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What's with the chains and bulkhead? I thought rail was supposed to be hauled with no more than 4 floppy straps...

 

It is, he’s just showing off. Lol

 

I wonder if that's a rails to trails project?

Why no edge protection for the straps? I know the edges aren't that sharp but I still figured it would be a good idea but it may be my lack of experience asking the question. Lol

 

The edges were very round.

 

I'm gonna do the same if I see a DSV truck in Montana. LMFAO. Beautiful here. Perfect weather, no masks, no traffic. The only negative is ill be lugging heavy lumber back east. Took highway 2 all the way across the top today, went through Glacier National Park. I'm 50 miles north of Whitefish now up by the Canadian border.

 

You guys need to get your ##### up here. This is almost seven bucks a mile, and 22,000 lbs. I'm a little smarter this trip, (I mean this entire trip to the NE) and I've only paid one toll because I got stuck on the other side of the Hudson, and wasn't going a hundred miles out of my way to avoid it.

Anyways, unless you have some sweet special edge protection, is there a better way to tie this down? I used wooden vee-boards to help, and used edge protection to hold them against the brick. Basically because I was afraid the cubes would start vibrating apart on the trip.

 

I always see them using those metal screen type edge protectors on bricks, that cover the entire sides...

 

The local day cabs had nice edge protection for it. About three feet long, one foot top, and the side went all the way down to the trailer. But I don't have room to store that much stuff for one specific load I might never haul again. If you have "regular flatbed stuff" is there anything specific you'd do to secure it? I thought about trips, but decided against it. Thing is, I never really felt it was "strapped for the wreck, not the ride".

 

You did well with what u had imo. All you can do is check it regularly

 

Next time pick up a roll of 4ft plastic snow fencing or a roll of chicken wire.
Wrap the brick before tying down and lace the ends with rope.
Fold the top over then tie down and use lumber under strap corners(V-boards) to hold the fencing up.