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USA made straps with shock absorbers hold tight around your vehicle or heavy cargo so that even toys with bouncing suspensions stay put. No need to pull over and re-tighten. Zinc-coated twisted snap hooks with clips. 10,000-lb Max load.
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Note: Tie-down straps must be chosen according to their safe working load limit (WLL). The weight of the secured cargo must not exceed the combined WLL of the straps being used. For example, if you are using straps with a WLL of 500 lbs each to tie down a load weighing 1,000 lbs, then you need at least 2 straps to safely secure that load. It is recommended that you always use straps in pairs.
Made in America to military-grade specifications, these one-of-a-kind ratchet straps from ShockStrap are great for nearly any application, from securing cargo on your vehicle for your next weekend getaway, to strapping down your favorite toys on your trailer. The 12' length of these straps is perfect for securing heavy loads to your trailer and tying down UTVs and utility tractors.
Unlike traditional straps, which don't stretch or contract, this tie-down is uniquely designed with built-in shock absorbers that allow the strap to maintain constant tension on your load as you travel. This is great for vehicles with suspension systems that can compress and rebound when you travel rough terrain.
The webbing of a standard strap can't stretch or contract to absorb impacts. As a result, standard tie-downs might become detached from their anchor points, or they may become slack around your gear as the load shifts. But this ratchet strap features 2 built-in urethane shocks that are designed to absorb impact and to allow give. This ensures that the tie-down stays taut and won't loosen over time. The built-in shocks help to keep the tie-down from coming loose or failing, which could result in lost or damaged gear.
In addition, the shock ensures a longer life for the strap webbing. If you use this to tie down a UTV, for example, the constant compressing and rebounding of the UTV's suspension during travel can wreak havoc on ordinary straps. The webbing is likely to experience more wear and tear as it rubs along your gear. But the ShockStrap's shock absorbs these jolts so that the webbing of the tie-down stays put instead of wearing over the edges of your equipment.
This tie-down features a commercial-grade, field-replaceable ratchet that is easy to use. To release the ratchet, grab the oversized handle and pull on the release lever. The release lever is positioned on the outside of the ratchet to ensure safe and easy operation, even if you're wearing gloves.
To use the ShockStrap ratcheting tie-down strap, first attach one of the sturdy twisted snap hooks to a desired anchor point. Then stretch the strap over your cargo and secure the other hook to a point on the opposite side of your truck or trailer. Each hook has a wide opening, making it hassle-free to maneuver and attach the hooks to your anchor points.
Once the hooks are in place, tighten the webbing around the cargo and activate the shocks. To tighten the strap, crank the ratchet mechanism until the webbing is taut around your load. Be sure not to overtighten the strap. If your hand cannot fit between the shock and the safety strap, the strap is too tight.
To activate the shocks, tighten the strap a bit more, stretching the shocks until light is visible through the bolt holes in each shock. In warm climates, the shocks can stretch up to 2", while in subzero climates you may only get about 1/2" of give.
Finally, after tightening the webbing and stretching the shocks, make sure your cargo is completely secure and then tie off any extra slack.
Additional ShockStrap accessories can be added to help with load securement. Use the ShockStrap strap latches (297-2STY - sold separately) to secure the hooks on this tie-down strap to anchor points, ensuring that the hooks won't pop off while you are securing your load or while you are traveling.
The sturdy, UV-resistant polyester webbing of this tie-down strap has a high tolerance for abrasion and water absorption.
The shocks are made of urethane, which can withstand elements such as sunlight, saltwater, moisture, oil, fungi, and most chemicals. These shocks can function in nearly any temperature, holding up to hot and cold weather conditions without losing elasticity or becoming unyielding or brittle over time.
The rust-resistant, yellow zinc chromate coating on the ratchet and hardware holds up to the varying weather conditions.
A safety strap is also built into this tie-down to provide peace of mind should something happen to the shocks. This safety strap ensures that if the tie-down is used improperly, overloaded, or unduly stretched, your cargo will remain secured.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello everybody. This is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at the shock strap, 12 foot long ratchet tie-down straps with the shock absorbers for a quantity of two straps. Now these shock absorbing ratcheting tie-down straps, will let you secure cargo in your truck, bed or your trailer. I now wanna zoom in and show you the unique feature on these straps are these built-in urethane shock absorbers, right there. These are designed to help absorb any impact to ensure constant tension of the strap even as your load shifts.
