what would you do differently

You can cross chain the front of shotgun and suicide slinkys with 2 chains and 3 binders. I'll try to find or edit that pic tonight if nobody shows you by then

 

You mean, he was distracted? And they should ban/prohibit anything that distracts.

It was a shart. He lifted his left leg and let her rip. Then he felt a full on mudslide. "Dang you, Carl Jr's!"

Carl Jr is the devil! Let ban gassy food! And drivers should be required to take a methane test before their shi(f)t. And somewhere, some moron will tell you how much safer the roads are since he's no longer allowed to fart in a commercial vehicle.

 

I think pics like this bring about good conversation that we can all learn a thing or two from.

I do believe that in a situation like this though there is not much a guy can do to prevent what happened.

 

This is how I do a safety chain on slinkys, steel plate, stone, tanks etc. you can also do the same thing with another set of chains on the rear of load.



First thing, take 1 green chain, attach each hook to trailer so that the hooks are slightly to the rear of the front of load. Hooking here creates 4pts of contact when the chain is tightened (yellow arrows).
After attaching green chain, climb up on deck and stretch it out across the load so that it forms a "v" and lay it on the load.
Get 2nd chain (white one) and pass 1/2 of it thru the first chain to create an "X"
Attach each hook of the 2nd chain to trailer at equal locations, then attach opened binders to both sides of white chain.
Go back up front and adjust green chain and hook an open binder to the front.
Go to the sides and tighten both binders on white chain and last tighten the one across the front.
It sounds like a lot of steps but it takes less than 10 mins once you get the hang of it.

 

@TripleSix's suggestion of loading shotgun at the front is a good one. However, where I load slinkies they need to be loaded a certain way depending on which receiver it's going to so I wouldn't be able to do that.

 

Hey DG, how fast is your truck? And do you have cattle prods and drive cams?

 

The only camera in my truck is my own dashcam. No 'cattle prods' and it's limited to 65 mph because that's the maximum by law here!

 

I'll agree with baha. If you use chains on coiled rod, be sure to use lots of thick padding. And maybe even stop when close to the consignee and remove the chains so they never see chains on it. A lot of that stuff is heated and pulled into thinner material. Like baha said, anywhere there is a chain nick, it'll break while being extruded. That really messes up production. Some of those places will reject the load outright if they see chains. They won't even look for padding or damage.