Snap binders.

It's all my company uses. Ratchet binders cost too much and require that drivers lube them regularly. We can barely get some of them to check their oil in the morning, doubt they'd spray 16 binders to keep them from seizing.

 

Heck, half the time I have to replace snaps, the swivels are seized up and you can't tighten the stupid thing up without it trying to rotate to the underside of the chain...

 

Does no-one carry lube anymore?

 

I do, but when they are already seized shooting them up with PB or WD40 doesn't always help.

 

WD40 isn't a penetrating fluid or a lube
Rusty binders suck, for sure

 

Just smack 'em with a mallet...usually frees 'em up just fine, then lube the swivel. If that doesn't work, soak 'em in some diesel overnight and try again.

I restored a pair of rusty shoe pullers my ferrier gave to me...so rusty you could barely open and close them, and he just didn't want to mess with them anymore. Soaked them overnight in WD-40 rust remover soak, wiped them down, then soaked them overnight again in diesel. They look and work like new.

 

Some of them work with that. Some I've grabbed were so seized up I couldn't bust em loose. I drop more loads at the yard than I deliver, so I'm more prone to let the yard guys fix bad binders than take em home and deal with them myself, but one of these days I should fill up a bucket with diesel for crap like that.

It most certainly is. It's designed as an anti corrosive, it isn't the world's greatest penetrant or lubricant but it certainly does function as both of those.

 

Keep in mind what you are going to use them for, i haven't used them in over 10 years moving equipment.
While they might be good for some, for me trying to double down at each end of a piece of equipment "Excavator for example" is near impossible because of the small area between the tracks, plus chains always loosen up and have to be tightened "I always re check them and it would be a nightmare to re set snap binders, ratchet binders just need to be re tightened.
Everyone has there own nitch in what they find works for them, trying to set a 1/2 chain and binder in a 6' area between a tracked machine doesn't work for me.

 

When I did orientation, I gave drivers a list of things to take with them in the truck, most of the "extra stuff" like spray lube, washer fluid, brake line antifreeze, diesel 911/antigel, etc was like watching deer in headlights. They didn't understand why they couldn't just buy it when they needed it and the company would just pay for it.

Our main CAT mechanic keeps telling me I'm special among our drivers, and now I know why.

 

Ummmmm...perhaps because "when you need it" you'll be lucky to find it for 3x the cost for 1/2 as much as you need.