oregon96pd
Well-Known Member
Silly way to think for on road hauling,chain it down and when you think you are done throw 2 more on. When I drove lowbed in the bush I would never chain down the load. If the road sluffs and you have a D8 or JD 892 excavator and it go's you are now chained to it, instead of it is chained to truck. Many times I would be 100-200 feet from creek as the crow flies but I was also 4,5,600 feet above it. I think most log truck drivers would wait as well until they were at the paved or public road and throw the binders on there while checking the truck out.
Most log truck drivers do that here to, but I always thought it was to allow the logs to settle in on the ride down to blacktop....less stopping and retightening on the trip to the mill. Not to much to worry about with a log truck, the logs are never strapped to the truck, only to themself and gravity holding it on the bunks lol.