Best load securement ever

Yikes.

Pretty clever for a lazy person though. Aside from weight coverage, they SHOULD stay on the trailer assuming a decent driver (and maybe that's the point: "I've hauled these a THOUSAND times like this! Nothing's gone wrong yet!").

 

Newbie Question: what makes this wrong?
Not saying it's right, just learning here.

 

And for the record, I haul dry van so I am just clueless about flatbed.

 

Worse people around here are the farmers and landscapers. 99.9% if tractors you see hauled around here have what I call the "farmer drawbar rap". They will take one chain, rap it around the drawbar, add a binder, and call it good.The really lazy ones won't bother with the binder, they will just hook it as tight as they can and truck on. You will also be hard pressed to find a skid steer with more than one chain on it.

The pic of the manlifts isn't all that bad IMO. Not legal but it should hold. The worst thing is if they aren't parked tight against each other, going down the road the chain would get loose. It does appear there are some sort of stops welded under the outer rail to keep the binder from sliding.

On the original pic, I have to believe somebody staged that setup just to get a laugh. Surely nobody is that stupid but you never know.

 

Binder is hooked to the lip of the trailer frame. There is nothing to keep the binder from sliding to the left and now you have a lose load.

 

@m16ty saw it, there are blocks under the lip to keep the binder from sliding

 

Yeah but that binder isn't against them look at macks picture the binder is in the middle of nowhere it can an most likely will slide then it's like @cnsper said loose load. When I have guys help me chain they always do that and I try to show them why you can't. If you're going straight down or up against something it will work but at an angle like that won't. It's the same as throwing chains over things, you kinda have to mess with them to find what I call they're "natural home" if you put them at a weird angle or whatever they will move around and get loose. Who hasn't been tightening a chain and had it right as heck then in the next pull of the binder the chain jumps and is loose?

 

Those are small lifts they only need two chains each and being close isn't a problem just needs two more chains.