Why we still make these dangerous steel coils!!

If steel coils are so dangerous to transport, then we do we keep making them?

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[analogludite]

I hauled coils for 10 years, and I can tell you the reason that coil let go and hit the truck cab is because it was improperly secured. They should be double or triple chained in a coil rack. There is considerable training involved in hauling steel. You can't just throw a chain over it and go.

[anthonyher]

As my trainer told me:

You can over-secure a load as many times as you want, but you can only under-secure it once

[dainbramage]

Those spools are insanely heavy, it's basically a solid piece of metal, not to mention the dangers of unbinding them and having the spring out, you can get a good demonstration of this of (and don't try this at home) you were to take a 25ft tape measure apart and dropped the coiled tape out without holding it it will practically explode because it unwinds itself so rapidly

[John-]

My brother hauled these for a time. Said one of the most aggravating things was being told he'd have to tarp them only to get the delivery point and seeing all their other coils sitting in the yard rusting.

[purplekey]

"If steel coils are so dangerous to transport, why do we keep making them?" Is such a ChatGPT question

[zackpedersen]

I’ve known these to be called suicide coils, for the reason shown in the video.

I’ve known an owner/op in the industry that hauled a LOT of these. He had bought a flatbed and he personally welded a steel frame on the front of it with angled supports and gusseted t-joints. Then he would have the loaders put the coils on with the first one butted up against that steel frame and each coil butted up on to the next.

Lastly, everything gets chained down and if I remember correctly, he used G80 - 1/2” chains with a minimum of 4 per coil with 6 used on the coils located on the ends. 4” straps were used to secure any loose chain ends, and were used to help keep the coils tight to each other. Something to do with the fact that the coils manage to do a rotational slide sort of thing sometimes, causing a touch of slack. I don’t know, but that’s what he told me when I asked 6 years ago.

He also said that he rather go overkill on the securement than getting run over by his load. Did a lot of heavy haul, and moved more coils per load than some drivers were comfortable with.

[ETHRON]

I seen a picture of a group trying to steal one...rolled it off the dock into a pickup bed...flattened the pickup...😂.

[HeyMaruniko]

another "if knives are so dangerous because its sharp, why we do keep making them?" kind of question.

[IANcel]

I worked at a factory that made wheeled tool boxes, ten foot shelves, etc; all made out of sheet metal. Met a guy missing half his hand and parts of his face. He said one of the rolls “blew up” because it wasn’t rolled right. Didn’t know metal could just BLOW UP from its own pressure.

[fko]

In heavy industry work they say a simple rule of thumb: "Use your head or lose your head."

[jeffwobrak]

I live near Pittsburgh, we had so many of these fall off the flatbeds hauling them over the years that the high school driving instructor would give warnings about driving next to them. We had a horrific accident when a truck carrying 3 rolls lost its brakes coming down a hill. There was a T intersection at the bottom so the driver had no chance, either he was going straight into an occupied building or he could try to make the left turn and know he would flip the truck. He tried to make the left. The truck did flip and took out a few parked cars but the rolls did a lot more damage. The first roll smashed through the cab of truck killing the driver and only stopped when it soft dirt and a concrete wall, the second one buried itself in a building, and the 3rd landed on top of a car that was traveling through the intersection. The woman in the car was was killed and her car was flattened to about 6 inches.
This was back in the late 70s and I still can't drive near a truck carrying coils without thinking of it. I never drive next to one unless I can pass it as fast as possible. If you get behind a truck carrying coils, pipes, logs, or anything strapped down, look at the straps, if they are loose, call a cop. After working around a lot of different shippers I've found that a lot, not all, of them don't secure their loads properly and they never learn until they are hit with a big fine.

[Aaron-fliv]

Absolutely destroyed that diesel cab. Crazy.

[skunkjobb]

Hot and cold rolling has nothing to do with how it's spun into a coil. Even flat sheets are either hot or cold rolled, it's a process of making sheets regardless of the form of delivery.

[hobbyhermit]

Cold rolled and hot rolled steel does not refer to the way it is rolled into a coil. It refers to the way that the steel is processed. Either can be made into sheets, rods, bars, and other shapes that aren't necessarily coiled for transport. T posts, for instance, are rolled from larger pieces of steel.

[ScizorHands]

Worked in a stamping factory for 5 years as tool and die, if we didnt have stamping, we wouldnt have the majority of products you see today. All the non moving metal components of a vehicle are stamped, and still even some of those are stamped, fuel tanks, air compressor tanks, chaor parts, your AC unit is housed in a stamped box. Any bracket you pick up is guaranteed a stamped part.

[wellfudgethis]

Coils are safe to transport IF you strap them correctly, whenever hauling thlse death traps overkill is the norm, use all your chains ( I have used 9 when it required 6 to haul 46, 000 lbs coil) then throw a couple of straps, cross them around the front of the coil and take it easy, it is a heavy single item being moved so plenty of caution is required.

[joelbellJB]

It’s only dangerous if incompetent people are around them.
It’s never the object, it’s always the people.

[North_Of_Nowhere]

I work in Shotton steelworks in the UK and we make cold rolled coils, we have very strict strapping procedures that have to be carried out before we let a trailer head out, some of the videos you see including the first one is shocking how poorly some countries secure their loads, a few years ago we had a trailer tip over onto it's side as a driver went too fast around a corner, every coil was still firmly strapped to the trailer despite being on it's side, it's really not hard to put a few extra straps on these coils yet it will probably save your life or other members of the public in the event of an accident

[greensun]

If secured right, it's not dangerous to transport.

[placebomandingo]

"Think of it like 3D printing filament" made me feel 100 years old..