22k suicide coil. How many chains?

These were 20k each and I did them exactly like you said. 3/8 chains but Chinese binders rated at 5400.

 

The coil rack...is that yours or does it stay with the coil?
Just curious..I've never pulled steel.

 

They stay with the truck/trailer usually, only very unusual circumstances would a shipper ever provide them

 

Generally the driver/trucking company carries their own racks and dunnage for coils.

I have hauled a lot of import coils that came on their own skids/racks made of wood though. Been a long time though. Had to go way back for this photo.

 

Yours is done the way I was trained. Even though the regs only require the forward and back restraints, the company wanted there to always be an odd number of restraints for suicide coils, because one would be in the middle for straight down pull, to prevent the forward or back pulls from moving the coil in their direction depending on how strong the pull on the outside restraints were.
Usually, the first one secured was the down pull, then the rear pull as that was more important for forward movement restraint..and then the front one.
But, like the regs say, you only need enough WLL to cover load weight halved and forward and back, which would be two of the 3/8's, although kylefitzy does being up the fact that if the weakest link of the securement is the binder rated at 5,400, that doesn't qualify for the WLL requirement for a 22k coil (11k), and that would make the center chain down the deciding and qualifying WLL (16.2k) equipment requirement. (Tootsie roll commercial, 1, 2, 3......3. )