FYI: choose the right winch straps and winch bars for truck winches

July 20th, 2010  Posted at   Shopping, Tie Downs, Trucking

For flatbed trucks there is one thing which is essential , the truck winch, if your flatbed doesn’t have them, you’d better get them installed then you only need winch straps to tie down loads on truck bed , you most likely will see 2” and 4” winches available and correspondingly there are 2” & 4” winch strap for the winches. Occasionally people are looking for  3” winch straps, which is not as popular as 2” & 4” winch straps but people have their use for them.

The way the truck winch and strap system works is pretty simple, the mandrel, the part into which you can insert the tie down strap, can be used to tighten the winch straps easily, thus tie the loads down pretty much by just put winch bar into the winch side hole then turn as many rounds as needed until the loads are secured properly. The winch structure is pretty simple, there is a barrel goes through the winch body, one side has a though hole and the other side has a gear with a brake, in between lies the mandrel, the winch strap can be inserted into it, close the brake on the gear will allow you the tighten the straps over the load, since the gear is only allowed to go one direction, when you untie the strap, open the brake, turn the barrel the opposite direction to pull the  strap off the load. In order to secure your load with winch straps, you will need winch bar to turn the barrel, there is no way you can operate the winch by hand, it’s not only not safe, but also not legal.

For your information, usually you can choose from 4 different kind of winch bar, the standard winch bars painted black, the chromated standard winch bars, chromated combination winch bars and combination winch bars painted half yellow. To be honest, all these winch bars are serving the exact same purpose, and it’s all about personal preference and sometimes people choose combination winch bars for specific reasons, one of them being that you can use something else with the combination winch bar, thus the word “combination” in the name.

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