Recently I borrowed a pick up truck to move a lot of small things . I have to admit that the trunk is just like a dumpster, you probably will find all kinds of garbage like stuff in it, sometimes I think I am just a hoarder! In the beginning I believed that I could pack them well, in the middle of stacking I was totally lost. When I was looking at the dump site, I was just amazed by myself, I actually did this! I said to myself that there was no way I could go ahead like this, If I went on the road with the dumpster here were what would happen: either the stockpile fell apart on the road, may or may not hit someone else or cause accidents, or before anything could happen I would be stopped by a police officer and get ticketed.
I still needed to go ahead, I could start over and try to tidy them up and tie them down or simply find something to hold them together, in a word, I need something to tie my stuff down in the trunk, and this “something” can’t be too big or too expensive. Of course in this case we don’t need big tie downs like 10,000lb ratchet strap or grade 70 binder chains, All I need is something can hold a few hundred pounds and can cover the trunk, not some serious application at all.
I dived into the tie down world for something can be used with my pick up and the tie downs may not to overkill for my situation, at first I found some 1” ratchet straps, camouflage ones, I liked these straps but they are too much in strength for me, though there were not expensive at all, for the same reason those cam buckle straps were not good choice, all I could see was something too much in strength, too little in real world use,what a piece of 1” ratchet strap could do with the huge pile such as the stuff on my truck? Small pieces need something like a net to hold them together, not tie downs. Fortunately I found this darling cargo nets , with the size 60”x84”(5′x7′) , which is a perfect match, It’s real easy to hold stuff with cargo net, just put the net on the stack, get the hooks hooked on the truck, done. Here we have to introduce the bungee cords , the essential part of the cargo net, you can use the cords separately or connected together just like cargo net. In a nutshell, the small cargo nets and bungee cords are light duty tie downs made just for the purpose of holding together and tying down small but irregular loads such as the pickup truck mess in my case. There are a lot interesting use for these cords and nets, the only limit is your imagination.