person on opposite side of of load where you may not see a person. Still a cool way to store strap if not having to throw over a load.
Only one issue I see with this method and that is the tail of your ratchet strap would be on the underside of your cinched load. I prefer to have the tail on the topside to pull tight then ratchet tightly so that the tail feeds square into the ratchet and not bind. Nice vid though..
i always just throw the straps in the back of the truck, one of my helpers with nothing to do one day took all of the straps and rolled them up nice and neat, some one stole them within the hour. So now I just throw them in the bed, to much trouble to steal them now.
A foreman I had, had the same theory about rolling up electrical chords. He'd say if they wanna steal em they can roll em up so we just left them laying out on the job. Never lost one
I keep most of my straps in my truck cab in the door pockets, But I keep 2 of them in my bed hooked to the side mounts and tight, They can steal them if they want but they would have to undo them, Uncross them, And then take them, And hope to god I don't see them because that's a pretty petty thing to lose all your teeth over.
Jut noticed your video. Two words,WOW, THANK-YOU,. You should see my ratchet box, very disorganised, takes me a while to find the right ratchet and it's partner, no more, Thanks to you! Again Wow & thank-you.
Thirty plus years of using ratchet straps stored in bags, boxes and always a big ol'jumbled up mess, Especially if there are multiple straps! Looks professional, clean and neat. Save me a mess of time. I owe you one! Thanks again!
Nice! Thank you!
This is the only video where I've gone straight out into the shed and tried what has been shown. Works brilliant, excellent idea.
agreed! same
Ok, that's amazing. Thank you for sharing!
I just went down to the basement to try it out. It took close to 10 minutes to untangle and separate one large ratchet strap. Another 10 minutes to step through your video and do the first one. Works great! Have to adjust a little for different strap lengths, but this is now a new standard procedure for me! Thanks!
The few minutes spent watching this will be repaid ten times over in time saved using and stowing straps.
Excellent video!
Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely genius!
Best technique! I retired from the Army where I served as a Blackhawk mechanic and crew chief. We always use ratchet straps to secure loads to the cabin floor. I was shown this wrap maybe 15 years ago and I have taught everyone willing to learn how to maintain and store their straps so they'll be ready to use and remain in serviceable condition.
Great demonstration and explanation! Thanks for sharing!
How absolutely delicious. The deutch are so very clever, do you not think? Thank you for your quality video . And you are appreciated and I approve of this
That is pure genius! Thank you. I have rolled, wrapped, tied, and bound my straps every way possible... until now.
Great idea. I've been rolling my smaller straps up and putting them in individual zip lock bags and that has work out well.
Thank you. Great technique. I'll be using this from now on.
Love this for the storage aspect, but 2 things I don't like about it: you have to put it in the ratchet backwards - loose end comes out on the bottom - this is a problem if you're strapping an item with a flat surface - loose end is trapped under the ratchet. The other thing is that it takes FOREVER to roll back up. If you have say 8 of the large straps like used on a semi, you are talking a good half hour to roll them back up. I just roll them up around my hand to my elbow, fold them in half and put a little bungie toggle strap on them - takes about 10 seconds.
Naw man you can do it the right way. I been doin it with the hooks on the right side for yrs. Just have to have a lil bit more slack to reach around is all
Great video ..thanks for translating that to English for us!!!
I can't get over how much clearer and colorful your new equipment makes your films! It even makes you look thinner, too!
Pam Murphy
haha ;)
but good point!
So his camera subtracts 10 pounds?
Pam Murphy,
Fat shaming, not cool bro.
Thats a cool idea !!!!!!
I use these straps everyday to hold down netting in the Shaw for the Saul move. They always end up getting stored funny. Can’t wait to try this.
Great idea, nice and easy, thank you.
What can I say!! Pure genius!! Thank you for sharing this with us. I will never toss another strap in the drawer without storing this way again. Beautiful picture quality. Thanks again Simeon.
Great advise! Great video 👍🏼
Awesome! Thank you. Finally, a video where I actually learned something useful.
Nice tip, thanks!
Good tip. I use Harbor Freight ratchet straps. I throw them away after one use, not really but sometimes I want to.
Their free flashlights make decent paperweights
Great tip. I've tried a few different methods and this one is the best.
Awesome Vid!!!!
Thank you for making this video I have struggled for years on how to keep my ratchet straps stored in a neat and usable way. I am disabled and have a hard time with my hands and I struggle to get up off the floor because of my legs and back problems and it never fails that when I need to use a strap I end up sitting on the ground trying to untangle my straps and getting knots out of the strap before I can use it. I have tried making racks that I can hang them from which works well but it takes up precious wall space in my garage, plus that is useless when I am not home and digging for a strap out of the tool bin in my pickup truck.
