What brand straps are y’all using???

I have ten 30', and ten 35', Ancra. The 30' are now stiff. The 35' are now "fluffy and soft", if you catch my drift. But they both felt exactly the same when new.

My little straps are US Cargo Control. They're now stiff.

I ended up with Ancra because the place I bought my Crosby boomers and Peerless chains sold Ancra, so I figured they must be a quality product as well. But I'll be switching to Kinedyne. I've had these straps for almost two years now, and they're still doing great, but I just WANT Kinedyne!!! I've got a ten pack of blue ones picked out.

 

That was one complaint I go

That was one of the two biggest complaints I got, the other being almost impossible to throw the light end, almost always had to throw the tail chain over the load. I know Canam Steel use them a lot, but some of those guys have a steady diet of open web truss. They’re about the only people I know that are in love with them.

 

Try these. Changed my life.

https://www.amazon.com/Cargo-Equipment-Corp-Kinedyne-Heavy/dp/B07HJH846W

 

I advocate for milk crates personally

 

Milk crates don't fit in that area of my headache rack. It fits eight straps per stack. Bottom stack doesn't need rubber bands, because they're captured on all four sides. But subsequent stacks will come unraveled. Those rubber bands are awesome.

 

Yeah i know, i agree if you have your heart set on keeping straps in the headache rack. Even when i had a rack with doors, i just prefered straps in a milkcrate in a side compartment/sidebox

 

I can't do that. My main $500 side box that I bought on sale is now dedicated to storing twenty dollars worth of furniture blankets, and a mudflap bracket that I keep forgetting to throw away for the last three months!!!

 

Youre in good company, i still have my snowshovel from winter and accumulated dead bungees and scrap steel ive picked up from a year+ in the trough of my open rack, we wont mention whats at the bottom of my 2 stepboxes i havent cleaned for over a year

 

I'm sure you'll agree when I say it's far more important to keep all this junk organized, rather than actually remove it from the truck. You never know when you're going to need half a bungee, or a broken turbocharger VGT actuator.

 

Im certainly hanging onto far more bits of scrap wire/dirt than i ought to but i generally agree. By the way, put a 1" ratchet strap in a bag in your toolbox, changing a pancake or halfback chamber is really helped by this

(Especially discs, fighting a regular halfback is annoying but fine, the disc brake plunger is way stiffer)