Flat bed Equipment Advise

I agree but I've learned that rubber anti skid mats work well for corners and edges. Blankets take up to much room for me but I do keep a couple for coils. They make coil tarping a breeze.

 

Old tarps can also to protect your tarps.

 

I pickup scrap rubber mud flaps in truck stops alot when walking the dog. Then cut into smaller pieces
Also old car floor mats make good protectors

In time you might aquire a few clevis which can also be handy.

Eventuly the problem because where to keep everything.

 

Here's a list of the #### I carried when I was flatbedding,
10 5/16x20ft chains
10 snap binders
10 ratchet binders
2 8ft drop lumber tarps 27x24
2 ft drop steel tarps 27ft long don't ask me the width never measured
2 boxes of tarp straps 50/box 21" long
3 bundles of 150ft 255lb WLL rope
16 4" straps 30ft
4 4" straps 40ft length
8 4x4s not beveled (I'm wasn't a coil hauler)
8 coil racks
12 pipe stakes (home made)
Smoke tarp
100 plastic corner protectors
20 thick rubber corner portectors
20 pieces of cut up conveyor belt
4 cut up rubber mudflaps cut in various sizes for corner protection,
6 2" 27ft long ratchet straps
A broom,
Also some shackles not sure what the size is on those but you can get a 3/8 chain through them. Also the pins fit through a 3 CAT 3 3 point, and they fit through a CAT 3 drawbar.
I'm probably for getting something but that's the crap that's still sitting in my boxes.

 

For those of you comfortable with both snap and rachet binders, can ya'll explain what applications you preferred for snap and what you preferred for rachet plz.

 

Snap.............none.I hate them.
They are worthless but that's my opinion.
I'm shure some like them because you can do it more quickly then rachet.

 

I use both and feel both have their different applications.
Rachet binders when fewer places to chain but want a tighter pull.
Snap binders when needing to pull several chains because of the size of load. Also snap binders take up less room in a run of chain
I carry 4 ratchet binders and 10 snap. Think I would prefer 6 and 8, just don't want to spend the money.

 

The snap ratchets work best when trying to hunch the chains down on crushed cars and the loader guy isnt there to help you get that extra 'crunch'. I'll use 2 snap binders taking turns with each to get the most out of the crunch. Time consuming,.. but better then losing your load on an exit ramp thinking 20 mph was slow enough on a 30 mph ramp.

That and I have used the snap binders chaining down steel beams or anything that wont get damaged using them and doesnt require the chains to be as tight as banjo strings.

I'd never use them on steel coils or as the sole binders for heavy equipment. I have used them on secondary chains (Back up chains) when hauling heavy equipment.

Hurst

 

I keep it pretty simple...
10 chains
10 snap binders
20ish 4" straps with chain anchors
2 2" ratchets straps
Winch bar

 

I think it is funny that the snap binders say no cheater bars but everyone uses one.

Do not use pipe as a cheater bar on a snap binder. Get a real winch bar.

The truth is that I have never used the ratchet binders