On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Mike Rambour wrote:
> and when you get lucky and I mean really lucky, the car rolls off the
> trailer on the freeway offramp and comes to a stop with minimal damage...a
> few hundred yards earlier I would have been to 60, instead I was doing 10mph,
> like I said lucky. This was with the chassis strapped down tight, but I
> guess not tight enough since a downward bounce allowed the hooks to come
> loose and the straps came off.
At risk of sounding like a paid shill, which I am not. Use snap hooks,
which cannot disengage. Relying on tension alone to maintain attachment
is risky, as you discovered.
<http://www.lodimetals.com/2-standard-handle-ratchet-wsnap-hook>
Of course you can buy those from any number of vendors, but these are
the best quality I've seen, and frequently cheaper than made-in-China
crap.
Out of random curiosity, how did the door open? Or are we talking
about a beavertailed open trailer here?
--
David Hillman
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