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My first question is weight. After that, if it's light, I use a strap for 5, 10, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55, etc. Then consideration for material/product; you said beam, so I'm defaulting to steel, which means add in another 3 for the mere safety of it.

So, for the sheer length of the thing, I'm going to say 9. But I don't like "legal", especially for steel. My company defaults to 5000 lbs coverage per strap, and they require 100% weight coverage.

 

2 in the first 10, 63 remaining, 6 for 60, a 1 more for the 3. 9 total, assuming you meet aggregate weight

 

No problem. I'm sorry I couldn't be more help.

This makes me want to get some recording equipment and make some tutorial videos. I don't like to brag (because we all still have stuff to learn) but I tend to make a fairly pretty tarp-job, and would like to pass those tricks and techniques I've been taught and figured out onto others.

 

Do that please.

 

If not video, I can definitely try pictures. As step by step as I can get in a reasonable amount of time (I already take longer than average to tarp because I like doing it right and neatly).

 

You know, I have never found anywhere that said that specifically. IRL it cannot happen. The exception to the minimum tie down requirement says...

"A vehicle transporting one or more articles of cargo such as, but not limited to, machinery or fabricated structural items (e.g., steel or concrete beams, crane booms, girders, and trusses, etc.) which, because of their design, size, shape, or weight, must be fastened by special methods. However, any article of cargo carried on that vehicle must be securely and adequately fastened to the vehicle."

The key phrase is "must be fastened by special methods". If you look at beams that are hauled there is no way that many chains can be attached. Some take chains over the top while others have special pins that go through the beam and you secure plates and chains to either end of the pin.

Now the WLL, that is another thing. That MUST be covered and in my opinion you should over do it. Like the steel beams that I am hauling, the one today weighed 36k and I had 8 each 1/2" direct tie downs and 1 each 3/8" indirect tiedown. Because of the 1/2" binders only being 9900 pounds each it comes to 45k in securement.

The only time you see that many tiedowns is when they are using 3/8" chain and going over the top of the beam. The beam today would have needed 12 tiedowns but there is not enough room on the bunks for that many chains.

Not saying that you are wrong but we have never had a problem. I have also been going through the Laurel coop for the last 3 weeks and only been pulled in when there is someone new in the scalehouse just to check permits.

This beam is a prime example of one being secured with the pin through the beam that has a plate and shackles on either side. Some MFG do not allow chains over the top to protect the edges of the beam. In this case there is one pin and on those there are only 2 securement points because there are only locations for 2 shackles.

 

A 49m blade weighs @14000 lbs. Not heavy at all. The sheer size of the thing produces so much torque that if secured for the weight, it will easily snap the chains. Ive seen quite a few snap the chains at the root stand at the front of the trailer.

As far as the number of securement, I stick to the "for every 10ft" rule, because I ve never seen anything that says otherwise.

 

I can understand that. I have had a chain break. That's why I over do it with the chains.That photo is not one of our beams, it was just a better photo.

I don't like it at all. That beam probably weighs in the 80-90k range and you only have 2 each 1/2" chains on each side. Not nearly enough for me.

 

If I could, I'd throw $25 in the mail to help the motivation. Either that or dinner and beverages. But I don't get sent west often.

 

Where you hook your chains...could you connect a 10ton clevis instead, and double up on your chains through the clevis?