Straps or chains on plate steel???

If your using chains you should use steel edge/chain protectors. That will protect the plate/sheets and protect your chains.

 

Got one better than that. Saw a driver pulling a lowboy with only 1 4in strap through the front towhooks of the dump truck

 

I would and do use chains with steel, the steel has a really bad habit to rub and cut into in to the straps even with protection. And that rubbing wears out and stretches the straps at key points and can and will cause a strap to break at any time.

So when you haul a non steel load with the same strap used on the steel load, It could break on you even if there is no damage to be seen a first glance when you were rewinding the straps.

Steel is a very unforgiving and needs to treated with respect.

If you don't, then all hell could break lose all over the road and all over your but for not doing right the first time.

 

Guys we all have to use chains on steel. Ever seen a 48,500 pound coil held down by straps??? Make an X or a BRA securement in the front...and back also if needed. Forward and aft movement...remember the rules. Throwing straps will cost u cash when u mess with steel. No strap will put the downforce and tightness of a chain. Why risk big bubba being your boyfriend in prison when u kill someone for being lazy. Use your head, flatbed drivers are smart. Thats why we love it more than door slamming!!!

 

Im just a rookie, so i tend to overdue it on securement, but here is a pic of some plates i hauled.

 

fedup, you havent read the thread have you?

the discussion isnt about coils, its about flat plate. read the thread and learn something.

and does anyone know that restrition from forward and rear movement includes more than just chains?? the rubber friction mat counts to stop that also as does the friction encountered from a piece being placed on dunnage,

it doesnt mean that forward or rear movement is restrited only by cross chains . how the heck do you cross chain a load of plastic or steel pipe???

and not every load of steel requires chains. heck crane booms are steel, put a chain on them and you just bought it.

and fedup , if you follow your line of reasoning you would use chains on everything.

this gets better all the time.

 

He was hourly...And the load had to be there like "yesterday".....

 

Seriously though....The S/B Coop at San Clemente had a picture of a tractor with the roof caved-in from a D-8...The driver thought that since he was only moving it a couple miles down the road...One chain would work just fine......

 

Nothing is overdone if it's your safety and the safety of those around you....

Secure your loads so that even if God forbid....You roll that wagon...The load will still be secured to the deck....

 

that is not rookie work, we cannot run load-tension measurement nor read the branding on the strap as well as something like A.N.S.I. or A.S.M.E. / A.S.C.E. average tensile strength but first thing I notice is edge protection and will ask what material is used for them & next question would be who is the supplier for the straps and is it obvious they are either new or in decent condition?.....

but if those "pass" then you need to move to "intermediate" rating or above as that is not rookie work ~ beware standards organizations that are only some reason for having label on product....