securement question

http://www.rkcampf.com/coil-suicide.htm

 

Around the frame of the trailer? What are you talking about? Going through the coil and wrapped around the belly of the trailer? Follow the link bubba provided.

 

Why would you want to do that? Even if legal.

 

So the chain not even hooked to trailer, just wrapped around it? Wow!

 

The frame is the strongest part of the trailer, so yes, it is legal to hook to the frame, but the thing is about flats and steps is usually, the stake pockets and spools are matched with the same WLL of your 3/8 g70 chains and binders. If you hook to the frame, you would still need the same amount of securement points as you would if you connected to the stake pockets and spools.

 

Sounded like he wanted to wrap all the way around it......but even still I wouldn't hook to my frame. That would just mar it up and introduce a place for rust and for the paint to start peeling.

 

Best to hook to far side of frame so you are pulling frame together, the alum. side rail is rated for 6,000lbs horanady driver got cut off and rolled on side with a single coil wrecker hooked to coil and turned truck back over by lifting coil hooked to frame that way.

 

I understand. Normally, I will use the pockets and spools, but there is that rare time where you have a wide WIDE load, on a flat or a step, where going to the frame gives me, IMO, a better downward pull.

One load that came to mind went from Milwaukee to Nogales. It was a load of crates about 14'6 wide. Throw your straps over it and pull down and back, you're looking at the frame. Sometimes, you have to do what you have to do. On a stretch trailer, that frame may be all you have.

 

When hauling skidded shacks on a stretch trailer I usually add a binder (sometimes with a very short tail chain, depending on the width of the load) somewhere in the middle of the skid to the frame. Generally speaking though, I don't use the frame any other time. Also, as mentioned in a previous post, hooking to the frame is putting a stress (sideways pull) that it wasn't necessarily designed for.