Re: Chain Size For Trailer Tie-down Of An M?

Posted by the tractor vet on November 01, 2008 at 21:53:50 from (75.19.124.30):

In Reply to: Chain Size For Trailer Tie-down Of An M? posted by Red Mist on November 01, 2008 at 15:20:08:

Well on this subject i know vary well as along with knowing I H tractors inside and out I have spent a good part of my life running the roads hauling farm equipment along with some really big oversized loads and i used G70 5/16ths on most of the loads till we got over the 120000 lbs range then we would use the 3/8 and the 7/16 G70 as the G 70 is the only chain approved as transport grade .For hauling and M even a fully loaded M 2 5/26 would be legal BUT one thing that most guys do not do is add the third chain for 60 % hold back in case of a wreck . Now to be safer then use 4 5/16 X pulling away from the ft and away from the back a bit . Ya want to figure that around 4000 lbs per chain on a 5/16 and 4500 on a 3/8 And that was the guide line that i fallowed when loading a big one as to just how may chains to hang on it . When hauling any implement say like a disc ya want a chain every 4 foot . Say that you are hauling a loader tractor and lets say that it is a Ferge 30 with a loader Two 5/18 chains will do for the tractor BUt ya need a chain over the loader also then say that it has a brush hog on the three point then ya need a chain over the three point arm and also one over the brush hog . I use to haul a lot of new Cat equipment out of N. C. and when ya hauled say a skid steer how how may chains ans binder do you think ya need on a5500 lbs skidsteer ???? Five yep thats correct 4 Xed and one over the loader arms Took 25 chains and binder to haul 5 skidsteers out of the plant. Haul and articulate loader that say weighed in at 32000 and ya had to have two xed for the ft. two Xed on the back two in the middle one over the loader arms and one on the bucket and one holding back . Now one other think to keep in mind here If something ever does happen i do not care how many good chains and binder ya have on the load IFit wants to come off that trailer or truck bed SHE IS COMING OFF. In the days of the Oil Patch i was out a couple times where a guy was tryen to back into a lease road with a D6D or a D7F on a float trailer and maybe the culvert collapsed and they layed trcuk and trailer with dozer still hanging on the deck with only 4 5/16 chains one on each corner of the tracks and we would take my dozer and throw the winch line over the trailer spool out some line set in and bring everything back up on its wheels Then other time i have seen them with 8 3/8 chains come off in a curve and never flip the truck or trailer . But for all the tractor hualen that anybody on this site does if they carried 8 Good G 70 5/16 chains and 9 binder that will get the job done . Now if ya want to LEARN how to do this then Please get with a PRO that hauls equipment and let him show ya the ropes . Oh one other point here myself i prefer ratchet binders , Yes takes a bit more time to snag down a load BUT once ya have it down it is down plus ya will never take a binder pipe to the head or side of your face and get knocked into the next area code.

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