Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties – Item of the Day
Special Note – These are a top ten useful item on my homestead and today the 8-inch & 12 inch versions are on sale in the 6 dollar range. At this price they are cheaper than the shitty ones that are not re-useable. If you don’t have some of these, bluntly you are wrong. Get em while they are cheap.
I can’t directly link to the 12 inch option, because Amazon is being stupid about it, you can just change the option from the main page for them if you want those.
Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is something I feel no one should be without. They just do too much, for too little cost to not have some. They are Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties and at only six bucks and some change for 100 pieces they are a steal.
Get a few bags and do the following. Make up bundles of about 20-30 a bundle. Just use one tie to hold the rest together. Put a bundle in your BOBs, put one in every glove box of your vehicles, put some in your garage where you can see them and just grab them, etc. Heck I keep half a dozen as part of my EDC, you don’t even notice them in a cargo pocket until you need them.
The key is the releasable part! We even use these for keeping gates closed on our low fences for our ducks. I keep a few tied on top of various fences all over the property, so if you need one there is always one close by. They are very strong and stay flexible a long time. They tend to last about 1.5-2 years if in direct sun before becoming brittle. Otherwise they seem to last forever.
I use them for many other things as well. I use them to tie up new seedling trees for say a month until they stiffen up. Since you can remove and reuse them it is cheaper than plant tape. I use them to tie 4 large hog panels into a square and make an on the fly animal pen. There is no limit to how useful these things are.
Since I first started recommending these they have added a lot of different sizes. They now have them in 6, 8, 10 and 12 inch lengths. So the choice is yours. But the 8 inchers and 12 inchers are on sale today; keep in mind they are reusable and releasable and two 8s make one 16 easy enough.
So just how versatile are cable ties in general, okay I am going to tell you a story, I am NOT SUGGESTING THAT you do it, it is just what happened. Many years ago when I was in the Army I had two friends, Brad and Dean. Dean was the one that owned a truck and he was a “character” to say the least.
Dean would just toss Brad or I the keys anytime we needed his truck. One day we wanted to run to the PX, so Dean tosses Brad the keys. In we jump and to the PX and back we go, beer run of course. Brad is a typical guy from Southern Louisiana so he bends speed limits till they break. We get back an Dean says, “oh yea, I should of told y’all to take it easy until the new tie rod gets here”.
Brad and I get down and look and see that fricken Dean had used 4 tie wraps to hold a broken tie rod together. As in it had broken in two and he tie wrapped it back together. For those that don’t know, the tie rod holds the front searing brackets to the frame so you can turn. Kind of an important function! So Brad almost kills Dean but later we laughed about it, because when you are 20 you are stupid!
That has always stuck with me and while I would not replicate it as a “temporary repair”, I would replicate it with great care and driving very slowly to get a vehicle to safety in a similar situation. Trust me and if you don’t keep cable ties in your preps, start doing so and the best ones for flexibility and usefulness are Monoprice Releasable Cable Ties.
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P.S. – I have brought this item back a many times, the reason is simple, if I made a list of the top 5 most useful things on my homestead, I am sure it would change over time, but these would never fail to make the list.
Hi jack
Awhile ago you talked about LONG tie wraps.
Remember where you got them? I know you can put shorter ones together,but the fewer connections the better.
Thanks kaiser 06
Most of the releasable ones suck. The only other ones that were longer and didn’t suck are now discontinued.
Cable ties are truly one of the greatest things to have available to us in our lifetimes. I didn’t know these releasable ones existed. Thanks for that.
man I didn’t know that either! That is awesome.
I managed to get a bag of the longer ones before they were discontinued. They work great! Before this time I was going through the disposables, using them for a week or two and then cutting them away. Now I can save these ties for another use.
The large ones are still available on amazon. You can see the 12″ here. I bought a bag in aug and they are great. Been using them in my hydroponics towers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004C4U3KM/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This product changed my life!
Take one zip tie and put about 20 zip ties on it. Cut the end of the main zip tie so you can pull the other zip ties off that end. It is an easy way to store them in a bag. It would look like this llllllllllll with a zip tie across the top going through all the horizontal ones. With no end on the vertical zip tie.
Jack,
I live about 5 mins away from Monoprice. All of there items are pretty top notch. I have these as well as a 30qt cooler as well as other electrical items and so far all are flawless!!
just grabbed 10 packs today… good tips on different uses… will give a few to my kids for their preps
Well crap. I hate that I missed the $4 deal.
Ironically, I just had a project this evening where I needed to use about half of my last package and figured that I needed to order more. So I got it in with the alternate size.
If you have a farm, or you just DO anything in your life, you need these ties. Get ’em!