Transporting your stuff with a truck or car? These 6 ratchet straps make it easy to keep all kinds of equipment and cargo on ...

A ratchet lets you loosen or tighten a bolt without much hassle. Its mechanism consists of a pawl and a toothed wheel, and ...

A common ratchet from your garage may work wonders for tightening hard to reach bolts on whatever everyday projects around the house. However, those over at [Chronova Engineering] had a particularl… ...

Should you always push the handbrake button? People say don’t yank the hand brake without pushing the button. Let’s pull back ...

Carrying a standalone ratcheting tourniquet can be a hassle if you’re not wearing duty gear or carrying a dedicated first aid bag. Which is where we circle back to the Parabelt.

Ancra Cargo’s OverDrive Ratchet Cap has been re-engineered with an enhanced ratcheting mechanism that features rotating pawls, an easy-access grease fitting and quicker installation onto most ...

Both advertise a 5-degree swing. I've played with them both, and it took more like 15 degrees of backward motion to reset the ratchet mechanism, yielding another five degrees of fastener movement.

By contrast, the Sixth Wheel Ratchet shown here costs 40 bucks. Even if you run a fleet with thousands of trailers, equipping every one with this gizmo has got to be ultra cheap insurance.

Wisely, SK paired the 216-position ratchet mechanism with a unique open I-beam body that increases the wrench's cross section and load distribution without increasing its weight.