Durabilt Ratchet Chain Binder with Eye Fittings - 16,000 lbs

Video Transcript for Review of Durabilt Chain Binders - Ratchet Chain Binder - DU55MR

Hello, everybody. This is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at the Durabilt ratcheting chain binder with the eye fittings. Has a 12,000 pound working load limit. Now, the ratchet chain binder like this will increase the tension in the chain until it's taut using a twisting or ratcheting mechanism. The ratchet binders are often viewed as a safer option cause they do not store as much energy in the handle, so it reduces the risk of recoil and harming the user.

These ratchet binders have the lever and the screw working together, which means it takes less pulling on the handle to apply tension to the binder. So, it is perfect for agricultural and industrial tie-down applications. Zoom in here, you can see the ratcheting mechanism right here makes it very easy to tension change. Allows you to safety remove the ratchet binder when finished. And it has a lever here that if you push one, what you can ratchet one way.

And if you push it the up, down the other way, that'll let you ratchet the other way. So, you can change your ratchet rotation by pushing that lever down. The eye fittings you can see on this one will let you easily connect your hooks or links. The bearings in here, these will extend to provide extra reach. The screw diameter on them is 7/8 of an inch.

If you notice on the barrel itself, has these grease zerk fittings. It allows you to hook a grease gun to it. And you can pump grease in there for easy lubrication of the bearings. Now, the continuous take-up feature provides a finite adjustment. The take-up length is about six inches.

So, the distance between these bearings, in other words, when they're closed, tightened all the way down, it's gonna be about 12 1/4 inches. And when you twist these open, it's gonna go out to about 18 1/4 inches. This is a nice steel construction. It's very durable. You can see it as a red paint finish on the handle and on the barrel which is highly visible. On the eye fittings, you can see they have a nice yellow zinc finish for resist, to resist corrosion. Now, this part does meet or exceed the CVSA and Department of Transportation standards. Few specs on this again, the safe working load limit is 12,000 pounds. The proof load limit is 24,000 pounds. Now, the handle length measured from here to the end, we get our tape measure on that. And you can see that's gonna be right at 15 inches. The barrel length, which we've measured from here to here, and it's gonna be right at 10 inches. And the weight on this is 6.6 pounds. But that should do it for the review on the Durabilt ratcheting chain binder with the eye fittings and a 12,000 pound working load limit..