My Metal scrap Truck with sides and dumping.

**pcscrapper** · 06-23-2013, 05:43 PM

Think people are not lookin at it closely... where the straps are. There is a slip out panel.. looks unsafe.. but trully isn't... The straps.. keeps the side up and in place.. done 20 plus trips like that.. and the max load on this truck is 28000 most I had in it, was 24850

**Bear** · 06-23-2013, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by pcscrapper

Think people are not lookin at it closely... where the straps are. There is a slip out panel.. looks unsafe.. but trully isn't... The straps.. keeps the side up and in place.. done 20 plus trips like that.. and the max load on this truck is 28000 most I had in it, was 24850

Those are named tie "down" straps, because they tie things "down", Not "up". What you're missing is the rigidity necessary to hold them "up", and one day you'll be going around a corner, or get caught in a pinch, and that load will shift, sideways. How? Why? Because there's insufficient support there to hold them "up", and you'll have cases all over the highway/freeway/side-of-the-road or maybe on somebodies head. A simple beam along the top holding them all together, lending some support coming from each corner, might be sufficient to avert this, but it's your load, you're the one responsible for it, you be the judge ; )