Strapping a trailer on a trailer

[jacobl741]

Should be fetching a 3 ton fergy trailer tomorrow, what’s the best way to strap it down onto our flat trailer? Cheers

 

[grainboy]

Pull all ways with decent ratchet straps

 

[puntabrava]

Strap around the back of both wheels at short distances off centre of wheel and pull the drawbar both ways off eye.

 

[FarmerFrank88]

The more straps the better

 

[Kidds]

I put one on the back of my Cabstar, wheels chocked and had the drawbar on a big lump of wood rather than rest it on the tailboard.
They are not heavy, simple strapping will do it but good to chock the wheels.

 

[Barleymow]

Moved an old transit once nailed the tyres to the trailer it was on

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Two pulling back, two pulling forward somewhere around the axle and one over the drawbar twisted back on it self to hold both ways

 

[Chickcatcher]

All you need to do is do it with confidence. Came home 100 miles with a weeks 6 ton grain trailer on a 16 foot Ivor trailer wheel just hung out a little, with a Nissan truck pulling it, ignorance was bliss. Was I over weight I have no idea but probably. Did reverse it on and draw bar hung out the back.
Down the M1 at about 40Mph so lorries got by easily. As it was the first time doing anything like this I was lucky, strapped with ropes had no problems, try doing it today and would I have managed the first 10 miles without being thrown of the road for a long time.

 

[Robt]

Just give them a twang and say “that ain’t going nowhere!” It’s what everyone else does

 

[76masseyman]

If it’s got the wooden sides still on it, check they’re secure as well. You can strap all you like the wheels and frame, but seen many bits fly off stuff being transported.

 

[nxy]

Once sold a Case 2188 combine to some Ukrainians, they arrived with a standard trailer not a low loader. They just said "where is crane" because apparantly all big farms in the old soviet block have a crane big enough to lift a combine. The combine was clearly too wide to drive on so with our help they took two days building ramps either side. It was driven up, the wheels removed and dropped on the deck. We lifted the header on with a forklift. Then I pointed to the header trailer . There was no way it would fit. They just wrapped straps around the combine and strapped it to the side of the already wide combine. They waited till dark to leave (it was mid winter) and said "no stop till Poland, German police very bad".

 

[jacobl741]

Made it with no dramas

if it’s on, it’s gone

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Can’t actually see the starp on your wheels but a good tip is you need the strap to pull both ways by taking the tail back over the first part in a similar fashion to how two links of chain are linked together. The strap then holds both ways. Can’t find a photo to show how!!!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

did I read somewhere, that for a load to be strapped correctly, both sides of the machine have to be strapped and pulled to the other side of the trailer? All pulling sort of diagonally from the four corners?

 

[TheTallGuy]

did I read somewhere, that for a load to be strapped correctly, both sides of the machine have to be strapped and pulled to the other side of the trailer? All pulling sort of diagonally from the four corners?

Well that's not how cars are strapped to recovery trucks... every load is different and needs to be assessed accordingly as to how the various forces act upon the load. A single strap placed correctly is generally more effective than blindly chucking straps around.

I once got pulled for an "insecure load", so I asked the officer how he would secure it & his response was along the lines of "I don't know, it's not my job", to which I pointed out that he wasn't in a position to determine it was insecure. Having driven 30 miles on suboptimal roads, there had been no movement of the load & everything was still tight. Reluctantly he had to agree!

 

[Oat]

Can’t actually see the starp on your wheels but a good tip is you need the strap to pull both ways by taking the tail back over the first part in a similar fashion to how two links of chain are linked together. The strap then holds both ways. Can’t find a photo to show how!!!

Yes, I have done something like that in the past. Initially I used to do an X shape in front of the wheel (pic 1), then I changed to crossing the straps at the middle of the X (like a chain link) (pic 2), and then latterly I have used a small strap with metal rings at each end to avoid the different straps crossing and wearing (pic 3).

Pic 3

In addition to strapping the wheels, the main point is to have straps pulling the object on the trailer in opposite directions. So have a strap at the front pulling forwards, and a strap at the back pulling backwards.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Yes, I have done something like that in the past. Initially I used to do an X shape in front of the wheel (pic 1), then I changed to crossing the straps at the middle of the X (like a chain link) (pic 2), and then latterly I have used a small strap with metal rings at each end to avoid the different straps crossing and wearing (pic 3).

Pic 3

In addition to strapping the wheels, the main point is to have straps pulling the object on the trailer in opposite directions. So have a strap at the front pulling forwards, and a strap at the back pulling backwards.

Yes, the second one is the one. You can use that with all manner of awkward machinery to pull both ways. It’s the third option that all recovery units etc have to use but it’s just the same.

Can be used on silly loads like this