Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I don't mind straps on round steel. Heck I kinda like it because you get more surface area contact. Now I beams which I admit I have used straps on before with proper edge protection but I have had a change of heart and will be using chains from now on.

 

We use chains with steel corner protectors on I beams. Usually 8 chains for 45,000 pounds. I've used straps on railroad track, I'm undecided which is better.

It's obviously hard to see in the picture, he had the extra "tail" rolled up on the outside bundle. Which raised the strap one inch off the inside bundles (6 per row). So not only were the bundles all catterwampus, the straps were only on the 2 outside bundles. One good brake from being a hod ornament. If he'd have choked, then strapped, different story.

 

My company almost exclusively uses straps on steel (coils notwithstanding). We have a standard of one 4" 5400lb rated strap per 5000lbs of load. Other than a driver not using enough, they've never had an issue with load shift.

A lot of the steel product out there (shaped tube, galvanized, stainless, painted, etc) shippers don't want a chain anywhere near it. I helped transfer two 45K loads of 1/2" wall stainless tube (gorgeous stuff) and we couldn't even use a metal pry bar to synch in the bundles (the bills were SUPER specific).

 

Here ya go @DDlighttruck

Solid steel going to be machined into an engine block

 

Huh. I'll have to save that photo, that's very neat how you did the "x".

I'll see your steel block, and raise you some steel coils. I was impressed with the chain work on the rear coil.

 

That Sierra pacific has traveled a long ways!!

 

See what you can learn from others.

The X is laying chain under the corner pull up along face over top and connect other side. Thus me not wanting ANY forward movement


It may seem silly, but spend a buck buy the flatbed model at the truckstop. You can practice in small scale. Either use paracord or what comes with it.

I had another driver call me, who was thrown to the wolves on flatbedding. It was a good practice tool.

What ever helps you get home safely, people depend on you to stay alive.

 

"Washingtons Renewable Resource"

 

They put that on every package. Either Wa or California renewable resource. Here it's always heavy and pays cheap.

 

In my experience there are two kinds of drivers, those who have had a load shift and those that will.