How to Use a Ratchet Strap - Tips and Tricks!

Ratchet straps are incredibly handy devices, and they are even harder workers when you team them up with some helpers and clever techniques.

Today DirtFarmer Jay will quickly demystify setting up and using ratchet straps and then share several tips we’ve received from viewers as well as some techniques we’ve developed to get more out of our ratchet straps.

Come along on this rapid-paced string of how-to’s ranging from better attachment gear, securing plywood loads flat on the bed of your short-bed truck, combining threaded links and carabiners for convenience, cool accessories, securing excess straps, and protecting your straps in use.

Finally, you’ll learn how to loosen a ratchet strap properly, how to untangle a ratchet strap and a couple of methods of neatly stowing your straps so they are ready to go to work the next time they respond to the call of duty.

With the skills you’ll learn in the episode below, you’ll be even MORE self-reliant. Don’t you just love it when you can JUST DO IT YOURSELF?