As soon as I get done typing here I am headed out to my garage and I am going to apply your method of strap storage to every ratchet strap I own and I am going to rip that rack off the garage wall and reclaim 6 foot of wall space that is badly needed for storage of other things. Please if you have any other tricks and tips for storing tools and other household items usually stored in a garage or shed please make a video sharing them with us. This video is the most useful tip you have shared to date for me, I use ratchet straps all the time I have hated them from the beginning but they are something I have to have and use almost daily and you just solved my reason for hating them! THANK YOU!
They are hiding it and freezing it and shit
can't you just store this crap on a stupid ass nail and not make a big deal about how to store it? Why throw this crap on the floor ( oh wait, unless it's just like dog shit), yeah the floor is where it belongs.
Awsome video. Thank you. Im going to use this video to practice.
Well, that's a lot better than the way I do it now....all balled up in one big knot! lol
You grab one you grab them all!
Cory Goings
How many hooks can one strap have?!?
Colin
One big ball?
I will have to try that.
My method ends up in a big tangled mess!
lol one big knot made up of a whole buncha lil ones
Like the Griswold Christmas Lights knot-ball.
Superb idea 👍
great trick! thanks for sharing!
Thanks. That is a great lesson.
In all the years I've been using ratchet straps, it never occurred to me to wrap it this way. Thank you Simeon!!
i use a bungee cord strap it like that
Use duct tape
Brilliant! Thanks for the video!
Nice one Simeon
very nice, smart thinking, thanks for sharing.
So many people use ratchet straps incorrectly. Good to see someone using their brain. Great video!
Brilliant... thanks for sharing
Nice. Remember it takes 2.5 wraps around the spool for proper grip. The ratchet strap tightens by griping the strap against itself. If you get 1 or even a 1/2 wrap, it can slip.
Thanks for the info
Yep. Too often people tug the strap tight and then do a ratchet or two. Pull the strap tight and then pull back out about a foot of strap, then ratchet.
Very Nice solution.
Dont second guess yourself it's a brilliant way of storage and use no matter the circumstance. PARTY ON!
That is really helpful mate. Many thanks.
This is pretty cool, I'm going to try it!! Thanks for sharing
Proper job mate🇦🇺🦘👍🏼
awesome idea! thanks 😃
You are the man!! Really helpful bud. Are those suspenders ratchet strap? JJ TY
Very nice! Thank you for your videos.
1:36 "It is important that you go from the top" To me, you're threading the long strap backwards making it more difficult to use the strap
Thank you. Yep you are so right. Almost impossible to use this way for tying loads down.
LIFE CHANGER THANK YOU!!
Great tip! Thanks!
Awesome idea for straps
Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try this with my pile of ratchet straps. Greetings from Ireland!
Ingenious!!!! Many thanks!
Thats pretty cool, I have lots of those straps but mine are in a big pile on the floor in the barn.
Joe Nadeau I know this doesn't work in all situations but in your case in a barn you could just hang them
fantastic video keep them coming
I will be trying this tomorrow.
Cool idea, helped me clean up my truck
So why is it called the triple R?
asdfasdfasdf because it’s Really Really Rsimple
Good tip! Adding another 👍
Stay well, Joe Z
I'll keep using velcro straps to store them so I can wrap the excess strap when in use.
Great method, great video!
Simeon, here is another tip for people using ratchet straps. In Sweden, most of the freight trucks are enclosed with sides that slide back accordion style so you don't see how they strap down their loads. In the US we use a lot of open, flatbed trailers. When throwing your straps over your load, it is always a good idea to put a half or full twist in the strap before you hook it to the frame. If you leave them flat, the air rushing over the straps causes them to vibrate at a high frequency and if the strap is going over a sharp edge, the vibration can actually cut through or at least damage the strap. Putting the twist in it breaks up the airflow and the strap doesn't 'sing.' You do this on both sides of your load.
This is also why some smoke stacks and towers have helical strakes attached: they shed vortexes without resonating.
Mark Fritch does it pass inspection that way?
put a twist in the strap that holds the Awning on a trailer. Stops the vibration.
whatfreedom7 it passes inspection in the u.s. with the half or full twist. Makes straps last a lot longer also
This is actually very great advice. I pulled flats and step-decks for many many years.
An old time taught me this little trick and it made all the difference in the world. No more flapping straps and no more torn straps.
Awesome stuff 👍
here is another way... I take a milk crate or a 5 gallon bucket, take the strap apart, put the ratchet end (short end) in the same position you just did and drop it in the crate and hang the hook on the side. put the other piece in the crate and hang the hook on the side. the long part never knots up or tangles with the other straps. I keep several straps in my crate and then put it in my tool box on the back of the truck.
Or, after untieing a load leave them on passenger side floor, wife finds them, rolls them up, puts a tie around it and off they go back into the back seat bin.
