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That's a good idea. I was told to wrap the excess chain and bungee so I can only assume it's legal. I've not had a problem with that but I don't chain very often either. And when I do, I use my two ratchet binders before I'll touch one of my snaps.

But coincidentally, the load I loaded yesterday for Monday (in Whitby ATM with a different trailer waiting to load billets at Gerdau):

 

Yes.

 

Are they counterweights for a crane or some other machine? Looks like you've got foul weather over there atm.

 

They are! For cranes as far as I know. It was raining yesterday but it wasn't too horrible.

This morning it's a little wet but overall nice.

 

88k lbs of goodness.

 

I've never seen anything like that. Thats pretty neat.

Thanks,

Hurst

 

It would want to be. Before the company crashed he order a lot of new trucks but couldn't take delivery, each with a 200-250 tonne pull like that at $20k each apparently. To relate, most thing here are about twice as expensive as you pay

 

I can imagine,.. do they have to order things like that from over seas or dont you guys have any manufacturers there who make/sell things like that?

Here in the USA, even though I have never seen it,.. I'm sure if someone had a need for that,.. it could be made or purchased somewhere here within a reasonable time frame.

Hurst

 

Yes that is engineered manufactured and fitted here. There are plenty of places here that manufacture all sorts of things but as we all know it's becoming a world market and it gets harder for these companies to compete against cheap oversea products.

 

So true.

I have a Fontaine sliding 5th wheel on mine and the adjusters for the jaws broke letting the king pin rock and knock on the 5th wheel.

I talked with a few people and decided it would be easier and the same price to just order a new 5th wheel. I was under the assumption that Fontaine was an American company and made everything here. I discovered that is not true. Like you said,.. everything is becoming a global manufacturing base. My brand new Fontaine 5th wheel came with a stamp on the front of it that read "Made in China". I was pretty upset over that.

I had it done last April and so far its been doing very well. I'm still not happy about where it was made though.

Hurst