How-I-do: Ratchet strapping a load of planks to a roof rack
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2019
- Hi, please check out my other video about tying a load of stuff to your roof with endless/hookless straps. • Endless/Hookless Ratch...
Hi, this is the way I use my ratchet straps to secure loads of planks to my roof rack.
I've been doing it this way for years after trying many different paths for the straps, attachment points, and orientation of the ratchet itself.
This way works well and is simple to set up.
Cheers, Rob
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Here is a tip: Once you have rolled up your strap, put it in an old sock. It won't unravel until you need it.
Hey Brian, thanks man, that's a great tip!
Ah this is brilliant mine always get stored a tangled mess
@@TheBeowulf55 I have the same problem, this is a really good idea
I use elastic bands xD
@@jixal That would work as well. I find a sock lasts longer.
The.... the S hooks.... I've never seen them be friends in that way. Mind. Blown.
This is a family show dude, no rule 34 allowed! 🤣🤣
I just watched this with my phone placed on top of my car outside the DIY store here (in the UK), wood laid on roof rack and ratchet straps in hand. Very useful. Thanks.
Oh wow! Thanks for the feedback mate - made my day. 🤙
@@TakamiWoodshop I did exactly the same thing yesterday (also in London lol). Thanks so much, great video
Aww that's awesome dude! So good to hear, thanks! 🤙
A man of solutions good for you bro
I watched your great video (and kept it handy) before bringing twelve 5/4x6x12’ on my RAV4’s roof rack from Home Depot in Toronto, Ontario. When the time came to bring a load of 4x4 posts, I opted for renting their truck though. The RAV4 roof would have probably caved in under the 4x4s.
You get two gold stars from me. The first is because of the technical quality of your video. I can actually understand what you are saying. You have an excellent microphone presence unlike so many who garble words, talk too quietly, assume too much. You took your time and gave clear explanations. The second gold star is because your advice worked! I had to secure 16 2x2's and rope was useless. The rachet straps worked perfectly. No sliding around. Very secure. Thank you sir!!
I've been using ratchet straps for forty years. After all that time, I now know how to use them correctly. Many thanks.
Glad to help Kar Guy, took me a long time to figure it out too. I use these "endless/hookless" straps now - they are far simpler and easier to use. This is my updated video on the subject if you're interested.
czcams.com/video/xxsUeqALb3Q/video.html
Connecting the hooks onto each by their closed loop ends... Genius.
Physics tip: try to twist your straps, once or twice per exposed area. The twist breaks the vortexes created by the shear speed of wind, preventing it from flapping in the wind! New antennas, industrial chimneys and such have them to prevent em from wobbling in the wind before breaking!
Also love them comment at the end hahah! Thanks for the vid, happy days
I watched this a few times before buying a a bunch of 2 x 4s. They held like a champ all the way home. Thanks so much for this!
Awesome mate, good to hear. Thanks 👍🏻👍🏻
Haha, before this video you came home without the 2x4’s you bought? Sorry, couldn’t help myself 😅
This video got me right out of a pickle on the side of a busy London road with a dodgy load of scaffold boards yesterday. Thank you, sir.
Thanks for letting me know Joe, I'm really happy to hear that the video helped you out!👍🏻
Thanks so much for this! I was completely stumped on how to bring some long lumber home without having to rent a van. Not only did you solve my problem you also explained it very well :-)
Thanks mate. You've saved my bacon!
Watched this before a camping trip and it really saved our bacon! Thanks so much for such a handy video 👍
Brooooo you have no idea how many janky illogical tie-downs I’ve done. This is so much easier and safer, THANK YOU 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
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This is the best method to use, been trying to ratchet stuff on for years. Took watching a CZcams vid to work it out, thanks!
Nice. Balancing the overall load by stacking stock on the passenger side and the redundant hook connection are great tips. Definitely will try that during the next project.
Second time I come back to thia video. Genius and simple.
Thank you for posting this. Your instructions were clear and the matching visuals were great.
When I woke up today I didn't know how to use a ratchet strap. Going to sleep I'll be happy that I've been taught by you how to use them. Thanks mate! 😀👍
Awesome mate 💪💪
I’m new to roof racks and straps & I had no idea what to do. Thank you for taking the time to make this video 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this, just what I needed to see for my first time strapping a load of wood to my roof rack. Feeling much better about it now.
Hope it goes well. Stay safe 👍
Thank you such much for this video. I feel so much better about putting stuff on my roof racks now . I always just guessed how to do it. This was explained very well . Thanks again
I love having a pickup truck.
But today we need to put a longer board on some roof racks, so this was very helpful. Thank you!
Fabulous tutorial. I’ve just bought roof bars and was wondering about the best method to secure items. Thank you so much for taking the time to share .
Nice. This is better than my system. Stops me looking like an amateur on-site.
I never knew about that technique of strapping your load to the bars itself. I always thought roof luggage racks were so limited until now. Wow. Thank you!!
