Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I know this is flatbed,.. but saw this in Denver today and having been in the car hauling business,.. this really irked me.



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If he had to make a hard stop,.. or worse,.. if he hit someone,.. those vehicles will go flying. The top one had only 1 wheel strap on the front right. Probably just as half a55ed as the rest of them. No tag on the trailer either.

Had a magnetic sign on his door with a DOT#. No IFTA of course. Have my doubts if he even had proper insurance considering he was too lazy to secure his load properly.

Hurst

 

Kinda like the guy that was killed in Chicago last summer when he tried to load a flatbed with the cars he was carrying.

 

Had to load some concrete barriers with a backhoe. Used 2 chains on each end, then one long one to connect them to the bucket. Not the greatest pic but you get the gist.



This is when I got them in place. Man was it ever wobbly, it was almost too much weight to keep balanced, didn't help that I started in a bit of a mud hole. Then I winched them up.



Here is a pic of a skid steer. We rented an auger attachment, I couldn't get the attachment off, so I just took it back to the rental place, so they could give me a hand. When I went to go load it back up and attach the bucket, as soon as I started to climb the ramp, I could feel it starting to tilt back, so I braced myself for the tip but the design prevented it going all the way on its back.



I hooked up the winch and pulled it on, leveled out the bed, then reattached the bucket. Turns out the weight of the attachment helps keep it balanced on a slope!

 

Why did you winch the skid steer on?
And why not just lift the blocks right on the flatbed?

 

First of 3 or 4 loads to the same place this week.

 

Looks like a load I take to get out of bad area.

 

I tried to drive it on but without the bucket on, there was too much weight concentrated on the back (counterweight) and therefore it tipped on its back.

2. Height and weight. The blocks were too heavy for the backhoe. Backhoe's are really tippy even just driving down a paved road carrying nothing. I had a hard time driving back 10' with them only raised 6". Also I don't think I could have raised them high enough when you factor in the space from the chains and the bucket. It was safer to winch them up instead of risking an accident.

 

It was a bad area. Scandinavian side of town.

 

Little load of crated machinery.

 

backhoes have their pivot axle at the front like tractors so the more weight you lift with the front bucket the more they try to lift one back wheel off the ground. You get accustom to it after a while. Did five years in backhoes in a previous job.