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[aeblank]

Safety factor of the attachment should handle the decel. It's probably 4x rated.

 

[Sysop]

That too, the stuff is made beyond the rated capacities to take into account the various impacts and stresses of road use and age. They use the straps because straps will stretch and recoil some given impact type stresses, lessening and absorbing some of the shock from the other components. I fully trust that the scenario I've been describing would make a 3500-5000lbs load act as if it were part of the trailer and would stay combined even during a crash, as I've personally seen a couple instances of it happening.

 

[Soundguy]

Certainly won't hold it in a crash, but I doubt your trailering rig is going to be doing more than 1g in deceleration (in fact, it's going to be considerably less) in which case your 3500lb vehicle is going to put less than 3500lb of force on the straps (3500lb hanging in air on a strap is experiencing 1g, just as a strap trying to hold a car back that's decelerating at 1g is).

Plus, your 3500lb vehicle is presumably being restrained by more than one attachment point, right?

Yup.. he's thinking someone is going to only hold down in one place for some reason.

 

[looch]

Yes - I clearly didn't think this one through.

More rotten tomatoes, please - I'm almost out.

 

[ning]

Yes - I clearly didn't think this one through.

More rotten tomatoes, please - I'm almost out.

When my tomatoes rot, I toss them in the compost and grow something good with them later.
Seems to happen a lot more than it should, but at least good things eventually result.

 

[California]

Always tie down your load ...

 

[Creamer]

Why? Getting rid of it made for a lot less momentum before the impact.

 

[California]

Comments at the source for that video, started with NSFW Yo Mama-type crudeness so I'm not going to link to it. But later comments point out his tractor's left rear brakes locked, perhaps caused by a broken air line, and sent him left regardless of steering right. Also the load slides partly off the right side of the trailer before diving off the left side so it couldn't have been secured very well. Here's where you can dig around if you want to go find the comments yourself.

 

[fordmantpw]

Depending on what's on the other side of the guard rail on the right, losing his load may have kept him from going over the edge and may have saved his life.

 

[California]

Likely.

I think its likely if the load remained secured,the weight would have flopped the rig onto its left side as it swerved right. Or possibly flipped it on its left side as it skidded down the guardrail.

I agree the actual outcome had less risk for the driver than these alternatives.

We don't know what happened to oncoming traffic.