 all right okay back in old blue look at my load ready to leave with in a couple of days i'm gonna be at home for a couple of days got a whole bunch of errands to run and work to do in the house get ready for the baby work on the nursery you know that kind of stuff so i'm gonna be working on that but in the meantime i want my next load it's already in the yard i want it to be tied down and ready to go so that i can just go when it's time to go i can still hook up and take off we are looking for trailer 529 reels one of this is that that would be nice it's already tied down 529 113 shoot won't be that 529 will be a flatbed too that was 113 that was a step that i think this will be it right here it'll be my reels 529 that's it and it's not tied down no just the first and last one just to make sure they don't roll away i'm gonna tie that down secure get it all ready to go right now so that when i'm actually leaving with this i can just hook up and go that's kind of hoping it would still be tied down but that's not the way things go around here now we all have our own equipment like all my equipment is my equipment so if i brought this here like these were picked up in Saskatchewan if i pick them up i take my equipment back because it's my equipment the next driver uses his equipment and that way if the load is tied down it's his load securement right and if anything happens it's his fault it's not mine because he tied it down i didn't tie down that he just drove away with the way i boomed you get it right get it all right well it's not going to tie itself down 11 chains and these two straps that's what it's going to take these were already on here i'm going to remove them for now so i can get to that hole in the center got my chains over here already i'm going to do two chains here chain chain chain chain chain chain chain two chains at the back each one of these reels looks like it's about 900 kilograms each which is 2 000 pounds so we're looking at about 4 000 to 4 200 pounds per so our load securement should be good and i'm using our tarping station here at our yard we have these sticks here right i have one over here that i'm using this is a long stick let's see we've got a hook on the end that's why i got to move this strap out of the way so first of all what you do here is you take this long stick with that hook you stick it through there it's easy to do it from up on the platform here then you can get an eye level when you're on a flatbed through there you can make sure it pokes all the way through and you walk around to the other side it's a lot of walking in flat you walk around to this side you walk around to that side i've got all my equipment here already waiting working our way back from the front i've just got i've got this front one done already i'm working my way into this one and now you see the hook came through there let's now take the chain it's a little bit high but here's hook that on there like that and then you walk back around to the other side like i said lots of walking we're not door swingers we're flatbed haulers now that we're back here we'll back up the steps make it a little easier grab one of this and you just pull it through like that there you go see it's easy enough i could do it with one hand so i'll show you how these binders work they're called bear traps some people like the ratchet binders better i like these bear traps better you got to make sure that you have these to secure them just in case i've never ever had one pop open never heard of it happening but of course it's happened to somebody so you've got to have those locks on there then make sure that that doesn't pop open i'll show you how they work i'm just doing this one here right now you see you open it up and you hook the top one as high up as you can get it and you stretch it out when that goes up this thing stretches out you hook this on down here and then this should be pretty tight right i could never do this just with my own strength like this wouldn't happen so i'll put you down over here i'll show you how i do it so this is your wrench or your strap bar whatever you want to call it what can i not think of the word for it right now winch no vice no there's a special name for this bar i'm drawing a blank right now anyways this tightens the straps usually right on this end right you ever wonder what this ends for it's for the chains watch well this goes in through the back and hooks in there like this see that it's hooked in there okay then okay so that's too loose sometimes it's hard to find just the right tightness with these that's why people like the ratchet binders better i totally understand that i like them too for that reason but maybe i'm a little old school i like the i like the bear traps i like the danger those things can whip open and smash your teeth out at any moment if you're not careful i like living on the edge i guess i don't know you don't want to take too much you don't want to take too little it's just so much of a better feeling when it snaps into place than the ratchet ones give you there we go we'll put the lock on there like that so that can't fly open on us now i can put my face right here i don't have to worry about it smashing my face because it's got the lock on it so i'll quickly explain to you my method how i'm training these down sometimes you can use straps through the center ones as long as you use chains on the front ones and the back ones but since i'm going a little ways with these i'm using all chains i don't want to mess around right these things are not going anywhere not on my watch anyway they're only going where i'm going to tell them to go they will obey so the front one always gets too right and the way i have these chains this one's slightly off center and this one's more off center right we want to pull the one this way so it doesn't roll into my cab if i have to slam on the brakes okay then this one this chain i have slightly off center it's pulling it against this here so these two are locked together they're holding each other in place and holding each other down plus there's damage here holding them in place it's not going anywhere then i do the same thing with like these two here see that one's a little off center that one's a little off center it's holding those two together i'll do the same here hold those two together and hold those two together and then two chains on the back one one slightly off center to the back and then one more more much more of an angle holding on that way so it doesn't roll off right and they're all touching they're all exactly the same size and they're all touching so in order for one of these center ones to roll off the back one would have to roll off and all of them behind it would have to then they're all pinned together right even though i'm chaining like two like two together at a time this one here and that one there even though these two are pinned together and those two are pinned together the load is so tight on the trailer that this is still touching here too so there's absolutely no way for it to wiggle so these chains are rated at 6500 pounds each and it's holding in place like i said earlier about 4 000 pounds that's the way i do it all blue is running so that's a good sign means we're done so we've got the two chains plus the strap holding it down in between that done itch on the front and the back and all along here got every single roll chain down we are ready to rock so we're definitely not leaving today but i got it done now because i'm going home for over 36 hours which is a reset in the u.s you only need 34 hours to reset i realized but in Canada it's a 36 hour reset so now that this is tied down and it meets my requirements i'm gonna park it i'm gonna go and do my reset and then i'm gonna come and hook up and go i don't have to waste time on my next 70 hours tying it down see what i did there i'm trying to save time for next week i don't know how fast you guys are but uh let's see that took me an hour and 39 minutes probably not the fastest but i'm not the slowest so that's how i chain down my reels now you see sometimes guys like i said put straps on the center uh reels which when it comes to weight wise it works there's only 4,000 maybe 4,500 pounds uh with the two reels and each strap is rated at 5,400 pounds so really you only need a strap in there but i'm taking this load into Ontario it's gonna be two days drive it's a little bit further than they usually go and i want to make sure that these things aren't going to go anywhere i don't want to take any risks because a strap could fray it could break there's no way a chain is going to fray and it's very unlikely that it would break they're rated at a lot more weight like i said 6,500 pounds per chain these reels aren't going to go anywhere with those chains on there and i don't have to worry about going through these two-lane highways in Ontario and having one real fly off into oncoming traffic or something it's a big mess a lot of paperwork so i'm going to be home for a couple of days yet day or two but i already explained it i went and picked that load up now and tied it down now so that i can have my reset on my log book and start all i gotta do is go hook up to the trailer and go now as long as no one messes with it but you know i'll check it before i leave obviously but no one's gonna touch it hook up and go and i don't have to spend part of my my 70 hours from next week tying that down because i think like i said it took an hour and what i say 39 minutes just over an hour and a half oh excuse me i want to leave early in the morning so i don't worry about doing that so thanks for watching everybody and i'll see you in my next video