Equipment chain jobs can fail

Andy Wickiser · Mar 18, 2017

Seems like chaining equipment down is a popular topic here. You hear about trailers that rolled and the tractor (or whatever) was still securely attached. Well here's one that got away from today's local (for me) paper.

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kcm.MN · Mar 18, 2017

I guess the pic wasn't chained down very well either. *LOL*

paul · Mar 18, 2017

Went to the Owatonna farm show yesterday, in the outside display area were a few items chained on a flatbed.

A small but heavy piece had one strap, the hook was not seated on the bar, it was just caught on a weld bump on the surface. So the strap hook tip was flush on the bar, not hooked on the bar.

Stuff like that happens, I suppose, every few thousand hookings.

Paul

flying belgian · Mar 18, 2017

Paul, I was at the show yesterday as well. Wasn't that Challenger tractor huge? Saw in a magazine article they list for around $480,000.

Equipment chain jobs can fail

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