Video Transcript for Erickson Car Tie-Down with Ratchet and Twisted Snap Hooks Feature Review

Speaker 1: Today we're taking a look at the Erickson Car Tie-down with Ratchet and Twisted Snap Hooks. This heavy-duty tie-down strap lets you secure a vehicle or equipment on your truck bed or trailer. You can use this with an axle strap to secure the tie-down to your vehicle's axle. Axle straps are sold separately and available at etrailer.com. This unit features the sturdy ratchet mechanism that helps you achieve and maintain maximum tension on your strap. It has a nice large release lever right here which disengages the ratchet when you're ready to unload, so that allows you to release the tension of the strap.The ratcheting mechanism is very easy to use.

Right now it's in the stowed or travel position, so to move it to the ratcheting position, you lift up on the release lever, put it in this middle position. That's going to allow you to ratchet which is going to allow you to take out any slack in the strap and get it tight over or around your gear, whatever it is that you're using it for. And then when you're ready to unload your gear, you take the release lever, open the ratchet all the way up, and then pull right here on the hook end, and that's going to allow the strap to feed through. That way you can loosen the tension, and you can unload your gear.Overall, it's a really nice design. It's easy to use.

Nice large ratchet mechanism gives you plenty of room right there to get your hand in there even if you have gloves on, and on the ends we have the twisted snap hooks. This is the twist design. This provides quick, secure connection to your axle strap or other anchor point. We have the built-in safety latches, spring-loaded, to help prevent accidental disconnecting, and the twisted design helps keep the strap laying flat. The strap is blue in color.

It's made from a durable polyester webbing, and then on the steel components we have that yellow decrement-plated steel design to help resist rust and corrosion. This does meet Department of Transportation standards.When it comes to dimensions, our strap measures two inches wide by seven feet long. Has a safe working load limit of 3,300 pounds, a maximum load or break strength rating of 10,000 pounds. Just keep in mind that tie-down straps must be chosen according to their safe working load limit, so the weight of your secured cargo must not exceed the combined working load limit of the straps being used.That's going to do it for today's look at the Erickson Car Tie-Down with Ratchet and Twisted Snap Hooks.