Video Transcript for NATM Vendor Interview: Brophy - Truck Bed Tie Downs Anchors

Hello neighbors, it's Brad here from etrailer and today we are in Oklahoma City at the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers Trailer Expo 2025, where we have quite a few of our vendors that we're gonna take a look at some of their products and some of their offerings, and I get a nice close look at them. I'm here with Brian Brophy from C.R. Brophy. Yes, C.R. Brophy Machine Works, you've had. Something synonymous with towing anything is gonna be strapping it down, and you're only as good as the tie down points to be able to do that, and you guys have options, so whether you're replacing a factory one or adding additional.

What all do you have Well, we've got several in-floor design, which are usually done by the manufacturer. You can do them yourself. It does require some removal of some of the wood flooring or even metal so that 'cause these are recess, so they'll go down into the floor. Whereas these are flush mounts, so they don't require, these don't require any boring into it. They're just a basic bolt-on.

The ones that are usually in, mounted into the floor are usually a higher rated one, and there are some larger ones than these that use carriage bolts that are five and six thousand pound rated, so if you're replacing them, you'd probably wanna stay with as close as you can to what you have. You also can use these type and put a backing plate on them, and you can get your strength way up there on any of these. This is a weld-on model. That would be a stainless steel. Again, you can use backing plates with all of these to give them more strength.

Oh yeah, if you have access to a welder, weld-on ones are great. Yeah. That's stuck. No, no. Yeah, if you don't have that welder-in that's, That's right.

I decked my dad's trailer out and added a bunch of extra tie downs because he set it up for some unique stuff of putting his golf cart on there, but when I had to use it, I was left trying to find good spots. Right. Well, I customized it for him by adding those in. Adding those. Yes, it's handy to have extra items. Oh yeah, absolutely. That's for sure. And and a lot of it comes down to is Okay, I have X amount of ratchet straps and oh, I can't make this jump across well, Right. You put another attachment point, you can so, Yeah, yeah. No, that's true actually. Huge thanks to Brian from C.R. Trophy for taking the time to show us all of their products. They're all fantastic options that you can get at etrailer.com, so take a look at those and see what might fit your needs. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, thank you, and I appreciate your guys' help about marketing our products, so thank you very much. Thank you. Yep.