Everything You Need to Know about Tie Down Webbing
Most of our products are made of tie down webbing, such as ratchet straps, E Track straps, endless loop straps, hunting straps, motorcycle straps, car tie down straps, tent straps and flatbed winch straps. Our tie down webbing is used to make the tie down straps to secure the cargo during transportation and serve for different application.
No matter you are transporting light weight cargo or heavy duty cargo, polyester tie down webbing is the best choice to make the tie down strap for different types of carriers, since the tie down webbing can provide very good strength with very little stretching in order to avoid the cargo movement during transportation.
Each tie down strap has a tag where clearly marked the working load limit and breaking strength of this tie down, in this way, you will be very easy to choose the strap fit for the cargo you are going to transport. Generally, the breaking strength of the tie down strap is 3 times of the working load limit, but different countries have different standards, so we provide customization service.
Why design the working load limit for the cargo is important, because you can never forecast what will happen on the road and we design the working strength of the strap for you is to provide the maximum protection to your cargo and motorists on the road. There maybe a sudden brake, a sudden lane change or other unpredictable event happen next minutes and you need to do all you can do to ensure safety.
Some people will ask, why you create both working load limit and breaking strength for the tie down strap? Breaking strength only show you the maximinum value of webbing is going to break, but this is not safe for users when they use the strap to secure their cargo. The working load limit is great for the transporters to withstand the sudden the force that may cause the strap break, the load shift, or the cargo fall down from your trailer. If you use the tie down strap that is rated for the weight of your cargo, it will help you to decrease the risk of damaging the strap, loads falling down, etc.
How Should I Know the Length of Tie Down Webbing that I Need?
A common and very effective method of measuring the length of tie down webbing is use string, a fishing line to wrap around the cargo and then you can measure the length of the string, this is the length of the tie down webbing you will need. We also suggest you to buy the tie down strap a bit longer than the length of string, since when you use the strap to secure the cargo, having enough length of webbing will be better than lack of webbing length.
If you are the professional flatbed truck driver or professional mover, we suggest you to buy the tie down strap with extra length, since your transporting business will have various size of cargo and serve for different application, longer strap will be great for you to have more business chance.
Some customer like to order custom made tie down strap in specific colors in order to distinguish the length of webbing, so that when they are looking for the proper tie down webbing, no need to waste too much time to reading the numbers on the tag. Such as you can purchase the tie down strap 12 foot long in yellow, 20 foot long in red, and 36 foot long in green.
Different Types of Tie Down Webbing
Polyester webbing is the best choice to make cargo control strap for most application that the flatbed driver, professional trucker and mover serve for, since this material has a great feature of enough strength and low stretch. Polyester tie down strap is great to use outdoors, since this material is water resistance, UV resistance and against the extreme weather, so the tie down webbing made in this material can last longer service life than other material.
Seatbelt webbing has the similar feature like the polyester webbing to against the outdoor element and this webbing has a very similar webbing weave like the seatbelt inside the vehicle. But the seatbelt webbing is not designed for safety purpose.
Cordura Sleeve Webbing is designed as the protection of the tie down webbing, this webbing is sewn around the tie down strap to protect the webbing against the sharp edge of the cargo. Customers who purchase 2 inch tie down straps use the cordura sleeve a lot to extend the lifespan of the strap.
Different Size of Tie Down Webbing
1 inch polyester webbing is used to make the 1 inch tie down strap which is used to secure the light weight cargo, such as motorcycle, UTVs, ATVs or for professional movers to secure the load in the moving van. Our 1 inch tie down webbing is designed with different breaking strength and working load limit and our heaviest duty 1 inch polyester webbing is 6,600lbs to provide you enough tie down strength.
2 inch polyester webbing is the widely used size of tie down webbing to make the straps to secure the ATV, UTV, motorcycle, furnitures, etc. The 2 inch tie down webbing we provide also in different working strength, from light duty to heavy duty, you can customize the 2 inch polyester tie down webbing according to your specific needs.
