Re: Another trailer binder question

Posted by Billy NY on December 13, 2005 at 15:46:28 from (205.188.117.6):

In Reply to: Another trailer binder question posted by Pajamafied John on December 13, 2005 at 13:40:50:

You do have to use those over the center binders with care and respect, a lot of times you have to close them more than once to hook to the next link and make it tighter, until you get all the slack out. I've found them to be a pain, but just takes a little more time, never was a big deal, as long as I had something to do the job.

On the lumber trucks we used to used nylon straps for the framing order loads on the flatbed trucks for tie downs, with the winch type reels on one side. We would situate the lumber order on 4 x4 dunnage on top of the deck, wrap a chain completely around the order, protecting the corners with angle iron, used to stand on top and cinch that chain with the load binder and 4'-0" pipe ( over center type load binder ) until it was taught, then dump the load off and land it just like it was on the truck, let one end drop, place dunnage, let the front drop, then just pull the chain out, used to work great to drop a flatbed load of lumber without making a mess.
One thing I can warn people about with lumber and other freight is that if a fork lift operator is unloading one side of a trailer, don't be on the other side fiddling with your straps, rolling them up etc., trucker was in our yard, old timer was unloading his trailer and the fork hit and severed the metal banding of a unit, on the other half of the 2 unit wide loaded trailer, under the pressure the other metal band snapped and an entire unit of 2" x 12" x 16' pressure treated lumber released on top of the driver, crushing him badly, he lived, but was critically injured, probably disabled for life, we were all standing there when it happened, same goes for unleashing a load, be careful, structural steel is another one, especially if it's a sloppy load of weird sizes, soon as you release the binders, the sudden release of pressure can cause it to shift and collapse, just some things I've seen and or experienced along the way.

On lowboy's hauling equipment, it was always rubber tire machines that were a pain, they always loosen up. I found that using wood chocks and anything to help block the tires in addition to letting the ends of those ratchet binders out to the last thread, grabbing the farthest link you could reach and then cinch them tight until the tires squash out a bit, many times I did not have to retighten, depends how bad the road was usually. With any of that you must keep the lines tight, I always tried to lash equipment down in a fashion that allows me to pull against the opposing chains and binders, further tightening the load down, but not over do it either. Once something gets motion, you have some slack on your chain, straps etc., thats when you may have one fail, when they are taught, whatever it is can't get into motion, still does not mean it will stay on if you roll the trailer, but I'm sure many of you have seen the result of poorly tied down equipment or no tie downs at all, a guy I worked for lost a new JD 550 dozer some years on the back of a tag trailer, winter time, frosted deck, slid right off and was scrap after that, must have rolled or hit hard, could not believe it was destroyed. Not sure what gave, probably had no tie downs at all for all I know, lucky no one got hurt.

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