First steel coils

Usually, from what ive seen, a truck with the setback steer runs more weight on the steer empty than it does loaded.

 

Never hauled a coil but plenty of 44,000 pound counterweights and my Pete and steel step I was 35,000. I set the center of the cwt about 8 or 10 inches behind the center line of the trailer and never had a problem scaling or getting around in the winter. Did the same thing with crane mats or anything linear.

 

I'll do it tomorrow evening. Waking um at 2 am to run from Houston to Alabama. Gunna be a long morning with little sleep.

 

I appreciate your post in doing the math BTW.

 

I was there 1 time. easy to find. nice place to load/unload.

 

For the first question I subtracted my 7000 lb empty weight from my 34000 lb goal. That gave me how much weight of the coil I needed behind the weight center of the trailer which is 27000 lbs.

Then I took the weight of the coil 48000 lbs and divided by 2 which is 24000 lbs. Now I know the coil is going to move back behind my weight center.

"But chewy how far back?" "Patience six I'm getting there."

The diameter of the coil is 7 ft. Divide 48000 by 7. That gives you 6857.1428 lbs per foot of coil. 6 inches would add 3428.5714 to the spreads. From there I was close enough and guestimated 5 inches. After all that's more then enough for the women I date.

For the second question. If I'm 35500 on the spreads subtract my 7000 lb empty from 35500 loaded. That gives me 28500 lbs of coil on the spread. Subtract 28500 from 48000 and that gives me 19500 lbs of coil on the drives. Add 19500 lbs to the drives empty weight of 12000 lbs and you have a loaded weight of 31500 lbs on the drives.

Now six I'm on an unwanted 44 hr restart in mobile Alabama and there's beer to be drunk so no more math. Lol

 

This made me chuckle, thought I was reading a six post for a half second.

 

Ya I gave him a hard time over it in another thread.

 

In a securement test, they don't care about the answer...just that you understand. In order to explain it to someone else, you have to be able to understand. Good work, Chewy. No more math. Next will be Ethics.