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When I used to work for a Pontiac dealer, I was in charge of recycling and used my old Ford F150 with helper springs on the back. I was taking a load of suspension parts and brake rotors to the scrapyard when I noticed my truck was slowing up on grades. Found the answer when I got there - instead of the scraps usual 1500 pounds, it weighed 3300 pounds!

The importance of chains, tiedowns

Also my former neighbor was hauling a van to the scrapyard. He tied down the front of the van to the trailer, put the van in park. He came back a short time later.. when he stopped at a light the van kept going forward into the back window of his SUV he was using to haul it. Took them about 2 days to get the van untangled out of the SUV and trailer.
 
There was a thing in the news this past year from the Twin Cities. A guy working for a landscaping company was convicted of negligent homicide. An unsecured rock or paving brick had fallen off of a trailer he was towing and killed someone in another car. Sad part was the guy was ticketed a year prior when an unsecured rock fell off of his trailer in front of a cop. Guess he was just in a rush.

When I was at Ft Knox a truck load of crushed cars fell off a semi trailer and crushed 4 or 5 people on the interstate in Louisville. Company policy was 3 chains and binders per stack of cars, driver only put one per.

Some people are just in too much of a rush and get careless.

Rick
 
i put our scrap metal out in a box for the scavengers to pick up. one day we had two old guys in a mid 1970's half ton chevy pickup all rusted out come pulling in. had a full load of junk on the back, and strapped down on top of it all was an old dodge omni car. back bumper of the car was just about dragging the ground. they asked if i had any scrap metal. i said to them, you dont have any more room on that truck. they said they could fit stuff inside the junk car. they prolly had 3 tons on that old truck.
 
I see a lot of guys running around with skid steers on trailers with a 2" nylon strap over the bucket as the only hold down. Works until it don't I guess. Sold a JD 850 tractor to guy one time. We had it all repainted like new so the guy studied awhile how to tie it down. Finally he came with a 1 inch nylon strap and was going to put it over the top of the fenders. He was going 300 miles with it and I just couldn't let him do it that way. He he hawed around about hauling stuff all over the country and never having a problem. Finally after more discussion about tying things properly, he pulls 2 brand new gold chains out of his truck and 2 new binders. Just being lazy as you say.
 
I was unloading my M/F and mower at a mowing job when I first started mowing. I parked on a hill set the brakes on the truck. As I backed off the weight of the tractor and mower raised the truck rear wheels off of the ground. The truck started foreward and hit a parked car. Another time I was hauling the same tractor I had one chain on the front, and a chain on the rear. Brakes set on the tractor. As I was traveling the binders ratteled loose. I stopped at a stop sign, on a hill. When I took off the tractor rolled off in the road. The brakes are almost worthless on that tractor in reverse, but worked just enough to stop the tractor. Loaded the tractor back up in record time before the cops showded up. I am sure the guy behind me wondered what the heck is going on. stan
 
Bought an old steel storage shed from a customer of mine. 8' X 10' X 6' tall. Just enough rust did not want to take it apart. Took long boards and set it up on the box. Had a chase car behind me, only going 2 miles, but right thru town! Police stop me on a side street, explain the situation, chase car, he was convinced so let me go. I had stopped under a tree, upon moving again, it falls off! Finally got it home, used it for 15 years!
 
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