Coils Question

Thanks for posting that CAXPT.

I never knew that hooking it like fig.5 cuts the WLL.

I have always hooked my chains like fig. 5. I guess i'll have to start looping it around.

 

You're welcome. That's why we're supposedly here....to help each other get it right and keep our CDL's clean.

Personally, I prefer not to hook it like that, but as I've had to learn, with this steel Fontaine stepdeck, and it's limited securement options around the wheel wells and the upper deck, sometimes you have to do what you don't like to do..... but at least I know it's legally rated if I have to do it on this trailer. It just doesn't count for all trailers so knowledge of exact equipment is necessary for us in our job.

 

I have a Fontaine aluminum flat. I don't like running the chains around the spools because it creates sharp edges on the edge of the deck surface that cuts into my bungees when I tarp.

I do it if necessary to properly secure a load but I try not to. I keep a file handy to smooth out any of the sharp spots.

 

Just a question, do you leave a large loop that lays the chain over the deck, or do you do like I do, and hook the chain tight to the spool? Usually the damage I've seen that sounds like yours is because the hook and the strain on it digs it into the deck. Maybe leaving a little distance would alleviate that. I usually do it tight, because when I tighten with the snap binders, I like for there not to be any play to pull out, forcing a false tighten followed by readjusting the chain and binder. Just a thought... maybe with more chain in the loop there would be more play and less stress on the deck?

 

My reference was to using the flat part of the rub rail, not the spools or pockets.

See a lot of straps hooked to and wrapped around the space between the spools or pockets.

 

That makes sense. I have always ran the hook through the stake pocket and hook it back on the side of the stakepocket even if I run it around a spool.

Looks like I have to quit doing it that way. I'll try your method.

 

What are you guys calling a spool? First thing I'm thinking is the spool/ratchet is for the straps.

Are you two referring to the stake pocket? I don't like running my chain there as there is always slack to take up after running a few miles and my bungees get cut there. I have noticed some chains being run around the rubrail tube, but I didn't think it was load rated. Sometimes I really like my bed chains, other times I wish I had j-hooks.

Clarification please.

 

On a Fontaine you have the stake pocket then what is essentially a round piece of aluminum pipe welded between the bed and the rail. That is what we are calling a spool.

If I remember correctly there are two spools in between each stake pocket. I could be wrong on that though.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spool

Spool may refer to:
Spool, a usually low-flanged or unflanged cylinder on which thread, wire, cable, paper, film, straps, or tape is wound for distribution or use.

 

Some trailers only have one between the pockets. If there are two they are refered to as double pipe spools.