Load binders

moresmoke

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They've done it! Someone created a load binder everyone can hate...
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Appears to be screw type rather than over center style. I've been told that some companies have outlawed the lever style due to injuries when closing and opening. Lets here from the commercial haulers for clarification.
 
I drove for a commercial carrier and pulled van body trailers . We hauled coils of steel, brass and copper. Also hauled large electric fork lifts,bundles of steel rods and bundles of lead ingots. We blocked forklifts and put empty 4 way pallets between coils to space them out in trailer but never used chains, strapping or banding in trailers.
 
That's one cheesy looking binder. Before I scrapped all old over center binders that we haven't used in ages I made sure they could never be used again.
 
(quoted from post at 04:09:53 12/08/17) I drove for a commercial carrier and pulled van body trailers . We hauled coils of steel, brass and copper. Also hauled large electric fork lifts,bundles of steel rods and bundles of lead ingots. We blocked forklifts and put empty 4 way pallets between coils to space them out in trailer but never used chains, strapping or banding in trailers.

Just because you did it that way doens't mean it was the best idea in the world. In a van trailer or on a flatbed, tie down requirements still apply, especially with some of the stuff you mentioned.
 
Lead blocks leaving a plant near me have nothing more than 2x4's nailed to the floor of the van trailers to keep them from sliding. Been that way for over 60 years.
 
In all my years of farming, had equipment delivered or picked up, had excavators and tiling equip. And backhoes or dosers I have only seen the overthe center type load binders used. I know they have the racheting type but not once saw one used by commercial or private hauler that I can remember.

Joe
 
Weird style. At work all our trailers and low boy have ratchet binders. At a previous job the bosses son was using a snap binders with a cheater pipe. Pipe slipped off and knocked out a bunch of his teeth. Many laughed about it behind his back afterward. He was a know it all jerk and not well liked.
 
You haven been around a LTL carrier very much. The van trailers have no place for chains,banding or straps. You can use load bars but walls flex so much that
most of time they won't hold. They do have a rail system on walls for a load bar that hooks into rails and of the over hundred trailers we had there were only
several trailers like that. We hauled coils with 4 way pallets to space them out and blocks of wood nailed to floor to block forklifts.I was stopped a number of times and DOT said not a word. The only loads that they were picky about were Haz-Mat loads.
 
I have seen some vans with D rings and other means to tie things down with, one place i loaded some lead ingots, they said i could use the automatic nailer and the 2x4's, well long story short, i had to use the breaks hard and all the lead slid to the front, but that was before they put the D rings in them.
 
We used 4 way pallets between between bundles of lead ingots to space them out so that we were legal on drive axle. I drove commercial LTL carrier and several of friends did to but different carriers and none of them would add D rings to trailer. The only way you might see D rings is if carrier bought a new trailer that all ready had them in it.
 

There is nothing to hate about either style. You just need to know which binder is best for any particular application. When I'm hauling tractors or other machinery that is equipped with pneumatic tires, I use the over-center style. When hauling something that cannot be compressed, I use the ratchet style. When hauling crated items, a ratchet strap works the best.

I always use a cheater bar on the over-center style, and keep my head out of the way.
 

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