hooking to the frame illegal?

Yes, under the bottom. If I drug them hooking to the top flange, I'd really be in trouble, lol.

I don't like hooking to the top flange because most of the time you are pulling at the "toe" of the hook doing that. The chain usually goes up from the frame and you run into a situation where you aren't pulling straight on the hook by going in the top flange.

I can't hook in the top flange anyway on our Talbert. It has angle braces going from the top flange down to the web, to prevent the flange from rolling when people do stupid stuff like hauling wide excavators and don't put the outriggers out or try to side load something.

 

No, I am much too comfortable in doing what I'm doing to try and start to do something new.

 

I hook to the top rail all the time

When I hook to
The webbing I go
From one to the next

Both are rated tie down points
On my trailer

I could
Use about 75 more d rings on my trailer as well

 

Every lowboy I've ever pulled could've used a hundred more d rings. I do the same when hooping to the web and sometimes I'll go in one hole and out the next then back around to the original making a wrap. I've never had any problems hooking into the top rail tho.

 

I wouldn't him into the main beam on an aluminum trailer. Just my thoughts personally. If it's steel, then I'd probably have less issue, but still don't like it.

 

I don't hook to the bottom just the top, my first tow Talberts you could because the outside beams were only 8" so the didn't hit the road. On of the drivers at that company hooked to the bottom of his rails when he got his new trailer with full depth side rails like he had always done on his Talbert, one day he had a little load of pipe on an went over a set of railroad tracks and sheared off all his strap which of course let the pipe go everywhere. I learned from him.

 

I hook to the top as well.

 

Trailer or cargo?

Former, mostly MAC and East. Handful of Ravens, Wilson, Manac and Lode King. My favourite trailer is the MAC though. Seems like such solid construction and very aesthetically pleasing.

Latter, our main money maker is steel. Tube, bar, billet, coils (US to S. ON), scrap, etc. We're part of a big cycle of steel. Billet goes south east into the US. Billets get turned into coils. Coils go into Southern Ontario. Coils get turned into tube. Tube comes back here or goes west. Tube gets turned into stuff. Stuff gets used and scrapped. Scrap comes back from the west and recycled here. Gets turned into billet, then the cycle starts all over again.

We will haul anything if the price is right though.

 

I meant trailers. But that's a very interesting insight. I wouldn't say I dislike Manac but they're not my favourite. I like how Lode King has the dunnage at the back behind the door.
Ever pull an Alutrec? From Quebec

 

The brackets where the tops of outriggers would attach are too far back on this trailer. All the lower tabs where the pins go to hold them on the bottom are bent as well. My company never hauls anything that would need outriggers anyways.