Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

And that is part of the excitement (or stress) that comes with running your own equipment.

Pulling up to a hay barn, and knowing full well that if I get it stuck in the mud, then the tow bill will be on me.

Unless there is a buddy close enough by with a tractor...

 

Skidded coils.

 

1st ever big boy coils.

Drive it like you stole it? Easy on the corners?


Did I use the friction mats right?

I put them on the deck first.

 

Ya drive it like you stole it as long as I'm nowhere nearby. If I am then drive it like there's no securement at all lol. When I do put rubber under my coil racks I put it the same direction as the racks but I'm no physicist.

 

Friction mats look OK. But you need to move the coil racks in and use more if you have them. You have them spread so wide they are not under your coil, not really serving any purpose like that. jMO

 

The coil racks should not be wider than the coils. On some of the heavier and wider coils,.. you can use more than 2 coil racks per coil.

Also,. the chains should be set up to keep the coil inside the wood/racks. So mainly downward force is how it was explained to me.

This was my first large coil. A 43k lb coil. And yes,.. I was nervous and stopped to check it often.
If you look closely,.. you can see 3 coil racks under it. I was told by someone here that I should have used 4 and 2 more chains.


Hurst

 

I didn't even notice that. I'd use 4 coil racks and the 2 outside ones right at the edge of the coils. Your dunnage is under a ton of pressure and could break.

 

Sooooo........

I did it all wrong? Another flatbedder watched me do the first one. He said it was over secured.

I thought you wanted the rear chains to pull back.

I don't really like those j track brackets.

 

I think most of what you did will be fine. The only concern I have is that all of the coils weight is on the wood,.. and the rack is doing nothing but keeping the wood in place. The rack should share the weight.

At least you did it much better than this guy. And I tried in vain to explain the problem. He wasnt having it. The worst thing was that the shipper and other drivers were fine with him leaving like this.



Hurst

 

I was told to piut the j bracket next to a bolt so the bolt holds the j bracket from sliding. I'll have to look and see if there's more bolts so I could make it more like Hursts picture.