Awesome! Thank you so much
Why didnt anyone tell me about this trick twenty years ago, this is the stuff they need to teach in schools
lol
Jeison Blade
Right.
I guarantee you, someone who didn't "go to school" figured this out.
Concernedcitizen11223 Na has like an angry man that you don’t have
Concernedcitizen11223 Na has to take some less lukoj
sweet method. Thanks for showing it
One tip to make this method even better, mark the strap where you need it to stop when putting it through the ratchet and mark which side has the hook so that you do not need to run the strap through your hand to make sure you have it the correct way. Thanks for the video.
CLureCo The only thing is do not buy ones with black straps. Its difficult to find a white sharpie.
Cheyenne Souza
That's what white paint markers are for.
Silver sharpies are common, I have them around for marking on dark thing such as this
alwcurlz z
@@cheyennesouza7960 just cut a little notch one the one side. LOL
Very helpful. Thank you
That's a great tip Simeon, my ratchet straps are always tangled together in a stuff sack, not any more, well not once I sort them tomorrow :-)
I'm curious about the other tips you have to share, should be good.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing !
Nah, I just throw them in a box when finished, and use this valuable time to have a beer while trolling on RUclips. My life is awesome!
Haha... brilliant.
Guess my life is awesome too👊😎
Mark Mark
Savage
Yea I do the ...ill fuck with it later method
someone has been watching my "useful tips" vids
🤣
Great idea. Thanks
Love it!
that is a great way to store ratchet straps, thanks for sharing.
I have to throw the hook over my load, most of the time. I don't want to damage the ratchet by throwing It over and hitting the truck side or the ground. I almost always take it apart and toss the hook over while holding the strap.
As a truck driver for many years We kept the straps and ratchets separate. It's ok for small straps not the bigger ones.
So do I, but I'm still going to use this storage method. When you need to throw the strap over the load all you need to do is hook the ratchet to your tie down rail and pull out a few metres of strap so you can throw the loose end over.
Debra Hall is
Never throw the buckle as it can do damage or hurt person on other side of truck. Hook buckle on then throw strap no damage and less chase of injuring person on opposite side of of load where you may not see a person. Still a cool way to store strap if not having to throw over a load.
Brilliant lol it's the simple things thanks for sharing this..
"How can you trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders? This man can't even trust his own pants."
very nice! Thanks for sharing this.
Only one issue I see with this method and that is the tail of your ratchet strap would be on the underside of your cinched load. I prefer to have the tail on the topside to pull tight then ratchet tightly so that the tail feeds square into the ratchet and not bind. Nice vid though..
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that.
Me to.
Peter Currie thats why he said unless you have to throw over a load, because then it would be under, he explained that in the video lol
I agree. I lose it on my guys when I grab a strap and the tail is underneath. I was breaking into a sweat watching the video
I thought it was just me.
Thank you love the idea....
i always just throw the straps in the back of the truck, one of my helpers with nothing to do one day took all of the straps and rolled them up nice and neat, some one stole them within the hour. So now I just throw them in the bed, to much trouble to steal them now.
Hah - no good deed goes unpunished !
A foreman I had, had the same theory about rolling up electrical chords. He'd say if they wanna steal em they can roll em up so we just left them laying out on the job. Never lost one
I keep most of my straps in my truck cab in the door pockets, But I keep 2 of them in my bed hooked to the side mounts and tight, They can steal them if they want but they would have to undo them, Uncross them, And then take them, And hope to god I don't see them because that's a pretty petty thing to lose all your teeth over.
I do the same thing. Mine are laying in the bed of my truck with one of the trailer hitches sitting on top of them.
Stolen!? You must live in Albuquerque!
What a great idea!
Excellent!! 👍❤️
Forging Freedom Podcast Channel j7u
Really cool idea.
Half it twice before you roll it up.
2 halfs,?! that's more fractions than I can begin to calculate, Aristotle
This is a pretty handy idea!
I could use one of these! Thank you for the demonstration of Triple R Strap. Awesome to see you using it on your videos coming up 👍👏☝️🏡🇺🇸
Great video! Thank you for sharing!
Great video ! I'm going to do that. Thanks
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing. Couldn't figure out a easy way of storing myself
Very helpful. But, say: why do they call it "Triple R"?
C. Kelly My first thought would be Re-thread, Roll, and Ratchet. But since the video he saw it in was originally in German, who knows.
Jut noticed your video. Two words,WOW, THANK-YOU,. You should see my ratchet box, very disorganised, takes me a while to find the right ratchet and it's partner, no more, Thanks to you! Again Wow & thank-you.
That's helpful thanks
I always wrapped it the other way with the hook end in, your way is much better, thanks!
Very enlightening.
Thank you Simeon
Great Thanks for Sharing
thanks Simeon. Handy trick
Nice video, thank you from Minnesota!
Great video.
great video thx for sharing