al, My ratchet strap was long enough for my purposes, but then again, my deck boards run at 45s from each side, so I had more options for attaching the strap and smaller distances to traverse.
You can always just tie a rope to one end of the strap and tie the other end of the rope to something solid. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081