Posted by scot in pa on November 07, 2009 at 00:36:14 from (12.171.162.28):
In Reply to: Re: Towing a Tractor posted by James Howell on November 06, 2009 at 08:41:05:
Here is a direct link.
If you have a book, pull it out and say, well, this is what it says, it shows you took the extra care to try to get it right. They can't do much of anything to you about straps if you have enough to cover the weight you are holding down with them.
The working load limits of the chains/ straps has to exceed such a percentage of the load weight forward, backward, and side to side. This book has all that information, a list of working load limits, and the "accepted" ways to chain down irregularly shaped objects.
I don't know if they have updated it to include the rules for binding bales. They passed rules specific to bales. The DOT was stopping guys and making them bind them down according to the new rules they came out with a couple years ago, and guys were losing them, so some people raised a stink and they made specific rules for them.
Some TA and most Flying J truckstops also carry this.
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