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Oh my word! Those are horrendous!
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Oh my word! Those are horrendous!
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exactly what I was thinking!
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I'll take your word for it. Not going to look. 
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Saw the (just) aftermath of a single coil load (the semi trailer was completely empty after the coil dismounted) hitting the Ohio turnpike. It pulverized the concrete roadway. Can see it in my minds eye as plain as day some 30 + years later. Luckily, only the roadway was harmed.
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I used to fly Steel Coils out of Gary Indiana in airplanes. They scared the crap out of me. I would throw every strap I had on them but if one let go in a airplane I would have been a greasy spot on the earth somewhere.
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I've always wondered why better securement systems aren't mandated. On that page there is a shot of a worker in a factory, transporting coil on a dolly that uses a large pin going through the centre of the coil - that looks like a much better solution.
I do my best to stay the _____ away from those coil loads on the road, they scare me silly.
Rgds, D.
I never pictured those shipping by air..... I'd sooner have snakes on the plane, if I was in the front seat !
Rgds, D.
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An airplane experience. Not scary, just funny and unexpected -
Long ago (1967) I caught a DC-3 from Ipiales (southern border town of Colombia) to Bogota. But things are a little random there, and there wasn't a seat for me until 'maybe tomorrow'.
I saw a second plane accompanying the first one. They said it was cargo only. I insisted, they said ok take that one if you really want to travel today. Turned out I was alone in the back of an unheated very cold plane. The airline seat was the ordinary kind but it was only one, with the rest of the space for cargo. ... My fellow travelers were all frozen whole sides of beef.
Long ago (1967) I caught a DC-3 from Ipiales (southern border town of Colombia) to Bogota. But things are a little random there, and there wasn't a seat for me until 'maybe tomorrow'.
I saw a second plane accompanying the first one. They said it was cargo only. I insisted, they said ok take that one if you really want to travel today. Turned out I was alone in the back of an unheated very cold plane. The airline seat was the ordinary kind but it was only one, with the rest of the space for cargo. ... My fellow travelers were all frozen whole sides of beef.
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Around that same time a friend of mine told me he was being transferred from a base in Germany to one in England. He boarded a C-47 in Germany. As they were crossing the English Channel he said he got to look out a window and below him he could see ferry boats passing them.