Video Transcript for Review of Durabilt Chain Binders - Ratchet Chain Binder With Grab Hooks - DU75HR

Hi, everybody. Andy here with etrailer.com. Let's take a quick look at this Durabilt Ratchet Chain Binder with Grab Hooks. Now this ratchet chain binder is equipped with two integrated grab hooks for everyday versatile cargo control. A heavy-duty ratchet binder like this is built for contractors, haulers, and drivers who need versatile gear to secure heavy loads of all kinds. This does have a safe working load limit of 7,100 pounds, and let me give you some measurements.

I'm gonna be giving you some measurements of this throughout, but let me get my tape measure here, and I think the best way to do this is go overhead here, and if you're wondering about the length of our handle from bottom to top, we're sitting right at 15 inches. So this 15-inch handle is going to give you leverage to add or reduce tension via the dual-function manual pawl lever, and this is going to be easy and safe alternative to the lever binder models that can have severe recoil, so you can switch that ratcheting direction right here as you can see. This handle does accept a padlock, I think you can see that right through there, so you can run a padlock through there to lock that into place, and then these zinc-plated, forged steel, three-eighths-of-an-inch grab hooks are gonna be rated up to G70 chain use. So it does say right here three-eighths-of-an-inch, if you can see that there. Actually, it looks like on the other side here, it will accept from five-sixteenths to three-eighths-of-an-inch, so just so you're aware of that.

These grab hooks have a flat-throated shape that's going to securely attach to your chains, and then I do have this, let me see if I can put this in the closed position here, I'm gonna screw these hooks in all the way. I wanna try to give you some additional measurements here, and it's gonna be kind of tricky. Let me go overhead again, and I'm gonna try to give you the measurement of what's called the closed length, so I'm gonna be measuring as best as I can here from center-of-hook to center-of-hook, and it's probably not gonna show up really well there for you but we're sitting right at about 23 inches or so when this is fully closed. It's gonna be more instead of center-to-hook to center-to-hook more like end-of-hook to end-of-hook on the inside there, so from inside to the end of the hook to inside, so from here-to-here, inside-to-inside, it's about 23 inches there on that closed length. And then when you have this completely extended, it's gonna be about 31 inches on the open length, it's gonna have a take-up of about eight inches.

The barrel length is right at about 10 inches. This is going to meet or exceed the FMCSA 40, CHP, CBSA, WSTDA, and DOT standards. One final note, you wanna make sure that you don't use this for overhead lifting. These load binders are designed to work as part of a complete tie-down system. The overall capacity is gonna depend on the safe working load limit of the chains that you choose as well as the capacity of the load binders themselves, so the item being tied down must not exceed the combined working load limit of the lowest-rated components in your system.

They're very durable, very strong, I think they're gonna hold up really well for you, and I think that's gonna wrap up our quick look today. I do hope that it was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy. Thank you for joining me.