Chaining down Loads.

I criss cross one or two chains on coils shotgun. Suicide you are not allowed to criss cross. I use one binder per chain. Ratchet binder is what you are describing. No; I attache the binder to the chain, not the rubrail. Some co's tell you to put the hook in the inside of the state pocket and around one spool. Others say go around 2 spools and put the hook facing out on the chain.

 

I'm assuming you're referring to placement of the coils on the trailer? Which way is shotgun and which is suicide?

 

Suicide is the eye of the coil facing the sides, shotgun is the eye facing fore and aft.

 

Thanks, Native Dancer! I learn something new here every day. I'm not sure I've ever seen a coil loaded shotgun. Does the driver have a choice how the coil is loaded?

 

Sometimes you do. It depends on the customer. If they don't have a dock and use a fork truck they want the hole to the side. Crane unloads can take it off any way. I personally like to load suicide. Cargo should never move, but it is the drivers job to make sure it doesn't. Personally if I were to lose one I would rather it go through the cab and kill me than come off and land on a carload of kids.

 

Test for ya ducks... coil loaded eye to the sky???

 

It's interesting that you mention that, Tarps. There are very few trucks that I'm reluctant to drive behind... but flatbeds hauling steel coils are one of them. I guess it comes from being around the steel industry in my younger days. Improperly handled, those things can be nasty.

 

It would be interesting to see how you secure it, but more so how you'd load and unload it. And I have no clue what it's called...

 

Most of the time it will come forward or off to the side. You are probably safer behind a truck. Kind of like being stuck on a track. Run towards the train so when it hits the truck it doesn't take you out as it hurdles forward....