Nice job. Thanks
Thanks for the awesome video and love that you're also from NZ. So well explained and clearly shown, without all the rubbish found on other CZcams videos. Now to go get my timber!
Glad it helped mate, have fun with your project 👍🏻
Super helpful, seems so simple but little tricks make it work much better.
I've strapped wood to my roof rack several times before and I'm always doing a million twists and turns, every time a different way. Watched this today before getting bigger planks of wood, and voila! So easy and fast and supremely secure! Thank you sir!
You're welcome. Safe journeys to you! 👍
EXACTLY what I needed, today. Heading to the lumber store with confidence, now! Thanks, Rob!
Awesome dude👍🏻
This just saved me a whole lot of time and stress. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Great video Rob, thanks very much. I must say it took me a while to get the hang of working with ratchet straps, more so after a lifetime of using ropes and chains. This is a really good training video. I roll my straps like you do and then put them in a rubber ring (cut from an old inner tube) which holds them together and stops them unraveling - mainly because they are stored along with ropes in the under tray box on our truck.
Hey Bob. Cheers - I hope people will see this vid and -subscribe to my channel- umm, I mean get something useful out of it. Rolling them is good practice I think - the shoebox you see in the video here lives in the back of my car ready for whenever I may need straps.
Thanks for this. As a home owner without a pick up this is extremely helpful.
Very useful guide and also extremely straightforward. Thanks!
Great video. Short, right to the point, very informative.
Thank you very much for this clear instruction, it is very helpful! I just used the traps to take over two 4 by 4 wood beams.
Love this. On my way to home depot now full of rachety confidence!
Thanks! I’ve used this technique today, it was truly effective! Drywall metal studs, so it was very slippery, but I had no problems at all!
Thank you very much sir! You saved my night. I was struggling how to tigh my lumber on my roof. I watched your video while on the parking lot and boom!!! You are the best! Thank you!!!
🤙 glad the vid helped.
just tried this today. it worked like a champ. thank you!!!
Excellent instructional video with thoughtful use of camera angle and editing. Thank you!!!
Glad it was helpful!
I have to thank you. I was trying to find the best way to tie an ez up style pop up tent/canopy thing to my rack and this worked great.
Fantastic, that's great! Thanks for letting me know. Enjoy your trip! 👍
This is the best tutorial. It saved me! Great work, keep it up.
Excellent! Just what I needed. Thank you for sharing.
Great advice. Some of the other videos were not all that sound. I've now got it, thank you 👍
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Sold my SUV and purchased a smaller crossover with roof rack. Was really concerned on how to transport wood safely. Your technique was great!!! Used it today for the first time and was really easy.
Such a nice clear explanation, thanks for sharing.
Thanks David 👍🏻
Great method, perfect and safe. Thank you
Thank u. Overly estimated the space in my trunk n Now i need to strap our camping beds to the roof😂😢😂😂😂😅😊
Just watched this to learn how to secure a load to my roof tomorrow - thanks!
Thank you for sharing this video with us, very well explained,
Really well presented video, you’ve proven that it works & that’s what matters mate 🎥🔨👍
Cheers Dirk mate - yep - rock solid and I'm confident with this set up - way more so that I have been with some other methods I've used. This does the narrow loads really safely in my opinion.
I just tried it and worked like Charm. Drove 9 miles at 65mph . Thank you
9 miles at 65mph - about 8 minutes - lucky - this charm only works for 10 minutes max 😉
So simple, yet so helpful. Thank you!
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Haha that ending. looks like you're getting by just fine without a van Rob 🙂
hehe - not getting a van either. (I used to have one back in the day - a camper fit out that I bought off a German tourist when I was living in Queenstown riding for the government snowboarding team 😉)
Hi Rob thanks for sharing. It's brilliant! It's the best demonstration! 👍🙏
Awesome, thanks for that 👍🏻🤙
You made this look so easy. Thanks.
Your a legend mate, thanks for the video, very clear, informative and straight to the point 😀
I have watched so many videos, this is the Best, Easiest, Useful Understandable way👍👍👍thank you 🤝🤝🤝
You are welcome 👍
Thank you, this worked perfectly!
Thank you ,Thank you , Thank you , Thank you . This really helped.
Love it. Thanks for sharing!
Wow I wish I saw this some time ago .. I just couldn’t figure this out in the end I had to use the spring self clamping straps .. which did the trick but not as secure as ratchet strap... now I’ll follow your vid until I get the hang of it cheers buddy the video was perfect for what I needed to know..
That's great man, glad the vid helped. 👍🏻
Rob, thanks for providing such a helpful video on a subject matter which has perplexed me for sometime. I often use about 1km of rope in this situation with all sorts of hitches and knots which ultimately aren't anywhere near as effective or efficient as using ratchets in this manner. Great stuff.
Awesome 👍🏼
Perfect video mate. Thanks very much
Thank you! you have probably saved a few lives with this video, or at least property damage. I was trying to figure out the best way to strap things down and this worked great!