3 inch polyester webbing is mainly used for making the 3 inch ratchet straps and 3 inch winch straps to secure the cargo at the back of flatbed trailer. This size of polyester webbing should never used to tie down the light weight cargo at the back of pickup truck, 3 inch polyester tie down webbing is designed to secure the heavy duty cargo for the industry application.
4 inch polyester webbing is used to making 4 inch tie down strap or 4 inch winch strap to secure the heaviest duty cargo at the back of flatbed truck, they are extremely heavy duty to tie down most of the heaviest cargo in the industrial application.
Why Polyester Webbing can be The Best Tie Down Webbing?
Securing the cargo and driving on the road, you will never know what will happen next, you may face the extreme weather, such as extreme cold, extreme hot, heavy wind, rainy, snowy, you may face sudden event, such as sudden brake, sudden lane change, the throwing object on the road, all these circumstances and events are testing the durability of the tie down webbing.
For the tie down strap, polyester webbing is the weakest part of the strap, so buying qualified tie down webbing is the most important things to improve the service life of tie down strap. Also, using corner protectors are another important factors to extend the lifespan of the strap, the corner protectors can prevent the sharp edge of the cargo to damage the tie down strap.
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Any Difference Between Cargo Securement Tie Down Webbing and Recovery Tow Strap Webbing?
The material of cargo securement tie down webbing is polyester webbing and the material of recovery tow strap webbing is nylon webbing. As the material of cargo securement straps, they are not allow to have too much stretch and must have enough stretch. Polyester webbing is strong enough with little stretching to hold the cargo in place during transportation.
Different from the polyester webbing, nylon webbing has very great strength with great stretching which can recover the stuck vehicle from the snow, sand, deep water, etc from the initial movement. Stretching is a very good feature when recover the vehicle from the bad situation.
So, never use the recovery tow strap to do the tie down job, because the recovery tow strap webbing has larger stretching than tie down strap webbing, if you use them to secure the cargo during transportation, there will be a huge risks to damage the webbing, making the loads fall of the truck, and even cause injury to other motorists on the road.
For the same reason, you can not use the tie down webbing to recover the stuck vehicle, since this webbing does not have stretch and when it try to pull the vehicle from the situation, the webbing will break and the vehicle or even the driver will get injuried.
How to Store Polyester Tie Down Webbing?
When we talk to the storage of polyester tie down webbing or the tie down strap, we must keep them in the dry environment, aways from the moisture, since the mold and mildew will decrease the working ability of tie down webbing, like the strength and durability. Also before you store the webbing or the strap, you need to organized them, do not put them like mess and leave them away from the things that has sharp edges.
Although the using environment are always outdoors and under the sunlight, you should always keep in mind that when the tie down webbing or strap is not working, you need to keep them in a cool place, since UV rays will damage the webbing, as you can always see the webbing is color fading.
Proper store the polyester webbing and tie down strap will benefit you and save cost, because keeping then properly will last long their service life to support your transportation business.
How Do I know If My Tie Down Strap is Damaged?
The tie down strap is consist of the tie down webbing and different hardware according to the different request. In most cases, the tie down webbing is the weakest part that will become damaged during use., especially you are transporting the cargo with sharp edge.
There is only one way and also the best way to find weather your tie down strap is in good condition, that is you need to inspect the tie down webbing before and after every use and see if there is any tears, cuts, debris, mold or mildew, or color fading.
Does Weather Affect the Working Ability of Tie Down Webbing?
Weather will not affect the working ability of the tie down webbing, if you follow our tips to store and maintain the tie down webbing or strap.
What’s the Longest Strap You can Make?
We are in the business of custom made tie down strap, so no matter how long you want your strap to be, we can make it for you. Generally, customer purchase the tie down strap between 20-100 feet as the cargo strap.
How to Clean the Tie Down Strap?
Normally, we don’t recommend our customer to wash the tie down webbing if there is not too much dirty. During your use, the stains and dirt will be washed by rain, and you just need dry them after they gets wet.
How Many Colors of Tie Down Webbing do you have?
We have various colors of tie down webbing in stock for your choice, such as Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Red, CAMO, Black, White, etc. But, you can custom any webbing color you want by contact our sales expert and submit your request in the below form.
