mercer transportation

Not arguing with you, just conversing. How do you do this when you have to have an inch of thread showing when secured?

 

Of you have an inch left after tightening up, that's an inch less you could have started with. On squishy loads like a vehicle on rubber air filled tires you almost always need as many threads exposed as possible. But on something with no give such as plate steel or a coil, if you pull the slack out of the chain first you won't get but a few pulls on the ratchet before its tight.

 

You chain containers over the top? Screw that. One chain on the front and back and a couple straps over the top.

 

I can believe that. Your talking about x chains from the top inside corners?

 

I normally do to but some loads there just isn't enough room for that so you gotta shorten it up. And yep sometimes you misjudge it, bottom out and gotta start over.

 

When they are butted up, I'll snake a chain through the locks and pull to the front. Do that on both sides at the joint, then one at the front and rear pulling back. A couple straps over each for good measure and its not going anywhere.