[Shop-talk] Enclosed car trailer

[David Hillman]

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?

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  David Hillman