Neat Stowage for Ratchet Straps

[RichardAllen]

Does anyone out there have a cunning means of storing ratchet straps neatly ? I use quite a few for strapping down roofrack loads, and they always end up in a horrible tangle. Someone must know how to do this better.

All help gratefully received on a minor but irritating problem.

Regards

Richard

[ThreePointFive]

Roll them up around the ratchet and then rubber band around the whole lot.

[headhunter]

^^^^^ the simplest solution I have found too!

John

[maxtherotti]

what most hgv drivers do too

rob

[Earl]

Si do I

[David Sparkes]

No doubt the rubber bands are cut from cross sections of old inner tubes (from cars or lorries) or bicycle inner tubes, of varying wheel diameters, doubled or tripled (one tube wrapped round two or three times, not two or three tubes per ratchet!).

Somehow I don't think the alternative, of ex Post Office red elastic bands, will be quite up to the job. Pity, as they do seem easily available :-)

Cheers.

[LandyManLuke]

There's no need for rubber bands, you can use the end of the strap.

[maxtherotti]

No doubt the rubber bands are cut from cross sections of old inner tubes (from cars or lorries) or bicycle inner tubes, of varying wheel diameters, doubled or tripled (one tube wrapped round two or three times, not two or three tubes per ratchet!).

Somehow I don't think the alternative, of ex Post Office red elastic bands, will be quite up to the job. Pity, as they do seem easily available :-)

Cheers.

no just get some heavy duty elastic bands they work a charm

rob

[gsr341]

Somehow I don't think the alternative, of ex Post Office red elastic bands, will be quite up to the job. Pity, as they do seem easily available :-)

i have a nice steady supply of these , the postie sits in his van at the bottom of the drive and sorts out his next drop

[BogMonster]

Or doesn't, at the moment

I just wind mine round my hand until there is a couple of feet left, wrap that tightly around the middle of the bundle and put the tail through one of the loose loops, keeps them fairly tidy.

[headhunter]

i have a nice steady supply of these , the postie sits in his van at the bottom of the drive and sorts out his next drop

The current red bands used by the post office do not appear to be as durable as the original brown version, so using the tail of the strop is the simplest solution.

[streaky]

I use a Tuppaware container....if you roll them up tightly you don't need elastic bands to keep them in place.

[Mark90]

And elastic bands to keep your sandwiches together?

[RichardAllen]

I got a sack of velcro cable ties which work very neatly.

Regards

Richard

[landroversforever]

the velco things sound simmilar to what i was thinking of looking for. Bigger version of what PC builders use to tidy cables up.

[SiWhite]

Go into a good sewing shop and get some stuff called strapping. It is double sided velcro which you can buy off a reel. Fantastically useful for this sort of job, and about a million others.

Linky...

[Kev Baldwin]

Do you mean something like this....

Available here

[M&S]

I use a Tuppaware container....if you roll them up tightly you don't need elastic bands to keep them in place.

I do something similar. I have a dividers in it, one side for the long strap, the other for the ratchet part. Seems to do the trick for me.

Now my cargo net is a different matter. It's a large net with about a dozen hooks on it. The only way I've found of storing that is to use it! Any tips?

[SiWhite]

You sell some cool stuff Kev...!

[western]

Roll them up around the ratchet and then rubber band around the whole lot.

me too, with the hook in the centre.

[simonr]

I saw a truck driver winding the straps on the side of a curtain-sider with a device which was essentially a fork made from two flat bars with a crank handle. You wind the strap on with the crank, then pull the device out the middle. He was using plastic clips to keep the straps tidy (like a big kirby-grip) - but a rubber band would work too.

It was only taking a few sec per strap - so quite a saving in time.

Si

[Kev Baldwin]

You sell some cool stuff Kev...!

Cheers! We try our best!

[Mark90]

I saw a truck driver winding the straps on the side of a curtain-sider with a device which was essentially a fork made from two flat bars with a crank handle. You wind the strap on with the crank, then pull the device out the middle.

Like this