The easy way to use a ratchet strap.
It took me quite a while to find this out after struggling for years, and I was amazed the other day when a guy came to collect a car on his dollie that he didn’t know it either, and he was using ratchet straps all day every day.
Rather than putting the end through when the strap ratchet is open like this.
Close the mechanism up and then slot it through then you can pull on the short end to tighten it up prior to using the ratchet, this also makes it easier to undo as there isn’t so much strap wound onto on the drum. Ian