Question of Chains vs. Straps

Dry ice?

It'd be some pretty serious winter weather to duplicate the chain link in a bucket of dry ice.

I have broken chains and I have broken binders in the middle of August in Texas but I think it was because the chain or binder had some other problem besides being too hot.

If it was cold enough to break a chain...You'd probably be frozen solid!

 

The best Chinese crap money can buy.

 

I haul a lot of big all terrain forklift. Sometimes when were slow I bull spit with the mechanics. When I seen them cover hub bearing in dry ice I thought they were nuts. steal will shrink when it get that cold and they have to use a brass hammer to pound them in. A steal hammer will break them. ( I did not believe them ) they let me break one of the old ones. Once the steal bearing start to warm back up they expand to a perfect fit. But I think dry ice is 100 below zero you would not catch me out of the house .

 

Please elaborate on this. I never had a strap come loose just because it got wet. I live in Washington state and it rains a lot here so you really have me wondering about this. I have also never replaced a strap just because it got wet otherwise I would have been replacing a lot of straps before and still doing it.

 

You have now.....

Thanks! I needed a reminder to run to the store and grab some dry ice....

I can see where snowwy is coming from, wet straps suck and seem to need more effort to tighten mainly cause you're ringing them out.

 

Les2 if your going to get some dry ice save some. I you can keep ice cream in your truck .LOL. I don't keep chains in ice. I should have never posted on here half asleep. I make myself look like a weak-link. LOL

 

See what you've done!!!!

Now we'll be getting threads like:

"What's the best Dry Ice Machine to install on my truck"

"My Dry Ice Machine failed, and the cold air cracked my frame - Is this Warranty?"

"Sent my Dry Ice Machine to Mr Haney....WOW!!"

 

LMAO!!!!!

SAD BUT TRUE!!

 

LOL trying again!

C'mon when has a strap ever needed a half of a notch? Like this one's too loose and the next one's too tight! You're killin' me!

Tarp. What tarp?

And why would I have to get up on my wagon to tighten my chain binders when I was thinking ahead at the shipper and put the binders on the side where I can reach them from the ground? I don't know how tall you are but I'm 6'1" and my trailer deck is only 59" high at the front and middle. 52" at the rear.
And what's so hard about climbing 3 or 4 steps onto a load anyway? At least on my trailer I'm not walking in urine puddles!

Straps always get protection on steel so forget about cutting.

I don't over-tighten chains. I meant if you want chains to stretch as much as straps you'd end up breaking a link from over tightening them.

Sheesh! All this 'splainin'! Happy New Year, Bud!