The shock absorbers themselves are made of a urethane based material, which will stand up to extreme temperatures, salt, water, moisture, oil and most chemicals. They do attach them to the straps using the sturdy grade A eight bolts and the nylock nuts. That'll hold the shocks in place. Also, if you notice right here, they have this nice safety strap and a safety strap has two purposes. The first one is it gives you an extra strap.
If for some reason the shock observers would break. You'll still have this strap to hold everything together. Now I mentioned about these breaking, pretty highly unlikely that these would break. The manufacturer says that these would have to stretch at least 18 to 20 inches to come close to breaking and actually you'll notice when you use these, you'll hardly even move these. So when you tension it up, these will probably even hardly move.
So you'll never get them to stretch that far, but still they do put the safety strap on here, but the other nice feature of the safety strap it is that it acts as a limiter. So you don't over ratchet the strap. So basically when you hook this up and tighten it down, as you're tightening it, the strap will tighten up to the shock absorbers and what you wanna be able to do is slide your fingers between the safety strap and the shock absorber and that'll give you the correct tension. So if you can slide your fingers in, slide them out, and that means your strap is correct tightened to the right tension. Now, these straps are DOT department of transportation approved.
They are made in the USA, also because of the shock absorber feature, each straps are great for securing cargo that has a suspension system that could compress and rebound when you travel rough terrain. So these straps will work great for snowmobiles, motorcycles, utility tractors or ATVs and UTVs cause they all have the suspension and when you tighten them down as you're driving and you hit rough roads, that suspension could react to that and causes the straps to loosen, With these straps these shock absorbers would keep the tension even when, that strap could try to loosen this absorb would keep it tight. Now the ratchet mechanism right here, this makes it very easy to tighten down the strap and maintain tension on the strap. Consider opening and closing it'll tighten up the strap, has a nice wide aluminum handle, handle release lever right here will ensure simple, safe operation even if you're wearing thick gloves. Just wanna zoom out to show you, what you can do is if you open this, if you pull up on this lever now to the ratchet, you don't have to pull up on that lever you can just ratchet as you need, but if you go to hook up and you wanna pull out some extra strap. If you lift up on that lever and then extend this handle all the way out to where it won't be connected to the ratchet anymore and that'll let the strap open up as much as you need, just like that you can pull up pull out as much as you need. So it makes it very easy to pull out to your there, extension, hook it up and then tighten it just pull up again on the lever, put it into the ratchet position. See, just like that. You're ratcheting that strap in, tighten this up. So it's very simple to operate very simple to hook up. Now they have on the ends they use these twisted snap hooks. Just wanted to show you those, we'll zoom in on those, you can see, they call them twisted because if you noticed how this is flat here, they do offer straps that have the hooks flat straight out. These are twisted 90 degrees, but these hooks are nice because they have a nice wide one inch opening you can see, allows a nice hassle-free connection to your anchor point and then if you notice these spring loaded retention clips will help keep the hooks connected to your anchor points. Just push it on it, connect it, let it go and that'll keep it hooked up. Same way on the other end. Now all the steel hardware on these straps have a corrosion resistant, yellow zinc chromate coating on them and that'll hold up the hot, cold and wet weather conditions. The webbing, it's a durable black polyester webbing it's UV resistant withstands abrasions and water absorption and the dimension on the strap itself is two inches wide, 12 foot long each strap. Now the minimum usable length on the strap is 32 inches. Now they do also have a mark on the strap. They'll give you the breaking strength, which is the maximum load is 10,000 pounds. And then the worst safe working load limit is what you wanna go by, that's a third of the break strength. So it'd be 3,333 pounds. So one note I do wanna mention is on tie-down straps, you must choose them according to the safe working load limit we mentioned. So basically the weight of the secured cargo must not exceed the combined working load limit of your straps. So for example, if you have straps that are working load limit of 500 pounds each and you're tying down a load, weighing 1000 pounds, that's gonna tell you to need at least two straps to safely secure that load and we do always recommend to use straps in pairs. But that should do it for the review on the shock strap, 12 foot long ratchet tie-down straps with the shock absorbers per quantity of two..
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (382 Customer Reviews)
USA made straps with shock absorbers hold tight around your vehicle or heavy cargo so that even toys with bouncing suspensions stay put. No need to pull over and re-tighten. Zinc-coated twisted snap hooks with clips. 10,000-lb Max load.
