Lumber Goes Through Cab

Short story. I was involved with a company that actually tested for steel coil protection. You can't afford the bulk head that stops 50k lbs. They built one that stopped them. But it's much cheaper and simpler to just keep them were you load them. The factory trailer mounted "bulk heads" some have ratings. Probably great for lumber. Truck frame mount normally will just help gift wrap the body.

Now logging, I could see the benefits of the one you posted. There is no one size fits all, but none of them give me the warm comfort feeling.

 

I watched a pup trailer rolled over, and lifted from a ditch/woods. Coil chained to the deck. Used coil to lift it. Sat trailer back on the road with a rotator. Driver did not get a securement ticket.

 

On heavy rescue and highway to hell most of the loads stayed put when trucks flipped .. is there different securement rules down south ??

 

Laziness?

 

Most of my 43 years plus has been skateboarding. Through out the years as I have age, I’ve seen the younglins, do circles around me on securements. More power to them, I’ll spend the extra time and look over my securement over and over especially on steel fabrication loads. I know when I leave the plant, IM GOOD, peace of mind.

 

More weight. My experience running the NW and Western Canada was that they tend to watch and enforce securement more than they appear to in other areas of the country. I still can’t get used to seeing trucks loaded 3 or more units high with all their straps over the top running around out east.

 

Wasn’t like that before. You can have 3 tiers high, no belly wraps required. Now depends what jurisdiction your in(depends how savvy the cop is). Green lumber is a piece of cake to strap, dryer lumber has is lighter so you get more volume(more units) more securements.

 

Technically it’s straps over 2 units or 6ft, whichever is more. But most who haul maxi loads will strap the bottom 2 no matter what just to make the load more stable.

 

Did you ever haul dry pine out of Collins Pine in Chester? We used to load there and come down 32 to Chico. If it was surfaced on four sides that stuff was slick. We had truck and trailers with 24 foot beds. We'd put four 12s down on the truck, double gut them, put 2 sixteens on top of the 12s, and put a 12 or 16 peaker on with four or five wrappers. The trailer usually took two sixteens and two 12s down, double gutted, 2 sixteens on top and a 16 foot peaker with four or five straps. That's a lot of rigging but if you didn't put all that on there that pine would move and once it started to move you had problems.
We had winch to winch straps which is the only way to go if you're serious about hauling lumber.
With a load like I described we were usually right at fourteen feet high and just a bit over weight.

 

I hauled quite a bit of lumber. I always added an extra piece of dunnage in the front to get some bow when I strapped it down. Every single time, without fail, the forklift driver asked me why I did that. When I explained, they always said they'd never seen anyone do that before. Yellow pine is especially slippery. This guy is a day cab local that probably hauls ten of these a week for the last ten years, and he got lazy.

Strap for the wreck, not the ride.