Securement (chains specifically)

I never untarped before they opened but I did have all but maybe 5 to 10 bungees off and all but a couple straps loosened or off.

 

Load securement is going to get me in trouble here with my big mouth and a stubborn streak.

If you had a wife and that wife held a 30 pound baby in the lap when your vehicle smashed into something, the G forces makes that baby for a few moments a thousand pounds if not more.

Now if you have a load like the 52000 pound coil on deck and hit a wall I think it will break loose. I just hope that by the time it either mashes me in the cab or flattens someone it gets it over with quick.

Evaluate your chain for working strain and also for breaking strength. I don't care to know steel or metal's hardness etc but it needs to talk to you by creaking a little bit now and then and you know you got it just so. If it is too hard and wont flex or accept a shift in weight loading during heavy breaking it will just snap. POP! Then the coil on there is gonna go aha.. mash time. No way.

 

thats fine, but no one should have to be woke up, I mean come on, be up at least & ready not in the bunk snoring. if someone does not know the hours, then find out. weather was good & this driver was there before, he knew just where to go, out of several doors he knew which door the forklift would unload from the side. these drivers should be made to pull out of the way & let the driver behind him who is ready to have steel unloaded right then, it's just ignorance. plain and simple

 

I definitely agree whoever is ready first should go first. Especially with my new trailer.

 

I feel stupid asking this question. I bought 3/8 inch chain from a trusted source about 2 months ago. Asked for G70. I'm looking at the links today, and they have BU7 inscribed on them. Is this the manufactures code for G70?

 

It's just how the manufacturer chooses to mark it. 7,70, or 700 is what matters.

BU is Ancra, Laclede would be L7, etc.

 

Exa

Exactly why I don't use them grd 100. I'd rather have warped chain links then the load in the back of the sleeper

 

Fair enough but this is one case and we don't know if grade 70's would have broke in the same situation. They may have broke quicker and not slowed the movement as much. I've been in a few hard brake situations I've yanked D-rings off twice but I've yet to break a 1/2" chain. I could count on one hand the number of chains of any kind I've broke in my whole career.

 

Had a d10 dozer stretch 2 1/2 inch chain once while swerving to avoid a moose that ran out in front of me . Grade 70 strech. Grade 100 break

 

Fair enough.