Brophy Stake Pocket Tie Down Anchor - Black Powder Coat - 2-5/16" D-Ring - 4,000 lbs

Video Transcript for Brophy Stake Pocket Tie Down Anchor Review

What's up everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we're going to be checking out this stake pocket D ring attachment point from Brophy. It's going to go right here in our stake pocket on our trailer. And with this pin in place, it's going to give us an attachment point to tie down whatever cargo we're hauling. Today I got my vehicle pulled up there, so we're going to need something to attach the ratchet strap to. And this is where it's going to come in handy.

With that in there, it's not going to go anywhere. And we have an attachment point to get things tied down. Let's check it out. Something I want to point out right away though, is that this is a little bit longer of a stake pocket tie down. So what I mean by that is you can come down here to the base right under this plate into the center of the pin here.

It's going to be seven and a quarter inches long. So, you might want to look at some other sizes if that doesn't match up to your pocket. You can see there is quite a bit of extra room, so when I do go to tie down and tighten up this ratchet strap, I'll probably want to lift it up here, just so that way it doesn't shift on me when we're moving. You don't want to move down like I've started here. You've got a ratchet.

It would pull it up and any time you'd hit something it could do that. So, if you pull it up here, when you go to ratchet it, it it'll stay here and stay in place. You can still use it, it'll still be just as functional. Just wanted to give you that heads up if it's too long for your stake pocket. One of the nice things about having the stake pocket tie down, though, is you can move it wherever you need it.

So, if you only buy four, like we have, that's two on each side, they're not stuck to where you mount them. So if you we're to permanently mounted some D-rings, of course you drill holes, put them here on your trailer. You'd never be able to move that, which is fine, I guess. But if you have different loads that you're always carrying on your flatbed, you're gonna have to move this around and have different tie-down points. This allows you to just drop it wherever you want it to go or wherever you need it to be. So it's just that easy to drop that in the pocket, add that pin, and you have a tie down point. Looking closer at the D ring, it can go either way here. It moves very adjustable. And that's good for if you have something tied low, like we do. We have our axle strap over there. So it's going to stay low and kind just, we'll hook this. It's going to just pull it to the side like that. It's maneuverable, but that's fine. Now, if you had a load on your trailer, you run the stops over top. And if you're more pulling up here, that'd be fine, too. This moves all the way here to here. So it's got plenty of movement there. So it's going to be wherever you need to be when you need to tie something down. The overall construction is going to be a black powder coat steel. So, it will hold up. But as you can see, we've dropped it in these different pockets. And some of the welds are a little bit off. It's already getting scratched up, but that's not a knock on this one. That's just going to happen when you're using these stake pocket things. As you drop them in there or move it or tighten things down, it's just going to get scratched up. Now your stake pocket tie downs are going to have a safe working load limit of 4,000 pounds. And then it's going to have a brake strength of 12,000 pounds. So just keep that in mind when you're using them. And we're gonna use them in combination, so make sure you, if you have four of them you're using, you combine those all together to the safe working load limit and get your actual safe working load limit. Something to be cautious of, though, is if your ratchet straps have a lower rating than the tie down points, definitely go with the ratchet straps. Something else to note is that the shackle itself is going to be a half an inch in diameter. So that's this portion here. Just wanted to point that out so that you look at your ratchet straps and the space in your hooks, just to make sure that's enough for it to go around and snap into place. Overall, though, they're going to do a great job to help you tie down whatever you want to load up on your trailer. Again, I like that they aren't permanent in their spots. I can move them to any of these sections where there's stake pockets to tie down, whatever I decide to carry all on my trailer. Whether it's your vehicle, or if there's a flat load that I need to run the straps over top, there's going to be a spot for all those pockets all on both sides of the trailers. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out. And I hope this helped..