Way better than standard tie downs. Holds better if you tighten enough as compared to standard tie down and does not slack up
These are just what I was looking for and more. Was looking for motorcycle tie-down that wrapped around handlebars. The shock absorber is a bonus.
The product performed as it was advertised. The straps were well constructed and it was obvious a great deal of thought went into the design. I shoot sporting clay targets and haul a John Deere Gator 825 XUV to events, as a means of transportation around the course. Roads traveling to and from events, often, are gravel or dirt. This can and does create rough road surfaces to pull trailers and XUVs on. I used the Shock Straps this past week and watched to Gator as I drove on some rough terrain. The Gator did not move or sway during the trip. When I got to my destination, the straps were as tight as when I left for the trip. There was absolutely no play in the straps. Previously, I was always adjusting the straps and the XUV would rock and bounce on rough terrain. No any more.
I use these to tie down Honda Rancher ATVs, I took out the rubber shock as it's useless(too stiff) for the weight of the ATV and provides no shock motion. The strap itself is unbeatable. Heavy duty, with the loop and latching hook that make this strap a super safe option. The strap and hook WILL NOT come off going down a rough road, due to the safety mechanisms. Well worth the price if you want long lasting AND safety as peace of mind.
Best strap I have had for timing down my Polaris Ranger!
I ordered these to strap down an ATV for several hour highway trips during hunting season. They work great and my atv does not bounce around and loosen the straps like traditional ratchet straps do. I've recommended to several friends who have also ordered and have the same success. Great product!
The etrailer team set up my account for no sales tax (we are a school) quick and easy. Once I placed my order, it arrived just as quick. I recommend etrailer very highly.
I should have bought the straps that bolt to the trailer.
These work but not much need for the shock feature or the loops at the end of the strap.
I love the Shock straps. After using them for a year they are still working great. I would recommend to anyone.
This review is more of etrailer not a product. Ordered these tiedowns for a birthday gift. Website indicated delivery in 4 to 5 days. They didn’t even ship for nearly a week, birthday came and went its need 12 days since ordering and still have not received the item. If you really want these tiedowns, find them somewhere else other than etrailer.
They look nice and heavy and made of good quality materials reason for 4 stars I haven’t used them yet
Excellent product. The heat does cause the rubber coating on the hooks if they're tied down for any length of time. Sometimes the locking mechanism gets stuck in an in-between position and it's difficult to unlock; however, these are still the best straps I've ever had and I've had zero load shifting problems or broken straps. I will definitely buy a second set.
Like everyone else I would go through the efforts of strapping down a utv only to see my ratchet straps hanging off the trailer as I look at my review mirror 10 minutes into my trip. Never again! Used these on a 200 mile round trip down all kinds of roads (freeway, country roads, dirt roads, etc) and never had to adjust or tighten them. A must have.
These straps are great. The are strong and allow for some movement of the motorcycles without have the straps break or come loose. The Harley was transported to Las Vegas and back, 2500 miles with no issues.
WELL MADE HEAVY DUTY, WISH THEY HAD THE CARRY BAG
Easy to assemble, easy to use. I lug around my 450SXF on my 2005 Prius. Works great.
exactly as advertised
Knowledgeable staff helped me make the right decision
I was looking for tie down straps to haul my ATV as well as my garden tractor. The standard straps were okay but did seem to loosen up after traveling for awhile. So I took a chance on these ones based on the details one etrailer as well as reviews. I have not been disappointed. They worked as described and do not loosen in transit. I would definitely purchase again.
Very well thought out product. Works well on the front of my BMW K1600GTL. Allows some movement, to minimize road shock, without allowing the bike to loosen up, especially as the Duolever front does not compress the fork spring when strapped down.
Geesh these are really large! Bought these over the 1.5" as it was almost the same price. But now getting them, I almost wish I got the small version for our Dirt Bikes. But these will for sure more then do! Heck.. I could even use them to pull a car out of a mud pit with these 2"ers. I'll keep them vs swapping for the smaller..
Heavy duty straps straped my utv down made a 2 hour trip they stayed tight just like they advertise had good promt service with etrailer they are more expensive than some other straps but very much worth it
Awesome product, performs better than I expected. Super strong and built well. Well worth the money invested.
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