I’d rather not be stuck behind them on the road—yes, that’s really duct tape.

If he’s just taping them together before securing the bundle, this might not be as bad as it looks.

Yeah I think this is actually a good idea, assuming they are going to use some ratchet straps.

It’s *Rat Shit* straps…not *Ratchet* Straps! *Rat Shit* refers to the material they were made from during WWII…or something to do with ducks.

WWll you say? Word War 2 is when people mistook duck tape for tuct tape and rat shit straps

Where do the gorillas fit into all this

Which are bigger than mouse shit and smaller than cat shit straps

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Brother you got wooshed

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You think? I’m looking at that roof and I can’t see those parallel bars there being sturdy enough to properly secure the boards. You need to secure them from motion in the direction of travel and there’s nothing for doing that. A sudden stop or acceleration, say to avoid an accident, could still send the board in the middle shooting forward or backward. Hilarity would ensue. Enough force and the weight of the boards would also just pull those bars right off. These boards should only ever be transported in the back of a truck angled from the gate to the cab roof and strapped down. It would be impossible for them to move at all in any direction. Strapping them on the roof of a passenger car should probably be illegal.

Ron Popiel could’ve lifted that highlander off the ground with duct tape.

But not a real duck tape, that’s cruel.

Unexpected BNL

NOONE suspects the Barenaked Ladies. Their primary weapons are surprise and fear, and an almost fanatical devotion to the chickety China, the Chinese chicken.

I worked at a lumber yard for a few years. We shrink wrapped the ends of some loads to keep the wood together. Duct tape would be fine too. They can get quite floppy, even in larger dimensions, which is why this was used for smaller loads rather than bands. It’s obviously not for securing the load to the trailer or in this case, the roof. So if this is to secure it to the vehicle, I agree with the title.

Hobby wood worker here, and I keep a roll of plastic wrap in my vehicle to wrap boards together before securing them down. Wrapping them on to an open truck tailgate also helps keep them from bouncing and shifting while not damaging the vehicle as well.

duct. duct tape. for the love of god it’s duct tape. it’s tape for ducts. when has a duck in its entire life ever needed tape. they don’t have thumbs

From Wikipedia: “Duct tape or **duck tape** is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene.” “During World War II, Revolite developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable **duck cloth** backing.” “Duck tape” is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899[2] and “duct tape” (described as “perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape”) since 1965.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

And yet the article is still called fucking DUCT TAPE.

Ackshully…. >During World War II, Revolite (then a division of Johnson & Johnson) developed an adhesive tape made from a rubber-based adhesive applied to a durable duck cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used to seal some ammunition cases during that period. It was only repurposed for use on ducts after the war, and then startes being called “duct tape”

And it’s not actually useful for duct work. Ducts require metalized tape.

I think it was/is used fro flex plastic ductwork. Or at least in the 90s when I was doing HVAC grunt work.

Im going to be that guy. You should read the history of the tape. It was never really used for ducts and was originally made of a canvas-like material called duck cloth. Thus making the term duck pretty accurate. The most modern iteration of the tape was made for sealing ammo boxes against water.

Also add that the vast majority of what people call duct tape shouldn’t be used on ducts. For that, you use foil tape.

It’s actually horrible tape for sealing ducts and while it has a multitude of uses, that shouldn’t be one of them. When taping ducts (particularly hot air dryer ducts) you should be using aluminum foil tape, which is more heat resistant and will stick better to galvanized metal. The original cloth based tape was made in the late 1800s by adding adhesive to duck cloth. It had many practical uses, but taping ducts wasn’t one of them. The modern grey tearable cloth tape we know today was invented by Johnson and Johnson during WW2 and was used for taping ammunition boxes shut. Once the war was over the surplus of tape came to the civilian market and was renamed duct tape because people were using it to tape air ducts, since it was the same color. And there is a brand of grey duct tape called Duck Tape, so OP’s title may actually be correct.

If the tape has fabric embedded in or backed on the adhesive, it’s duck tape. Actual _duct_ tape intended for hvac use is made from foil, not fabric.

Gaffer’s tape has a fabric base, but I wouldn’t use it on ducts. That shit’s expensive.

Gaffer tape’s also not nearly sticky enough to deal with the vibration common in hvac systems or the heat in furnace applications. It’s wonderful for sticking power cords to the ground and pulling up without leaving a residue

Yeah. I remember the sound guy at this one rock club had a sign saying “absolutely no duct tape on stage!” He bristled if you even suggested it.

There are two different kinds of tape used on ducts- both the fabric backed “duck” tape (but usually black and much better quality) and the foil tape you mentioned. Even in hvac “duct tape” refers to the fabric stuff most of the time where I’m from (may vary by location)