What if I told you that safety chains are for decorations. What would you say to that. Before you say a ting, I will explain. I was a transport truck driver for 13 years, and I have driven pretty well all over North America, both sides of the border. I have seen a lot of accidents, between smaller vehicles pulling trailers, everything from U Hauls, to boats. Most preventable due to safety chains, properly installed, or not. I have also seen dump trucks pulling pup trailers, lose a pup trailer, because the eye broke at the pile. It was loaded with gravel, and it veered off to the right, good thing, the tongue plowed into the shoulder, and flipped end over end into the ditch. Gravel every where, nobody hurt, but was scary on a three lane highway. The safety chains snapped like nothing. Now back to my theory. The trailer manufactures don't put the heaviest safety chains on their trailers. That is why I call them decorations. Every trailer I have purchased, I upgrade my safety chains. If you have seen the things that I have seen, you would too. My boat trailer has a real old, and heavy 12' aluminum boat on it. I put grade 70, 5/16" safety chains, with grade 70 hooks. It had 1/4" light chains on it. I have a 5' x 10' tandem axle, box trailer. It had 5/16 light grade safety chains on it. I put grade 70, 3/8 safety chains with grade 70 hooks. I also have a tandem axle car trailer I converted into a deck over. It had 3/8 light chains, and I installed grade 70 3/8 safety chains with grade 70 hooks. I'm seriously thinking of upgrading to grade 70, 7/16 safety chains and grade 70 hooks, because I haul tractors on it. My own, plus my customers tractors. I've seen wagons loaded with wheat, or corn for whatever reason, leave home with no forwarding address, come UN hooked, and the safety chain failed. I always try to use a safety chains with a heavier safe working load, than what I am actually pulling, on the trailer. I don't use a heaver breaking strength chain for load what I'm pulling an the trailer. That's where I feel there is the problem Trailer manufactures look at the breaking strength of chain, But the chain could have a weaker link in it. That's why I use safe working load. I've always used chains that had a high working load, when I used to haul semi flat bed trailers. I always felt, when a car went by, that could be my family going by, not somebody Else's, and I always wanted to make sure my loads where secure for that reason. My thoughts any way.
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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