Hot-rodding your 2" ratchet straps (beginner weld project)

[Tractor Seabee]

I just bought 8, 1-1/2" ratchet straps with those stile hooks, dont like them but was $30.00 cheaper that the ones with regular hooks. I was wondering if they could be spot welded before melting the webbing, but your webbing looks more heavy duty then mine.

Wrap a wet rag around, keeps thh weld splatter off also.

Ron

 

[4570Man]

Hot-rodding your 2" ratchet straps (beginner weld project)

I just buy the ratchet straps with clips instead. They work a lot better on a stake pocket.

 

[jackpine savage]

Re: Hot-rodding your 2" ratchet straps (beginner weld project)

Sodo that is a great idea. I've always been frustrated that the hooks wouldn't fit through the 2x4 stake pockets. In the past I've smashed a few of them a little flatter, but it wasn't an easy process.

 

[Sodo]

Pay attentiion when you cut the corners off the hooks.

Ooops straps just piled on the floor below the vise.....
Red hot steel (the cut-off corner) dropped onto the nylon strap
and melted itself to the strap.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Pay attentiion when you cut the corners off the hooks.

Ooops straps just piled on the floor below the vise.....
Red hot steel (the cut-off corner) dropped onto the nylon strap
and melted itself to the strap.

Well, you just trashed that strap.

 

[Sodo]

It's no longer my favorite. But still better than my worst.

 

[rktman26]

What I do with the excess strap... (Not me)

 

[dragoneggs]

What I do with the excess strap... (Not me)

I like it... also loved the bonus footage of his daughter (I assume) driving the ATV up on a stump with a little coaching! :thumbsup:

 

[Sodo]

That's awesome.
You could use that to store the straps that you wanna be able to "toss the roll" over the pile.
I'm gonna have to practice that one (so maybe I can remember it).

For me, "tossing the roll" is a very seldom occurrence.
Most of the time spent is taking out the twists.
So I'm not one for adding twists to my straps in the first place.

 

[Big Barn]

Hot-rodding your 2" ratchet straps (beginner weld project)

Pay attentiion when you cut the corners off the hooks.

Ooops straps just piled on the floor below the vise.....
Red hot steel (the cut-off corner) dropped onto the nylon strap
and melted itself to the strap.

No loss, Sodo. Chop off the heat damaged part and take advantage of the “shorty” for all those occasions you don’t need all that extra length for securing. This may be your ‘go to’ strap!

I’ve got boxes of webbing straps I’ve shortened that I keep around for making hinges, hangers etc.



I did a quickie for the second photo with a single bolt as an example for creating the “eye”. Normally for a 3-4” wide strap I would have used two bolts with a full width backing strip on each side. Holes in webbing should be punched as opposed to drilled.