Erickson Ratchet Tie-Down Strap w/ Web Clamp and Snap Hooks - 2" x 30' - 3,300 lbs

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Today we're going to be taking a look at the Erickson ratchet tie-down strap with the web clamp and snap hooks. This is a 2" wide by 30' long strap. Its part number is EM58501. The thing that's really going to stand out to you about this strap, beyond its heavy duty construction and everything, that's going to be the keeper right up here for our strap. We're going to take our excess, we're going to slide it right through and allow that to come down and hold it. We'll show you how that works later.

These are the straps I personally own and I really like that feature. It works at least up to the speed limit. I've never had one come out of there. I really like the way it works. It's a 2" polyester webbing, very durable. This is going to give us a 3,300 pound safe working load limit, a 10,000 pound break strength.

You've also got the snap hooks on here, which are very convenient for attaching. Once you've got it on your attachment point, that snap hook's going to come up and it's going to apply some pressure and prevent it from sliding off for us so we're not going to be chasing our strap from one side of the trailer over to the other, back over to the other. Sometimes it can just get tiring. The steel itself is going to have a yellow dichromate finish on it. Same with the hooks, anywhere on the strap. It's going to be very resilient and resistant to corrosion so we'll have a good long-lasting product.

This isn't something that's going to get a little rain on it and fall apart. The handle, you see it's a nice wide handle. You can get all four of your finger in there, really get good purchase on it to get our load ratcheted down the way we need it. Got a 34' length of strap here so it's really going to come in handy for those big loads. With the strap keeper there we're not going to have to worry about that excess, so we can have a strap that's always going to be long enough to do the job but can also serve those purposes on the smaller loads like we'll secure today, and have a spot for that to go rather than dragging behind the highway. Just like the ratchet strap, you're going to have heavy duty stitching here on your polyester webbing strap. That's going to keep things from fraying over time, kind of wearing out.

They've also given us a double strap here. As you can see, there's a small piece of strap inside. That's acting as a buffer between our actual physical strap that we're going to be using and the hook itself to really soften that edge so we won't have any chafing or anything to deal with there. Now that we've gone over the features let's look at how these are going to secure our load. Our straps, as we said, snap lock on the end here, really easy, secure connection points where this isn't going to fall off. Then we can just take our strap, roll it over to the other side, and we'll make our connection over there as well. Now on this side, like a conventional strap, we're just going to bring it through the center and loop it right back around. We can take advantage of that to pull through any slack we might have. Because of that snap hook style we're going to be able to hook off over here knowing that it hasn't come off on that side. Something else that's interesting to note, this is a twisted style hook. You can see there's a little twist here. What this is going to do, it's going to help us in keeping our strap flat. If this we're a standard hook we'd be trying to hook it in and then this would be turning our strap or twisting it, making it a little harder to work with. It's a really clever design having that twist there so you can get a good pure connection without it wanting to move your strap one way or another. Then it's just going to be a matter of ratcheting it on down. Once we have it nice and tight we can move it all the way in that down position. As you can see, that's going to hold our handle down. Then we'll just tidy up our excess here and we'll tuck that right through our keeper and allow that to go down and hold it in place while we're traveling down the road. That's going to complete today's look at the Erickson ratchet tie-down strap with the web clamp and snap hooks. Its part number is EM58501. .