Correcting Ratchet Strap Over-Looping

wasting more time let's get into today's video all right so you guys are probably more than familiar with your basic ratchet strap and this thing it confuses and confounds a lot of people and great this is a great start so so the very first thing is we've got this one over looped on itself and you can see where I can't get anywhere with this strap right now simply because it's looped through the ratchet and then back again and so here you go right out of the gate we got one of the most basic beginner mistakes that I can think of our confined and so we're gonna start it all over again let's say you're having problems and you can't get your ratchet strap to work so this is your basic ratchet strap here's your hook on the end here's your tightening mechanism and here's your gearing to tighten everything up so a ratchet strap works pretty simply as you put you place the the nylon webbing or cord through the ratchet and you can tighten it down right I don't think I need to cover that in too much depth but how if you get it pulled apart like this how do you get it pulled put back together the right way well in my world there's a forward and then there's a backward okay this is the way I teach my guys the forward way is when you're facing it away from you you're tightening if tightening back toward you so the actual tightening action comes back toward you you notice I'm not going I can't go all the way over so the easiest way to get this set so you can reset it reboot it is to get it so that the center is dead stead horizontal and then we're just going to fish this right straight through the ratchet so let's go let's do this one more time yeah yeah Frankie Frankie just walked in so Frankie what's some of the typical beginner mistakes you see guys making with ratchets reps I'm covering the basics for these guys I do it before you put you first put your piece in through and then back out a lot some people don't I can't see I just said that's the wrong way to do it why do you do it through and then back up because I wonder where I can pull it oh yeah show me what you do and I want to show these guys what I do is this this was this actually was Frankie's ratchet strap we gotta get it over here a little bit I go through yup and then I go back out that way if I'm locked on to something here yeah I can just I can be in front of the ratchet deal here as I'm