I found it. It's Logan Alumium, a part of Novalis now. This particular shipper was where I spent many coils going to Williansburg for Beer. They had a raildock as well as flat docks with securement in piles everywhere. A good shipper. Until they run out lol. Lewisburg KY is the small town above it. Little bit of a country drive to get down to this shipper. from the direction of Owenboro. Berea Ky Aluminum - Google Search http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/logan aluminium.jpg
Yep, I've hauled coils out of there. There's also RJ Corman Distribution in Woodburn, KY, where they sometimes store those coils for shipping. I really hate those tall aluminum coils. They make the whole truck feel tippy. I used to get them to take to Ball in Findlay, OH, or to Golden for Coors. I scrounged some anti-skid mats to put under them, which helped a lot. For a trip chain, you can hammer nails in the two front corners of the pallet to hang the chain on, rather than having them directly on the deck. Still doesn't help that much in a hard brake situation if the coil slides off the pallet. Tarping them is a drag, too. They're very odd shaped and the shipper doesn't want any bungies near those coils, so it becomes a Boy Scout knot-tying project. I wasn't a Boy Scout.
So, I just looked at the video. This is no flatbedder. That truck is set up for reefer, and the driver dresses like a reefer driver. (No offense intended, just an observation.) Reefer drivers! If someone talks you into hauling a steel load on a flatbed for some quick money, make #### sure you have chains X'd across the front of the load to keep it from sliding into your tractor if you have a hard brake. Flatbedders, if this happens to you and you were too tired or lazy to properly secure the load against forward movement, I'm sorry but I am not going to feel that bad for you. For the family you leave behind, yes, but not for you. You can be lazy, or you can be a flatbedder, but not both. The two just don't go together.
We had a ravens covered wagon, throwing three eyes or whatever way they wanted, however many really was just a math exercise where they went on the deck. Tarping is sides then bars then big tarp front towards back after securement. Ive run other flatbeds like the straight 48' fruehauf (Which was a gobover lot of work.. whew) and others but the Ravens were the best as far as I was concerned. It did twice take a 52000 coil steel which is roughly 24 feet? 8.5 high something like that, centered to about around 1/4 inch in the middle tolerance. So that the frames would not fail. Throw everything on that gigantic tippy scary gary IN load... I need a drink. Scotch or something just thinking about that experience. I have never had a load like that threaten to kill everyone around.
These coils are .017" aluminum for Beer cans. Eye to the Sky is the only way to transport them without ruining half the coil.
My friend Ron did that job as well. He does a lot of different things with that rotator he bought. It's already paid off more than once for him. I subscribe to his YouTube channel as well. He's really good at what he does and is teaching Talon and his son everything he knows.
It's Beer Coil. They CANNOT be damaged. Check your can of beer, the thin sides IS the coil itself. Punched out something like 200 per second with lid and all. Feed one coil and I think it's 6 hours they are consumed. Something between 9 to 14 miles worth of metal. But don't gospel that tidbit, memories are not what they used to be.
One time I asked the guy at Coors how many beer cans they can make with one coil. He had no idea. I really want to know, even though I always buy my beer in bottles since I read that aluminum causes Alzheimer's and I'm halfway there already.
Ok they take the coils off the deck at Busch. They verbally explained to me my three coils represent roughly 12 to 15 miles of sheet aluminum unrolled. Each. So... its 55 plus miles on my one flatbed. They feed a coil into a stamp. THAT stamp drives a 10 to 20 ton press at about 3 strokes a second. Each stroke punches about 3 feet worth of coil feeding into it across the unrolling sheet. The result is about 200 cans worth of lids, punched sides and bottom. In about 6 hours that coil is gone, next coil please. So. 600 cans every few seconds. punch punch punch that's 600 plus. There are several of those going. All the coils are fed in. It only takes 10 minutes to snap em on. And those stamps start munching on them. They say some holidays they cannot run fast enough to keep up with the military bases and midatlantic states as they drink the cans. They literally gain on the brewery at times.
