scary trailer load

[RobertN]

There has been a lot of talk here lately about trailers, securing loads, how many binders ect.

Well, I saw a good one today!

Saw a guy pulling a 16' flatbed, that looked just like mine. 7000lb capacity, dual axle. He had what looked like a couple dozen 16' 2x6's on it. The 2x6's were banded together; looked like something the lumber yard might have done. The load though, was just sitting on the trailer. There were no ropes, no ratchet straps, no chains, no string.

Nothing was holding the load except gravity. I had to look twice, because I could not believe someone would do that.

Yikes

 

[burnetma]

I took a load of 1x stock to reside my barn from the local sawmill on a 16' flatbed just last year. When I got out the straps to secure the load down, the sawmill owner and the forktruck driver both laughed at me. I simply responded that I wanted to do it safely and without a ticket.

 

[JB4310]

Yeah, I wouldn't get to crazy binding a load like that down, But I sure wouldn't just go bare back.

Though now that I have the chain and binders, it would be so easy to throw one on the front and one on the back.

JB.

 

[wkpoor]

While everyone is worrying about loose loads have you ever thought about all the thousands of landscapers and mower people who never tie down their mowers between jobs. I know a dealer that has never tied down a mower on his trailer. He says the railings will keep it on.

 

[Dmace]

Now this is a scary load.

 

[NuBota]

Now this is a scary load.

DMace, I am ashamed to say this one was from my neck of the woods. My neighbor was at the Home Depot when this knucklehead was loading up. HD made him sign a waiver and refused to help him load it. Good old Waldorf, MD 15 mins of internet fame/shame.

 

[jimainiac]

Dmace - Congrtatulations for dredging that picture up. I remember that one from a couple of years ago. It even made the website, snopes.com, that checks on the truth of pictures and stories circulating on the interenet, and they pronounced it to be true.

Once upon a time in a previous life I went to the lumberyard and got a whole bunch of 3/4" particle board 4'x8' sheets for flooring, in a shortbed pickup. I wasn't going far so I didn't bother tieing them down. I popped the clutch from a stop sign in the middle of town and dropped the load right there. I didn't realize how slippery that stuff is!

 

[chh]

Once upon a time in a previous life I went to the lumberyard and got a whole bunch of 3/4" particle board 4'x8' sheets for flooring, in a shortbed pickup. I wasn't going far so I didn't bother tieing them down. I popped the clutch from a stop sign in the middle of town and dropped the load right there. I didn't realize how slippery that stuff is!

Thats funny, I once picked up 3 4x8 sheets of 3/4 plywood and 3 or 4 sacks of quickcrete out of the middle of a turn lane at a stoplight. Somebody had apparently done the same thing 3 blocks from a local Lowe's. I guess they thought the QC would keep the plywood from flying out and never thought of the sliding part.
I probably should have left it for the owner to claim, but that didn't seem to be the opinion of the nice officer who helped me load it to get it out of the street.

 

[NuBota]

Dumbest/funniest one I saw was two guys in a Celica, manual tranny, with a single 4x8 sheet of plywood on the roof. Tie-down was one hand out each window holding on to the sheet. They almost lost it a few times over a two mile stretch

 

[JB4310]

Dumbest/funniest one I saw was two guys in a Celica, manual tranny, with a single 4x8 sheet of plywood on the roof. Tie-down was one hand out each window holding on to the sheet. They almost lost it a few times over a two mile stretch

I see that one all the time around here, it's interesting when it's drywall tied down, but starts curling up in the head wind getting ready to snap.
How many mattresses have we seen on the side of the road.