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What's the weight of that coil?

 

75 and change

 

Are videos allowed? I got a securement question for anyone who wants to watch. 90seconds. Easier than trying to explain with text and pics.

 

I would wrap the chain on 2 of the round spools.
I don't like pulling out on aluminum stake pockets.
I would also use a couple of straps with edge protection.

 

@basedinMN_

I like the X chains on the front. superfluous on the back, they aren't going to walk out the back

I'd wrap around the spools for the ones over the top. (or a pocket, but wrap around both sides not just one like you have). If you really want to (and are using ratchet binders) you can hook right to the bottom of the trailer frame and then up and over the top. get you more "down" with less of an angle. (you can do it with snap binders, but obviously it's hard to get the too tight/too loose business when you are just hooked to the frame)

I'd have no qualms about using straps and edge protectors. (you'll need 4 edge protectors per strap, 2 on the top, two on the bottom) with the chains.

also you can throw some dunnage on top of the plate (parallel to trailer) and throw your strap / chain over the dunange on top so you are pushing DOWN on the middle of the plate onto your dunnage onto your trailer (instead of really just from the sides since the strap chain isn't really pushing down much in the middle).

 

cant hurt to add straps with edge protectors.
Stake pockets are Sposed to be wrapped to get the wll usually. Drop hook down behind, up in front and hook back to chain. That way it’s pulling the top of the rub rail, but the bottom of the stake pocket as well.

 

I would agree, but it looks like that trailer might only have one spool per gap.
Additionally, lot of aluminum trailer brands only weld the outer top and bottom of pipe spools to the rail vs around the whole circumference on the outer weld.

 

For illustrative purposes, this is what i prefer on wide loads. "Most" aluminum trailers were not designed to be pulled outwardly, whether by winch or chain.

So i go to the frame with edge protection where necassary. Which the above is what @LoneCowboy was describing i think.

If you absolutly need to use chains, many of the other suggestions might be your best option option.

Since alot of aluminum frame rails are too thick to get your average chain hooked too. A few of the ones we had we either used pullouts on chains or had a few trailers with hook points added underneath.

Could use a 4 inch strap with J hook and chain hook end on the other. Too go to frame as well.

But thats how we prefered. When we didnt have enough support frames for the precast.

We saw more than a few rails broken from some certain drivers who wouldn't do this right. They did not work for us. We shared our trailer pool with another company and billed them alot for the damage they did to our equipment as a result.

Winch tracks torn, whole rails broke off the cross members. Broken rub rails. Broken spools.

I get sometimes you gotta pull some sketchy things to get er going. But you can really mess a trailer up quick pulling out with any force. Especially on an alluminum.

We were doing it every day so we couldn't play with it.

 

Correct on both counts

 

Was hanging out with the loggers and dump trucks on some crazy switchback dirt roads today . Went to a rock quarry up in washington to get some super sacks filled with gravel.