Today we are going to review part number 1154000 from Highland. This is a retractable ratchet strap. A couple quick notes about this is that the strap is 2 inches wide by 10 feet long. It has a breaking strength of 3,300 pounds. And it is also self-storing, which means that when you have your object tied down onto your vehicle, you do not have any extra strap blowing around in the breeze. The hooks themselves are rubber coated, so it will protect anything that you are tying down to. So if you are using this on a motorcycle or some object with a nice finish on it, it will not mar it up. 0:31
Alright, we will go ahead and show you the operation of this ratchet. It is pretty easy. To extend it, make sure you have the handle pushed down flat. Push down this red button and then you can actually pull out what you need. And also you push the red button back in and it will actually retract itself too. We are going to pull it out. To tighten up our object, push down the red button. Pull up on the ratchet and that tightens everything up. And once you have it tightened down, you can just leave it like this or bring it back to this notch right here and it will definitely not go anywhere. And from this point, if you want to release it, push the red button down. It will come out of this notch. And then push it flat. 1:07
Now we will go ahead and show this on a practical application, on a trailer with a load. We will take the long end of the strap, hook it to our tie-down point. The tie-down point is going to vary from trailer to trailer. We are just using this for now. Okay, we have it hooked up on the other side. Push this button and just ratchet it until you have as tight as you want it. And there you have it for part number 1154000 from Highland.
