Oversized precast

concrete is crazy brittle and crazy heavy

look at concrete funny sometimes and it breaks. And then they pick it up and plop it around and nothing happens. It's an odd product.

Oh, another thing on A frames, you want to use a kicker piece of dunnage. so the chain/strap is pushing down at an angle, so you want a piece of dunnage at the bottom of the a frame up against the wall between the wall and chain/strap. so the bottom of the wall can't slide out. (it's true for windows too, DAMHIK)

 

I always carried 2 50ft X1/4" poly ropes with a loop braided on one end that I could pin a spare chain hook onto. Toss the hook over a high load and hook the chain and drag it back.
The rope was also used for that unruly tarp on a ugly load where I could not get the tarp to stop billowing.

 

I suppose I poured enough concrete and worked a batchman now and then to be dangerous.

What you want is Roman Concrete with that Volcanic Ash. Once it sets... especially under water. It's there 2000 years.

But everything here in America is usually some mix of Portland Cement. Then they try to mix it up just so to do a job and you wonder why it crumbles.

 

C'mon now x1... we're hauling with trucks... not submarines!

 

With the hurricane coming and some one is pushing a semi through windshield high water next week down there in florida that would qualify.

ty for the humor, it is appreciated.

 

We used to haul these 16x60 boxes with cloth lids and they always had to be tarpped. We had some special light weight 24x40 tarps made up just for them.

The first tarping was easy, I would drape the tarps before it was loaded. The tricky part is the customer would unload and reload the box while it was still on the trailer, and we had to retarp it. A few guys fell through the cloth lids walking across them rolling out the tarps.

I took a 1/2” rope 100’ long and cut it into three pieces. Put a big carabiner on one end and toss them over the load. Roll the tarps out next to the trailer, hook the ropes up, and pull them over.

Bonus points for making your pilot car drivers work the other two ropes! Works great with three people.

 

what was in the box?

 

Large pieces of aluminum used for airplane wing skins.