Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Its. Obvious it's moving. My tarps and ladder are strapped to the back and have been pushed back. All the straps are tight and for 1000 miles now I've only had to tighten a couple. One of the pipes on top has moved about 2 ft to the rear. Luckily I only have 40 miles to go in the morning.

I used every winch I had because I've heard how dangerous this load can be. I would've had 3 in front of the front pipe stakes but forgot one and didn't realize until I was loaded and couldn't move winches past my pipe stakes.

 

I use less 4x4s and tighten the middle first so it pulles it down and never had any move

 

Mount Pleasant, TX 8/25/15
Not a good day for this driver. I assume the load was not x-strapped but I'll agree that an x-strap will fail in many e-stops like this obviously was. No way of knowing exactly what happened to warrant the e-stop

 

Is that foam or plywood. Plywood I would have had 3 four inch straps on the front and my pipe stakes in front.

 

It's plywood (OSB I believe), and I think I saw he did have his a bulkhead built in front too (covered up by I'm pretty sure I saw one broken over) but they were less then useless for a 5 foot high load.

I don't think Thomason hauls any pipe requiring pipe stakes.

 

Well even my load of pipe I don't know that I could build a big enough bulkhead to stop it all with just 12 sticks. I mostly just hope to take the edge off the momentum. I wouldn't even worry about one with that load anyways but I store my dunnage on the front of my deck anyways stacked 3 deep 4 high. I'm guessing his straps weren't very tight.

 

@Chewy352 I would section your pipe in layers, do a bottom layer belly wrap and couple over front and back.
Then throw over the top layer.
And less than 5 miles of turns and stops, due to shift and settling. Check all straps.


That OSB load was a "hard braking event". As the computer Rambo's would call it.

Corners and strap the hell out of that front load of OSB. And drive like your carrying glass. To many drive like its a car.

 

Ya that's how I'm Gunna do it from now on.

 

Chewy do you have a belly wrap on that liar of casing?? I would have at minimum one belly wrap with chains in the center but better is to belly wrap each end. If you pull the pipe together and make it one bundle it won't move on you a bit.

 

Couldn't use chain on this load. I should have used belly wraps. It was mostly the top partial layer that moved but some in the middle of the load to.