etrailer | CargoSmart Recessed D-Ring Tie-Down Anchor Review

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Randy: Hey guys, it's Randy here at etrailer.com. Now of course we have tons of different cargo management options. Today we're going to be looking at a recessed ring. I like the idea of these because it allows us to have plenty of tie-downs all over our trailer, but they don't stick up where they're going to be in the way. Now, if you're using something wheeled, like the ranger we've got here, where you can just roll over them. But let's say you're trying to load a washer and a dryer, maybe a refrigerator or something that you kind of have to slide along, having connection points that stick up and over the surface of your trailer can generally cause those to hang up, then you got to kind of lift and rotate.

Having them nice and smooth like what we're going to take a look at today, really alleviates a lot of those headaches.Here you can see the recess tie-down from CargoSmart. Basically, this gives us a 1667 pound safe working load limit. And when not connected, the ring will sit flush right down in this pocket. So it's only going to come up off the surface that you're going to mount it to, by about a quarter of an inch. It has a nice matte finish to it, and everything's been coated with a clear zinc.

That's going to help to keep corrosion and things like that to a minimum, especially using them on outside utility trailers. But these can also be used in a lot of different situations. I could see the guy installing these on his dock to help tarp something down or strap down maybe a couple of kayaks. With that low profile, it's going to prevent you from tripping on it as you're trying to walk around. Can see these in enclosed trailers, mounting them down with the plywood.If you're going to go on plywood, we'll talk about that a little bit later, but we've got a backing plate that you can use for that.

And overall, it's just going to give us the convenience of a tie down point that we're not tripping over all the time. That's the biggest headache. You always want to use straps in pairs. So in this application with this ranger, we're going to put four of them on and we're going to have one on each corner, essentially give us excellent points to connect our straps to and ensure that this is going to be there when we get where we're going.It offers the circular connection point that you can see here. And that inside diameter is an inch and three eights.

So if you're using a standard ratchet strap like what we have here, or if you need something a little bit heavier and it has like the double J-hook shouldn't have any issue at all, getting these connected. Now to go along with these, we do recommend using a good set of ratchet straps. For our Polaris here, we're using a four pack of straps from etrailer, going to be 12 foot long.We've built a lot of nice features into these. We've got the keepers, so you don't have to worry about them coming loose. We've got the hook and loop here to help keep your strap nice and tidy and bundled up. As you can see, it's also going to have a nice, wider handle, rubber coated, as well as your release. The main body is pretty standard for a ratchet strap. These offer a 1200 pound per capacity strap. So kind of tie up pretty well with these.But we do have straps that offer higher capacities. If you're going to use four or six of these for larger loads, there's a nice set from Erickson available as well. I think they've got a 3300 pound capacity, which do a great job also. Now, as far as recess, tie-downs go this isn't the only one that we have available, there are plenty of them out there. There's one from Brophy, that's a rotating D-ring, it's more of a circular shape. It's a larger pocket that sits down in your trailer so you'll need a little bit larger hole in your trailer to get it to recess, but that has a D-ring in it that you kind of tilt it up and then you can rotate it.So in our situation, I like this one because we can just pull straight back. We know this is what we're going to have on this trailer. If you're unsure about it though, that one that rotates might be a little bit better option for you. Since if you're going to strap this way, you could turn it a little bit, but no matter what angle you pull on this ring amp, it's going to be nice and secure. Now, one thing you do want to be sure to keep in mind is that the hardware is not included.We'll give you a little bit more detail about what type of hardware and length of hardware, depending on your app