Glad it helped!
thanks for posting this. with your method, our SUV handled load of 5 4x4s and 10 2x4s great over a long distance, some of it very bumpy.
Asome you made a video about it! Many people don't know how to do this the right way! Like you show it is exactly the way i do it!
Awesome! You do it the same way. I've done it a few ways that are not as good and after a while this has ended up being the best, and the easiest - as long as I can reach the inner side of the load which can be difficult sometimes. Cheers mate! 👍🥓
@@TakamiWoodshop Yep exactly the same, i learned it years ago from an old manh who drive a truck. I guess he knows best.
Best explanation out there, mate, and I looked at many others after yours. None demonstrate how to use those straps on car roofs like you do. They all throw the other end across to the other bar and secure it there, which makes no sense when the load is stacked on one side like you have and I would have in transporting a few sticks of wood.
Going to try this method to transport a door tomorrow!
How did it go with the door?
Thanks for the advice much appreciated ❤
Thanks to this video, I just successfully transported two 16 foot long planks with a 15 foot long car.
Yeah, this feels like the correct way to do it, thanks
Perfect for what I needed to know, cheers mate. Going camping this weekend so I can test it out on some gear up on the roof
Awesome mate - have a good trip!
Very well explained thank you
great tutorial
This was very helpful, thank you for posting
Glad it was helpful!
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Thanks man - hope you enjoy. Got tons of stuff coming up. 👍 Welcome to the channel!
Thanks. I was scratching my head on this very issue
thank you for very useful lesson!
now I know it how to use it properly ......nice tutorial , many thanks
Thank you for this, super easy to follow.
Glad it helped 👍
This is the video I needed
Thanks, a great little video.
Such a very helpful video. Thumbs up mate!
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This video absolutely nails it! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome bro. Great information. I will use this method tomorrow.
Cheers dude, stay safe out there 👍
Great concise video. And without the usual background annoying music. Well done.
It’s a shame I can’t give you a like twice. After using this technique, I needed to use it again a year later, but I had forgotten how to do it, and this video is so well explained and to the point it’s saved me twice. Thanks!
Thank you man! That's great to hear. I'm glad it helped you out and I appreciate the awesome feedback. Take care Matías.
The best thorough instructions on CZcams. Liked and Sub'd.
Cheers dude!
Very nice!
Thanks for the tips!
No problem!
Wow! Thank you so much. Have tried so many different ways to do it but this is definitely what I'll be doing in the future
Awesome man, glad to hear - stay safe! 👍
Some great tips. Recently got some straps and needed to use them today on a couple of joists I was buying (couldn't justify £20 for delivery, when only wanting a small order). They did not budge when travelling on the motorway - the tip about the ends to reduce noise was great too.
The car next to me collecting some decking were using a frayed piece of old blue nylon rope and then raiding the skip for some plastic banding to try and make it more secure - just hope they weren't going far.
Great to hear Nic 👍🏻. I've carried large items like mattresses and dinghies as well with the same technique. Here in NZ those people would possibly get an "Insecure load" fine, I think it's about $600 (£300). Or worse, they could cause an accident. Better to be safe than sorry. Cheers man 🤙
Good tip Rob. Between this and Sumo's video on the knot he uses when using rope to tie down a load, I'm covered either way. Although, maybe a van would be a good option.
I was amazed that Sumo doesn't use ratchets - he's old school but he knows his knots. I could definitely use some more rope skills. For some reason everyone here is telling me to get a van 🙄
This was actually useful
Thank you for this!!
Finally- someone knows how to use a ratchet strap the correct way!👍
Do you mean yourself now that you've seen the video or you already knew and you're checking up on people?
@@TakamiWoodshop I've been using ratchet straps for over 45+ yrs! I'm a welder and we strap steel on the truck rack multiple times a day! Most of the time I see loads where they do not wrap the strap around the bundle! And as you know this leads to the load sliding on the rack! Or having the center of the bundle come loose and slide out! I can't tell you how many of these vids I've seen where they do this! One was a vid from a Texas state trooper and he didn't wrap the strap- he placed the load in a manner that it was half on each side of a SUV rack then put the strap across over the top of both bundles! Very unsafe! Now when I have to explain to someone how to do it I can refer them to your vid- THANK YOU!
Awesome! I don't do this on a daily basis but I've done it enough times in my life and seen enough horror show loads flimsily strapped to peoples' roofs to spend the time to dial in the process. I'm glad I shared it on CZcams because a lot of people have written in the comments that it helped them out.
Thanks man, stay safe.
@@TakamiWoodshop You too my friend and keep up with the great info! Lord knows these folks could sure use the guidance!😁👍
Thank you sharing this brother
I love how maticulous u are! I bet ur spouse loves how organized u are!
Hey Jag, You're right, I am pretty maticulous... but you mean meticulous right? 😁
@@TakamiWoodshop hahaha u got me!
Very useful, thanks!
Nice vid and tips.