Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

@God prefers Diesels in more ways than one. Nice load securement and deer suicide prevention

 

I've got a spare one now, decided to make two new chains the hard way. Everything with the load is fine. Light load used the 3/8ths,,,,,,,,,, found the weakest link.

But yeah them multi machine loads on deck can be a pain. Good work making it happen.

 

Loads like that consider choking individual layers, not going to say that would have prevented the shift, but it may have minimized it

 

I was going to post earlier, but then Bambi kinda went and answered my question. When choke strapping, I've wondered if having the terminal ends "under" vs "over" made a difference in choking it during forward movement. Any time I go under like you did, I have a hard time getting the ends "twang" tight due to the sharp angle, but going over I can. Under seems to squeeze the bundles together fine (maybe even better), but doesn't seem to do much for downward force. Either way, having them obviously served the purpose of preventing your load from hitching a riding in the sleeper.

 

When I choke, I'm only looking for squeeze force. Going over or under depends on how wide the load is. If it's near the edges of the deck, and I go over, I'll get a lot of downforce, but not a lot of squeeze. So in that case, I go under. If the load is more narrow, I can go over, and get some good squeeze and some downforce for free.

Check out that load of structural steel I hauled last load, and you can see a mixture of both.

 

Anyone in ND and wanna help me out tomorrow ? haha

 

If you have winches on both sides, put the hook in the slot of the winch and you can pull it tight from both sides.

 

I've got some old straps I cut the hooks off of for that purpose. Yes, it still works with the hooks, I just like it better. Plus we get credit for recycling strap hooks.

 

I wish

 

You know it's funny you say this now, because when I saw your load, I remembered a similar one I had that did the same thing. That top bundle would have been too high for lumber header, but I was thinking of it when I saw your posted pics and was hoping you didn't have any issues...looks like my hope for you worked, because it's still on the trailer.

I could see they weren't greasy bars, but same concept, it's almost impossible to get those middle bundles to have the same friction applied that you get from the edge bundles with direct contact and belly wrapping probably helped keep it on, but it couldn't stop it from moving, so bravo on the good securement that held even with the hard brake.