Securement for wheeled rack

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  1. fourbugs

    fourbugs Bobtail Member

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  3. FullMetalJacket

    FullMetalJacket Road Train Member

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    Can't take a picture right now, but I carry a rubber ring set for my nursery loads when loaded on rolling cart/shelves. I'm guessing racks are 6/7' tall & weighty.

    Rubber rings that go around wheels & lever bar that lifts shelves up a few inches to slip them under the individual wheels.

    Still put up bars/straps as fail safe, but they pretty much do not move at all.
     
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    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    That don't look like much fun at all... if I remember , I have hauled some wheeled racks before but I don't remember what I did for securement.. I guess it depends how they are loaded, but if u could maybe get a strap around a group of them to kind of keep them together . Then you may just be able to strap over them and roll... or if you have wooden nailer boards on your flatbed , good time to put them to use and build some chocking
     
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    FullMetalJacket Road Train Member

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    Crap, did not catch the flatbed part of your post.

    I am completely inexperienced when it comes to flatbed securement.

    Sorry to confuse the situation.
     
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  6. CAXPT

    CAXPT Road Train Member

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    like @D.Tibbitt says, chocking at the wheel level, front and back, essentially caging them from movement back and forth without hitting each other and the chocking (also header front and back) and strap each tight to prevent the up/down left/right movement, and it can't hurt to do a slinky style looping with straps, through the bars of the second one. For the first, I'd probably have straps front and back pulling them inward.
     
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    CAXPT Road Train Member

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    Don't feel bad, this type of freight would typically be hauled in a van where all they have to do is use bars to stops it's backward/forward movement, but with flatbed you just have to get a little more creative to figure out how to implement Van style walling on a flatbed. :)
    :banghead:
     
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    201 Road Train Member

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    I agree, this would be for a flatbed considered as a $#!+ load, it really should be in a van. You know,,,a lot of work went into making these carts, and if I was the maker, I wouldn't want them on a flatbed for cripes sakes.
     
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