COILS: Chains+straps or just chains?

So basically the coil didn't go anywhere till it hit the ground?

 

"A/C chains" as you call them would be 5/16"
"Coil" chains would be 3/8"

you'll learn as you go, but you got the right idea.

 

Try telling that to the BTT trucks that dropped one onto a car a few weeks ago at the Burr St. exit ramp..... he had 2 chains thru a 60,000# coil because he was just going from the US Steel dock ot their warehouse 3 exits away.

 

I'd be more than happy to, but I didn't say anything about stupid people hauling coils did I?...LOL I'm also not saying its a good thing to undersecure a load.

 

BTW I use 5/16" chains on coils... I also use 3/8" too,, but 5/16 is good enough.

 

I'm used to 4Klbs rated chains so if I have a 26Klbs coil suicide I use the number of chains that meets or exceed's the weight of the coil. So for a 26Klbs coil I will use 7 chains then throw 2 extra just for added security then 2 strap's over the tarp which not only offers extra securment but also helps prevent the padding under the tarp from moving and the trap ripping but this is personal prefrence. You can never use too much securment. Eye to the sky (as I was trained) I will start at the front of the coil and start an "X" pattern move to the center and throw one directly over then to the back and finish the "X" towards the front. if at U.S. Steel (or anywhere else) loading double eye to the sky, the end strap's between the coils can crisscross each other resulting in an "X" pattern in the center between the two coil's and isn't againest DOT Reg's. However chains cannot touch each other in anyway. I alternate staps in a hook/winch/hook/winch fashion to keep the pull equalized instead of tighting all winch's on one side which can make a coil lean. I do the same with chain's alternating the binders staring in the center working my way out on both sides. One thing to always keep in mind with any load. You want to make sure that you are stoping fore and aft, side to side and up and down movment. The gray lines are chains over pallet corner's to prevent the pallets from sliding. Little diagram I have made below for eye to the sky.

 

Dude are you F'n kidding me.......... 9 chains on a 26k coil? Whoever to9ld you this is how to do it has lost their marbles!

IIRC and I can't tell you the last time I actually look at the regs, but you only need 3 chains on a 26k coil. Maybe I'm wrong, but I sure ain't throwing 7! Or 9!!