Guess the tractor wasn't tied to trailer!

Riverslim

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Looks to me that they got off easy.

The rear chains are the most important, they will keep the tractor from crushing you in event of fast stop.

There are some that just strap across and let brakes hold, bad idea.
 
How do you know the tractor wasn't going faster than the vehicle and distracted by a cell phone and ran into the back side of the trailer/vehicle? LOL
 
(quoted from post at 15:28:44 07/10/18) You obviously don't know much about straps.

JDdrawbar I know about straps and their ratings, but apparently you are not familiar with YTDOT rules.
 
Don't matter how it was tied down or even if it was tied down. What matters is that it didn't stay whee it was supposed to be.

And you can laugh and joke all you want. Suppose that tractor came off and went into oncoming traffic. Suppose the vehicle it hit had your mo or dad, sister or brother, your wife, your kids maybe your grand kids in it? Would it be funny then?

Rick
 
Well at some point the Tractor was going faster than the truck. Thats kinda obvious. That driver should have known better to try and out run a tractor with a Ford and pulling a trailer and with a camper shell on the truck. To much extra weight. :
 
is that what they call a heavy hauler? even has the endgate open... hummm. or is the trailer just to hold the back wheels up? must be running hot with that load, has the hood open to!ooh well its F.O.R.D.
 
It doesn't matter what you use for tie downs, often there is a chance the crash will cause forces significantly higher than the rating of the chains/straps.

I don't know how heavy that load was, how fast they were going or how suddenly it stopped but here is an example of force applied to a vehicle in a crash.

A 6000lb vehicle traveling 60mph suddenly stops in a 6ft distance will have a force of 13.5 tons, that is 27,000 lbs. Double those numbers if you cut the stopping distance in half.
 
There are skid marks under the vehicles, and the damage to the front of the pickup and the rear of the car are substantial, but not enough to suggest the pickup was traveling at highway speed and hit the car when it was stopped. The both vehicles were probably moving when they hit and the pickup pushed the car for some distance as they slowed. That should not have been enough to break the tractor loose if it had been well tied down. I wonder if any tie downs were used at all?
 
A load moving suddenly in any direction can put a tremendous load on the chains. When we hauled combines we had to cinch them dome very, very tight or chains would snap if the truck went in a dip or railroad tracks fast. THe combine would squish down the tires when the trailer came out of the dip and make the chains go slack. Then when compressed tires pushed the combine back up it would snap chains.
 

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