Anyone Ever See A Load Binder Like This One?

[alloy]

Picked this up yesterday. Got it and 25ft of chain for $30.

I have to move a mill this week and am a little leery of the spring.

Any opinions?

 

[FOMOGO]

I have quite a few, but none like that. Nice score, chain isn't cheap anymore. Mike

 

[Bill Gruby]

Flat Bed Car Haulers have that type around here. I wouldn't worry about the spring, I never saw a car fall off a hauler yet.

"Billy G"

 

[Silverbullet]

Take my advise if you use that type of binder either wrap extra chain around the lever when you set it . I've seen them bounce undone . We use only ratchet straps now plus I think the lever ones are not legal for hauling here in the criminal state of NJ . Or the sespool of the nation . Just hook the lever so it can not unlatch unless you do it. Bungee cords work . We know we lost a bobcat on a circle hear once lucky it didn't land on another car. Just be careful and put padding on the machine under the chain. Good luck we re waiting to see it ya know . Some of us live vicariously through others we want to but can't .

 

[jpfabricator]

I see them everyday in East Texas on chicken trucks.
They dont crush the chicken cages when they bind them down.
I have seen a chicken truck on its side, and none of the cages came off. There were a couple hundred chickens loose, running around in the intersection!

Sent from somewhere in East Texas Jake Parker

 

[alloy]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah chain and binders aren't cheap at all, especially good ones. The binder is a Lebus.

I am concerned that as the mill moves around the chain may loosen and let go on me because of the give that the spring allows. I am considering cutting the spring off and using a double clevis to atach the hook.

I always take a wrap around the binder handle. A hold over from my old days driving truck.

 

[ARKnack]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah chain and binders aren't cheap at all, especially good ones. The binder is a Lebus.

I am concerned that as the mill moves around the chain may loosen and let go on me because of the give that the spring allows. I am considering cutting the spring off and using a double clevis to attach the hook.

I always take a wrap around the binder handle. A hold over from my old days driving truck.

I'm not a trucker but I would think the spring system would be a better system as long as the spring is strong enough. The spring would apply a continuous force on your load regardless of it movement. Of course that may not be best for moving a mill, but for automobiles that will bounce on their suspension it would make since.

 

[tomh]

The spring keeps tension on the load and chain as it settles and helps prevent shifting on bumpy roads.
Don't cut the spring off but do be careful when using snap buckers as I have seen some nasty injuries from them snapping back when the pipe slipped off slapping drivers in the face. I used them in the 70's hauling heavy equipment I didn't and don't like them to this day as I have had some close calls myself.

 

[John Hasler]

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah chain and binders aren't cheap at all, especially good ones. The binder is a Lebus.

I am concerned that as the mill moves around the chain may loosen and let go on me because of the give that the spring allows. I am considering cutting the spring off and using a double clevis to atach the hook.

If the mill moves around the the spring will take up the slack, keeping the chain taut so that it won't let go. Without the spring a very small movement might suffice to make the chain go slack despite the large amount of tension initially applied because of the very high spring constant of the chain.

 

[middle.road]

And then there is the Import chain binders... I've taken to tying down the handles six ways to Sunday.
They seem to come loose no matter how well secured.
I was at an auction awhile back and six old domestic binders came up. They went for over $200.00

_Dan