What do you call the Bulkhead (edited since I know now)

I don’t know who told you it needs to have two chains... that doesn’t make any sense to me. One chain, with each end wrapped around a spool on the trailer, and hooked to itself (as seen in the above video), is the only way I’ve ever done it or seen it done.

 

You can get creative with your bulkheads... Here I have a concrete block that I use as a counterweight for my moffett in the winter, doubling as a bulkhead:





And here I am using my moffett fork extensions as a bulkhead (It’s actually on the tail but you get the idea):

 

Confusion by whoever told you this.

From the older "trucker Bible" it used to be written 1 chain for ever 10' length with bulkhead. If no bulkhead was built, 2 chains in first ten feet, then 1 chain for every additional 10ft of length

When an article of cargo is not blocked or positioned to prevent movement in the forward direction, and the item is longer than 10 ft in length, then it must be secured by two tiedowns for the first 10 ft of length, and one additional tiedown for every 10 ft of length, or fraction thereof, beyond the first 10 ft. An example of this is provided below. If an article is blocked, braced or immobilized to prevent movement in the forward direction by a headerboard, bulkhead, other articles that are adequately secured, or other appropriate means, it must be secured by at least one tiedown for every 10 ft of article length, or fraction thereof.

Cargo Securement Rules | FMCSA

 

Yes, between what I see at sale sites (even if steel, but bolt-on) and the pic you posted (the fixed, not timber), absolutely different rigidity.

Thanks

 

omg, that epiphany moment of "OOOHHHH!"

It didn't register at seeing that pic, nor did memory register of all the flatbed rigs in the tow yard where I assumed that stack of lumber was for any odd load rigging, like anti-roll rails for pipe er sumpin', hell I don't know, lol.

Nope, it didn't register until 2 hours ago on 40 while looking at trucks going down the road, when I saw a flatbed trailer with a timber bulkhead.

Must be my age.
Or, it was 1976-'1997 !!

Hey thanks for the knowledge, I may not be a trucker, but I'm with you out here every day in a rollback, and very often I get called to a semi wreck, be it with the skid-steer, or my wrecker side-puller is needed to suck mangled tandems out from the trailer, or to recover the many separated yet full semi cabs, or engines & trannies, reefers, dollies, whatever, then suck it up onto my deck to get it to the yard.

More knowledge is good, no matter how old I get.