Oversized precast

Stack of double ts on the left, load bearing wall on the right with a frame with two pivot points to keep trailer flex from hurting it so much. 4 straps on each frame. Total of 8. That was about 100-110k total.

 

Pre cast is supposed to be load bearing aint it? "Ignoring for the moment the small Manhole infrastructure pipe precasters up the road...

 

True.. but some more than others. I just know thats how it gets refered too. I think its relative. Thats what the drivers call it and, the crew at the site so. Idk. I just gotta get it there prefferably in one piece

 

So, question.. am I 'kinda' right? When I hauled that for United Precast it was a muddy barn in Marengo. Tim and Jenny may have bailed on that. Was I 'kindof' correct?

Remember years ago, when I posted in God Knows What thread, that my load 'hopped' coming up in CLE... had to pull over in a SCHOOL cutoff... and the wife... rocked it... more dunnage, more straps. The wheelchair guy in CLE (for the underground thing ?!?) accepted the load. One time I'm glad she was on board. I'm no flatbedder, but that's what they sent me with. Told me the 'tripod' was secure... yeah, nope. Many posts about that.. thus ended my open deck life, haha! Tanks in summer, boxes now. KUDOS to y'all. Rebar tied to a tripod, all we had. Wife 'decked' it up when the load hopped. No chains (we had some, BOL said nope..) and dunnage of a LOT.. poor girl climbed up and cinched it with ... some 5k J'hooks.

Wasn't my forte. Hate admitting (and owning) my failures... but I do.. and always will.

Boxes in boxes anymore for me.

 

Oh yes, you were. and that reminds me, we had to rebind all the chains holding the frames in place. The driver who took it was nearly 7 foot tall and needed me to crawl under to get at some of them. Im only 5'9". Of course he was the guy that warned me about all this stuff and showed me how to not destroy the delicate stuff.

With 80k sitting up high like that, its never good to be able to undo the frame binders with your hand. Heck some werent even locked, which is what tipped the guy off in the first place.

The days i get a mixed steel load are the days i question my sanity. 60ft channels in the middle. Everything around it taller, add dunnage take pressure off other things, screw it, use every chain i have choking it and crossing this and that, nothing's even, the angle irons are bending, hand stack those so the thin flimsy stuff isnt screwed in the attempt to secure the giant iron planks of death. All under the august las vegas sun at high noon. Those are the days Boxes in Boxes sound real good.

Oh but we made it easy for you, this side is one stop, this side is another. "Oh fantastic, i get to resecure half the load in phoenix at noon too."

I bought knee pads after i kneeled down and burned myself through my jeans. Quick lesson there lulz.

 

Guy I was 'following' (um nope) a few months back..... Yeah, he sure got some escorts (finally...) the po'po you can see, waiting to turn left. I just continued forward and took and alternate; didn't need all that; but from what I saw on the way 'back' ... he was still there... hemmed up. Kudos, y'all. I have NO clue how that flew without ANY signage, beacons, escorts, and probably no permits?!?
I was just a measley 'box' guy.. waiting to make a right (don't even get me started on the button hook or jug handle... that thread is dead, haha!) I just KNEW that.. NOPE.

 

Sheesh... wow. I so madly respect y'all. The dang tripod was ONE offload.. in the CLE subway, and dang if the wife didn't do what I should have. Hats off.....

I got a 'bead' on my 'boxes in boxes' company. Pays decent; good bennies and retirement, and way less risk. I never REALLY learned all the open deck stuff... shoulda woulda coulda..the tank I was running (on paper of course) consumed oh... 18 hours? (well wife had her permit (only) and helped... on the straightaways) .....

See?!?!? You KNOW what I mean about those 'rebar' screws.. HOW THE HELL could you do that lopsided, without moving the 'mount' point? After they take HALF off? Just wow. Kudos, bro. I'll keep my paycut and life, LoL.

 

Yeah thats some major over hang.

Just at a glance thats 10 dimensions of nope I cant comprehend. Granted im sure theres some state somewhere that might let you do that, but yeah. That be mighty suspicious. Thats a little more than overhang, that be a steel baseball bat.

 

Yeah half off a tripod is asking for a , what dimension are we in moment. We gonna rebalence or you can keep all this.

Kinda reminds me of the construction crew that got a forklift to take off 60footer rebar. No beam on the forks. Just went over with a set of forks, i ran fast..... Fortunately he ran out of lift before the ends even left my deck.

And think to myself "no, no ,no he isnt, no he couldnt" and started backing up... Fortunatly, it flopped off and didn't damage the truck. But oh but then to see him try to pick it up and drag it some more was just some crazy ill never unsee.

Then two side by side, then drug it across my air lines, "thanks guys" and at least got a few feet back before flop onto the ground. "No i wont be sitting in my cab" or standing near these two idiots. Normally a crane does this stuff, or a big lift with a tube steel. But nope don't worry ill get it.

 

That is a 70 ft load and I am surprised that any pipe yard would load it on anything but a stretch.
Most pipe yards I hauled out of would not load over 60 ft on a 53 Or a 48 in western Canada the rule is 1/3 from axle center back. That load is 35 or more behind axle center.