j_martell Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Umm....little help?Get the chains.....and tractor...or two or five lol Quote Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 damn what type of ground grows john deere's ? all my ground just grows rocks! maybe I need a green thumb? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 he wasnt gonna give in with out a fight !!!!!!!!!!Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Better warm up the excavator. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phase 1 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 he wasnt gonna give in with out a fight !!!!!!!!!!PaulYes, he fought much longer than he should have 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 This must have been taken around northern IL somewhere. Would be a typical pothole for around these parts.This must have been taken around northern IL somewhere. Would be a typical pothole for around these parts.Holy Shit!, thatll make you crap your pants, just riding along on a nice paved road and BAM! in a hole! 1 Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdudebrahx Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Saw this on Instagram today. 3 week old Pete with a spanish speaking fella behind the wheel. Lost it on the Jersey Turnpike.I see these guys running easily 90k all the time on airbags at the dump we run to. None of them are worth a damn behind the wheel. Always see em wearing shorts and sneakers when they get out of the truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Saw this on Instagram today. 3 week old Pete with a spanish speaking fella behind the wheel. Lost it on the Jersey Turnpike.I see these guys running easily 90k all the time on airbags at the dump we run to. None of them are worth a damn behind the wheel. Always see em wearing shorts and sneakers when they get out of the truck.That's a shame. Seems like a waste of a nice new truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted October 2, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2014 Looks like we can't even lift the mother in law off the couch with a crane. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 This had to hurt. I would image that box came crashing down in a hurry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 seen a guy do that in Everett Wa. years ago he had clay stuck in the box and was jacking the throttle and running the jake to get the tail gate slapping, hitter a little too hard and blew the packing gland and pile drove the ram threw the cab. He had re cabbed the truck and was back on site in 3 days! he used a backhoe to clean the box after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Damn! Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ws721 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Well it was a nice truck. Hate to see photos where drivers get hurt. But we all know it does happen in our profession. Quote Remember if it's got a hood it's no good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I saw this picture on the interwebs a year or two ago and e mailed it to our dispatcher. We were hauling a lot of mats like this at the time, mostly to West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I always put chains on mine, but a lot of guys would just use straps. You can't hurt them, they usually unloaded them with a track hoe, then they lay them on the ground and drive equipment over them. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Lots of chain and a headboard, Please. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 yep I would only use chains on some thing like that I reckon straps should be banned you get no feel as to how tight they really are like you do with ropes . I think the only reason they are trying to ban ropes some might (say they already have) is because most people dont know how to use them anymore and rather than people been forced to learn they just give them these poxy straps .Same with dogs they try and make us all use those poxy ratchet type dog instead of the older over center lever type of dogs because blokes just dont how to use them any more (I think you lot over there call dogs load binders ?) Paulwhat you fellas call a head board we call a hurdle out here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack mhe9 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Dogs that's a new one. Snap or ratchet binders over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 Chains, with two crossed over the front edges of the mats if it were me, coincidentally I have a friend that is working a deal to start building those and im in the loop for the haul within 500mi or the rail load out.paul, I never could get the hang of ropes, just couldnt keep em tight for some reason, and I keep a couple lever binders on the trailer but much prefer the ratchet type. I think lever type binders work ok on anything with some give like rubber tires but anything solid or on tracks i go all ratchet binders. 1 Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 c mon youngster they been called dogs long as i can remember` its just that everybody wants to sound educated nowadays 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 paul, I never could get the hang of ropes, just couldnt keep em tight for some reason, and I keep a couple lever binders on the trailer but much prefer the ratchet type. I think lever type binders work ok on anything with some give like rubber tires but anything solid or on tracks i go all ratchet binders.mate this is exactley what I mean once you are taught how to use ropes you will never go back to your ratchet strap ropes are so quick just as tight adjust to any length around any shape if its to short there easy to join its a shame because it is a lost art like tarping a load up until the mid to late 80's everything was shifted on flat top trailers in Australia and I reckon it was only the late seventys that trucks came with gates drivers new how to load stuff so it didnt fall off sad to say it but its too late now there wouldnt be enough blokes left to teach people now you need to learn to do a truckies knot as it is commonly known out here I think the proper name is a half shank you put a couple of these on top of each other and you can break a rope it gives you so much pulling power this fellas almost got it right have a lookiesee might even give you something to fill in some time on the week end and I guarantee once you work out how to do it you will throw them straps away it is so much quicker and a lot less chance of things falling off Paulhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkcOzCjuuUand Im not having a dig at anyone it is almost a lost art and it is good to learn this stuff from our not so distant past its all part of our history we dont want let it go by with learning it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Chains, with two crossed over the front edges of the mats if it were me, coincidentally I have a friend that is working a deal to start building those and im in the loop for the haul within 500mi or the rail load out.paul, I never could get the hang of ropes, just couldnt keep em tight for some reason, and I keep a couple lever binders on the trailer but much prefer the ratchet type. I think lever type binders work ok on anything with some give like rubber tires but anything solid or on tracks i go all ratchet binders.All the "real" steel haulers use ratchet binders. They can chain down a load of coils in a side kit trailer and have it covered before I get started good. Hand tightened is all you need, and there's no slack. We have the lever binders, or "snap" binders as we call them. You always seem to run into a chain being too loose, but too tight to get another link on the chain, so you get another binder out and double bind it on the other side. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted October 25, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2014 Straps work well on a load like this though. 5 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack mhe9 Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I don't think we alow ropes. DOTHER no no. No load limt. Hell if your yellow 4 ice strap losses its little weight Tage I hear you could get in trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ws721 Posted October 25, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 25, 2014 If you truck long enough you will find a DOT cop that will tell you everything is illegal somewhere along the line. It all depends on what their boss told them to look for that day as he wound up the key in their backs and sent them out to save America from us terrible truckers. Went to a load securement class put on by the DOT and other state agencies. They were more concerened about my antique plates than how I chained down my 5 pulling tractors. I said Why don't you let the IRS deterime if im making money at tractor pulling and you folks make sure the truck is safe for the road. I figured they would nasty to me after that comment but all he said was, YOUR RIGHT, GOOD POINT, 3 Quote Remember if it's got a hood it's no good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Way back in early days here at work, we used to only have a snap binder for our 1ton stakebed. Had a super trucker work for us for a short while. While using a pipe to unlatch it, instead of holding onto the back side of the pipe, he just pushed up on the pipe and it went airborne. Like 20+ feet and luckily I ducked, but another fellow employee didn't get out of the way in time and he got WHACKED!! Down for the count. Super trucker didn't even realize what he had done. Needless to say he didn't drive for us long.Snap binders are a PITA...twisting the chain til it got tight enough to latch good. We dont deal with big coils, but none the less you want to get it tight enough. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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