Attaching short chains?

I haul steel on a 5 axle sled with a Conestoga aero 2 tarp, the trailer is 96" wide. That's cutting it close on width sometimes, and we are local, short haul, so time is of the essence. Right now we are using d plates, but on these trailers, the channels only let you hook from the inside, which makes hauling a 90 inch wide rack a pita. Our newer, 102" wide trailers have channels that you can hook a d plate to from either direction.

Has anyone tried permanently attaching short sectons of chain to the spools in between the stake pockets? One of our subcontractors have older trailers with a channel on both sides that sit down about an inch, with alternating chain sections and d rings. Seems like the cats ###, because you can hook your binder directly to the trailer chain, plus you don't have to use as many pieces of equipment.

Any other ideas to speed up chaining?

 

My plan was to just use regular hooks, and use some safety wire to keep it together. I've looked at the heavy duty quick links, they looked more expensive than plain hooks and wire

 

Not to derail, I'm buffalo bill over on tb

 

We need the length, we haul goofy stuff sometimes. Shorter chains are no good, the problem is the accessibility with the d rings