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Anyone got an easy way to store straps in a toolbox? Tired of grabbing one and pulling a cluster out. Worse than a box of bream hooks.
Dave
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Roll 'em into a quick ball(each) before you throw 'em in the toolbox.
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BigDave39355; Good evening to you sir, I hope this finds you well. We've got a fair number of 1" and larger webbing ratchet straps at work in our various vehicles. Mostly we roll them up - after removing any knots tied into them by the drivers........ The smaller ones would be good candidates to put a heavy elastic band around too if that's an option. Hopefully that was useful to you or someone out there this evening. All the best to you this fall and good luck on your hunts too. Dwayne
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Roll up and put in Ziploc bags...
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Take them apart. Roll them up like tp around the hook then wrap a bungee ball around it.
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Roll up and put in Ziploc bags... MojoHand; Good evening to you sir, I hope you're doing acceptably well this warm Saturday evening. My eldest daughter and I do that with our tow straps in our 4x4's and I'm sure your idea would translate well to ratchet straps with smaller bags...... good idea sir! Thanks for the idea and all the best to you this fall. Dwayne
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Only takes a minute to roll them up neatly then....... Use rubber band or... Velcro strap or... Stuff in old sock or... Masking tape
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Bungees with the balls on the ends work good, or a bit of duct tape or masking tape will hold them neatly if the bungee is not handy.
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I usually wrap them around the ratchet and leave the tail about 18"-22" longer and wrap that crossways around the whole shebang. They will usually stay wrapped pretty good unless they are in a box and you are digging around in it. The big ones leave them open so they are longer and wrap the same way.(Less bulk)
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Anyone got an easy way to store straps in a toolbox? Tired of grabbing one and pulling a cluster out. (WORSE THAN A BOX OF BREAM HOOKS.) I will have to remember that analogy. Mississippi folk like bream fishing better than folks from tennessee, except for me. I tie bluegill flies and jigs, I tied some yesterday. A mustad 3366A large eye hook is 10 times worse than regular hoooks. Sorry got sidetracked,, I put my ratchet straps in a small bag. For the ones I use for hauling the dirtbikes I put them in a 5 gallon bucket and hang the hooks on the rim of the bucket. I use 12 in all to haul 4 bikes. The bucket works great, I just keep 2 in the small bag and that stays in my truck.
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I'll look for some of the bungees with balls on them, that may be the ticket.
And yes, love some bream fishing, nothing like getting on a bed of shellcrackers.
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roll of electrical tape zip ties masking tape rubber bands old socks
Any questions?
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Sir, how do you manage to be such a gentleman on this forum? So many of the members here could learn a lot about decency with their posts by taking a lesson from you! Thank you for your consistent decency and respect that you show.
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Ingrng; Thank you for the kind words sir, I do honestly appreciate them and will do my best in future posts to deserve them.
Honestly there are many times in life - especially dealing with family - that I've wished for an "edit" button or to be able to hit an imaginary backspace bar.
In the flesh I'm very, very human to be sure and struggle with my humanity mightily some days.
Thanks for the kind words though sir and encouragement - again I appreciate it.
All the best to you this fall and good luck on your hunts.
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Exactly the response that I expected from you.....................as always, you definitely show politeness and respect..........something that is lacking so much these days with the internet......It is far too easy to snip and snipe at one another in ways that would get a person beat half to death if done in person. You sir are a class act!
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being in the IT field, we use a lot of velcro straps. i use the kind that have a slit in them to allow the strap to be looped. i loop it and attach it to the ratchet so its there all the time. them i roll them up and wrap the velcro strap around it and its a nice little ball.
that said, i usually find my straps in a tangled mess because my boys don't spend the time to do what i have shown them how to do 100 times. funny how that works.
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Exactly the response that I expected from you.....................as always, you definitely show politeness and respect..........something that is lacking so much these days with the internet......It is far too easy to snip and snipe at one another in ways that would get a person beat half to death if done in person. You sir are a class act! Truer words never spoken. I'm a big fan of Dwayne. For a handful of years I did moving on the side, and as such, had dozens of straps to use on jobs. All went into their own 'strap bag', individually wrapped around the ratchet, and heavy-duty rubber banded. On jobs, after coming off furniture/whatever, they were hung on hooks inside the truck. No one hates dicking around with tangled messes of straps more than me, especially when time mattered, so I made sure they were always properly stored in between use.
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Roll them up and stack in an old milk crate.
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Roll em up, store in 30 cal ammo box.
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