can anyone tell the me legal requirments for NSW AUS in rergards to strapping down my 3.5 ton excavator ? at the the moment i have a dog and chain going over the front tracks (they are rubber) and a tie down strap going over the back tracks and also i have a tiedown strap going over the bucket. they are all in the right kg rating for my sive ex.. i just wanted to know is this enough and legal ? i dont have no anchor points on my excavator front or back thats why ive gone this way. any info would be helpful i asked the guy at my local truck shop and he said ill find out when i get pulled over. funny but not helpful !!
It´s not my place to speculate on what the letter of the law is down under, but it sounds like you´re doing it right. Some machines have holes on the blade where you can thread the chain through. If the cops in Australia are like the cops in any other part of the world, they know less about securing your load than you do. Most places don´t want to make regulations telling you how to do it (in case you do it their way and it causes an accident), they prefer to point out how you´re NOT supposed to do it. Sorry if that´s not more help than the guy at the truck stop.
Here it is all 4 corners independ of each other plus 1 for the bucket. That is for your size machine.
i do have holes through the blade but the cain wont go through its to thick. can i attach the chain hooks to the hole then run chain over one side and the do the same on the other side and then take the slack up with the dog ???? hope i didnt confuse
yes but rather than going strait down chain to the oposit side of the trailer ie left side of blade to right side of trailer.
If you have the operators manual, look in there. I have a sticker on my Cat 305C CR on the front of the machine that shows how to chain it down. It does not meet US requirements however since it says to chain to the blade and not to the frame.
so are you saying in the US it is illegal to chain down using blade ?
In my state you have so chain all 4 corners of the machine and any attachments Ie blade and boom. In Iowa it is leagal to use turnbuckle binders on the tracks so we chain on the pads with 4 binders then chain the blade and the boom.
This is not an approved method. It provides better side to side stability in terms of sliding, but will not stop the machine from rolling. With the chains reaching all the way across the trailer, they provide little downward tension. With that said, there´s not much risk of the machine rolling and I see guys transporting mini´s without chains or straps all the time. But, if you´re going to go through the trouble, might as well do it 100%.
Yep. You have to have 4 chains to the frame, plus all implements fastened to the deck. DOT told me since there are no strength requirements when chaining down the implements you could use a rubber band!
If there´s an insurance claim, they adjuster is going to check the load rating on the fastener when they go through their ritual of avoiding paying on the claim.
You can do that but as the law stands here, each corner must be individually tensioned. I do the same thing: one chain and two binders. It's two binders so that if one fails, whole end doesn't come loose.
Hello rami can I ask you something do you know how >>> is in using and in its function, because I am buying it.
Gotta love the spammers that try to get in on a conversation with a completely wrong type of strap!! Andrew
What the cop said is there us no requirement on the amount of load the implement chain and binder has to hold. There is on the chain/binders to the frame however. I do chain it down per the manufactures written instructions printed on the machine. I am sure the engineers at Cat know more than some lobbyist who influences this legislation. Let them take the liability!
Just spent two long days in a mandatory DOT class at work so will give this a shot. Not sure about interstate rules but in intrastate Minnesota, DOT says that the fastener must equal the load that could be put on it from the object being ferried pertinent to all directions. In other words if you have a 100,000 lb load that could slide forward your rear chains and binders must be rated for 100,000 lbs. Gravity has no bearing. But then it's not that simple in the interpretation. They interpret that the load could slide at an angle so each of the four corner fasteners must hold the whole 100,000 lbs. That is why you will see double chains on the corners of larger machines. All attachments must be secured as well. Articulated machines must have a steering safety lock bar in the locked position or have a secure system of keeping it from turning on the center pins if a chain should fail. Hope this helps.