Tips on building Coil cradles and securing

darn it man. here i thought i explained the technique that YOU ALL USE.

which plant loads em like that anyways?????

 

How you load the coil, is determined by the receiver and the equipment they have to unload you.

 

I have seen many more that hold the dunnage at an angle, both in catalogs and in practice.

 

I like to place my coil racks centered on the trailer's frame.

 

i seeeeeeeeeeee

 

What are attaching the non-hooked end of the chain to? This will work if you have chain ties on your trailer, though they entire, doubled chain would be compromised if even on binder is loosened. I am trying to visualize this. When I use this method on, let's say a backhoe, only because that is what I am hauling at the moment, I pass the chain through a securement point on the backhoe and wrap the hook end through a stake pocket (a chain tiedown on the trailer would replace the stake pocket), then I would place the binder on the secured end of the chain and the loose end coming out of the securement point. I would do the same thing on the other side. I could loose one side of the securement, but the other side would still be secure.

 

Terry most guys that haul a lot of steel have trailers with tie downs every foot or so. If you use a single chain and two binders you fasten both hooks at the front of the coil and the two binders at the rear to the trailer and the chain. The slack in between two binders will be loose and both binders will be independant of each other. On modern aluminum trailers with j-hooks a lot of guys will put an oversize hook on one end of each binder and hook it directly to the j-hook. Snowwy loading shotgun is more common with steel haulers because you can pull toward the middle of the trailer when chaining so you don't have to climb up or down or pull boards out of the side kit. I think it's a little safer but ultimately it came down to the customer requirements.

 

Yes, yes, it was, what is the binder attached to?, that was throwing me a curve ball. With that being stated, I understand completely. I was hoping he was not talking about hooking the binder to the stake pocket.

 

I don't know for fact if it's regulation but in practice I always attach both ends of chain to trailer and binder goes on chain cuz I hear DOT doesn't like binder direct to trailer.




That pic - training of the newwbs. They made them all buy the same safety vests and hard hats.

 

the only coils racks I have seen at an angle were on a tmc truck, there is a huge demand for beveled lumber.

I also think ya would hard pressed to get a 20 foot chain to go thru a coil eye twice, that would leave less thean 4 feet to loop around pockets or spools, the only way I see it working is to attach the binder to the trailer. I do that when hauling a Humvee but I loop the chain thru the eyeloop on the Humvee and then around my spools and hook the binder to the chain forming a loop. but this is in reality a indirect tiedown, so doing it this way gives no better rating than hooked to one side and thru both eyeloops and to the other side of trailer, the first way is stronger , but in the eyes of the rulemakers no different.