Rebar dunnage set up.

Use chains and gut wrap them. sucking them together, rebar is rough, it will not move.

 

I did a customer pickup at their facility once a few years back. Lady started to offer me a gig within 5 minutes of being there.

They don’t have a very positive reputation.

 

you can't move big bundles of rebar by hand or chain. (esp long 60'ers). they simply weigh too much. you can gut wrap all you want, it won't push them together to touch and won't put downward pressure on them. Most of the bigger (non cut/bended) bundles i have done have been like 6 bundles to a trailer and that's like 48,000lbs. (i want to say you can do 8 bundles of #8's or 6 bundles of #6's but to be honest i don't remember).

 

The road bumps make em move together.

Make em nice and tight. 10 miles later they're loose. Tighten down. Repeat.

 

You do not gut wrap the whole load at one time, You would be surprised what a guy can move with the ratchet binders.
I have moved some pretty heavy stuff to slide it together, also moved some heavy stuff to satisfy the dot when over on an axle with a ratchet binder or two.

 

The easiest way to move rebar together is with the crane. It gets loaded properly or not at all. That’s with every single load.

This crap would not fly if more drivers stood up for them selfs. It just lazy loaders getting away with it because no one says anything.

 

And finally if in a pinch your picking up a preloaded trailer with dunnage already stacked not the best way. Just to shore it up a bit better, put a chain right across the dunnage and over the rebar, and hook the chain like you would with a dunnage barrier. And that helps with all rebar dunnage set ups.

Not the best option, but if its bloody midnight and its already sitting loaded, it beats nothing.

 

For visual reference. This was a repower, I grabbed as is.

 

Do you think it is ok to put dunnage like that?

 

Had I been the one who loaded it, I would have pyramided it. Two high im less concerned. But still if it had been mine I would have pyramided it. And now that i think about it, on that load in particular, I could have done with 1. Cause I have room on the catwalk. In the first place.