I've hauled 'em hundreds of times

Oh yeh...they all say that. That's why Birmingham, AL doesn't want them...or anyone else near the downtown area on 20/59.

You wouldn't believe the number of holes that have had to be repaired on the overpasses. Coils, knocking huge chunks out.

 

First coil I ever saw close up was stretched out down a mountain in PA. That was my first knowledge of pups/doubles/?. They had little 12 foot (?) flatbeds pulled with a SA tractor. Apparently for bridge law back then on the old two lane (50's-60's) mountain roads.
Rear trailer was upside down. Coil was unwound a long way down slope.
They had a cutting torch man chopping it off in what looked like 10 ft lengths and a wrecker hoisting those on to another trailer.
Strange thing was it unwound down the shoulder like it was driven until it hit something to throw it off to the right and into the woods. Always wondered it the welder had to climb the tree tops to get the last of it out or if they left it.
I was going down, just had to wait for traffic switch off to get past. Sure glad I was going down. Would have been a real surprise to have met that booger coming down with me going up
GOD was good to me even back then.

 

Thats nutty. I was always afraid of coils for some reason but I still ran them. Always an extra chain thrown through, 2 extra if they were loaded suicide. Hated that the most, but they rode better loaded that way.

 

Never had that option offered.... wish I did.

 

Heck, we pick them up there.....

 

The eye to the sky coils are smaller. Usually get 3-6 of them. The bad boy 50.000 + coils (super) are shotgun or suicide. The only big coils that I get that are eye to the sky are aluminum coils.

 

I think the smallest i ever got was a single 25k coil. Loaded it suicide. Seemed like a wasted trip for such a small load but I made good time with it.