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When You Have Reflective Tie Downs You Will Love Them

16 December, 00:22, by admin Tags: , , ,
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In the world of webbing tie downs for trailers , the ratchet strap and winch strap are playing a big role in cargo securement , cargo strap can be used inside the box trucks and on the flat beds , while winch straps usually are used with flat bed trucks with winches installed . And truck tie downs are much more than just ratchet straps and winch straps , for instance there are grade 70 chains , chain tensioners, logistic strap, and more .

There is a special kind of tie downs which have reflective strips on the webbing , in low light the reflective strips can be seen from far away , this looks like a safety feature, is it? When it comes to safety, even a tiny bit of improve on safety should be worth buying the reflective straps. Due the reflective tie downs are relatively new on the market, we don’t have much proof of safety benefits, All we need to know is that if you can see the reflection on the straps half mile away, it’s not likely we will hit the target due to bad sight.

Now compare the price of regular tie down to reflective tie down, get online you will find a lot of interesting information, a simple search tells us that the reflectives are a bit more expensive than regular ones, but not much, you will be able to buy a piece for around 10 something dollars, reflectives will increase the price by $1 to $2 , IMHO it should be more expensive, say you buy 10 straps the price difference is about $20, since these straps can be used for quite some time, the conservative estimation will be at lease 6 months, it’s only about $3 a month to have the added security of reflectives! Its definitely worthwhile to get the reflective tie downs!

Total Truck Tie Downs: Chains and Binders

15 December, 23:39, by admin Tags: , ,
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Grade 70 transport chain and ratchet chain binder are heavy duty tie down equipment , all these tie downs are made from steel, the WLL of the chains and binders are higher than most comparable tie down straps , let’s look at 5/16” transport chain(WLL 4700lbs) vs. 2” tie downs(typical WLL 3333lbs) ,  3/8” chain(WLL around 6600lbs) to 4” tie downs(5400lbs max.) , you will see that compare to tie down straps, binder chains are much stronger, and chain binders are even stronger than same size chains, for instance, 5/16”-3/8” binder has WLL 5400lbs which is stronger than 4700lbs working load limit of 5/16” system 7 chain . Another reason chains and binders are considered heavy duty, is their design factor is 4:1 while webbing tie downs have 3:1 typical design factor, see “Design Factor” for reference .

These chains and binders are mostly used to haul big, heavy equipment, such as backhoe, bulldozer, these things are hard on straps, only carbon steel chains can sustain that kind of abuse , when we talk about backhoe, forklift, we need at least 3/8” system 7 chains and binders to secure them, for something which has less weight we consider 5/16” chains are good fit, of course we still have 1/2” and up chains and binders, these chains will most likely be used to tie down something out of ordinary, such as battle tanks, or some other applications require super heavy duty chains.

As we stated above, grade 70 chains , or say binder chains are used on a lot things except for overhead lifting. There are people who use these chains to tear trees, to tow mobile loading docks, a lot of forestry services use large quantity of these system 7 steel chains and binders .

Truck Tie Down Straps

27 April, 13:18, by admin Tags: , , , ,
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Truck tie downs mean a lot different things to different people, we will focus on commercial truck tie downs in our discussion, specifically, we are going to talk about flat bed truck this time.

Since people put all kinds of stuff on the flat bed truck, just because they can or they have to, the needs for tie downs become complicated. We will look into different type of tie downs.

We will discuss truck tie down straps only.

Truck Winch and Winch Straps:

Some flat beds come with winches installed, not all flat beds have winches installed . When you have the winches installed, we can use winch straps to tie down loads on the flat bed, usually we tie down steel coils, concrete pipes, skids, anything that not too heavy for the 5400lbs working load limit. Winch straps usually come with flat hooks, because we usually hook the straps into the edge of the trailer, of course the wire hook(double J hook) can be used too. There are 2” and 4” truck winches and 2” and 4” winch straps, depends on applications, the strap length can be 20′, 25′, 27′, 30′, 35′, 40′ or more than 50′.

And there are ratchet straps:

Ratchet straps are most popular tie down straps because of their flexibility, you can use them almost anywhere when it’s applicable. The ending comes with quite some varieties, flat hooks, double J hooks(wire hooks), chain extensions(chain anchor), snap hooks, endless and more. And it’s width can be 1” to 4”, length can be a few feet to more than 50′. On commercial trucks ratchet tie downs are the best tie devices for truckers, those flat bed trucks without winches installed will look at ratchet straps seriously.

To acquire these tie down straps, you have the choice between local stores and online retailers, depends on different situation, get them locally sometimes more appropriate, sometimes online deals are much more attractive.