Laws Of Physics not Apply to Flatbed trucks?

[Bad340fish]

Just wondering if you get some kind of training manual or class that comes with the purchase of a Flatbed for your truck. I saw a guy flying down the highway with a shovel just sitting on the bed of his truck. I see that stuff all the time and it never falls off lol. At work we have people in Flatbeds pull up all the time wanting to pick up some Batteries, 99% of them just set them on the flatbed and drive off. How is it done?? Batteries Slide around in my Battery truck and its designed to carry Batteries lol. Some special "Flatbed Gravity" outthere. Come on Flatbed Guys... tell me the Secret

Clark

 

[QRTRHRS]

Beats me Clark?



I have a 200 gallon poly tank for hauling water out to some of my far pastures. No problem with my wooden wagon bed but one day I put it on my aluminum bed. Understand now that my property is all on a hill. Anyway, I ease up my road either in four wheel low or four wheel low range second gear whatever. When I came to a stop I felt a shudder as about 175 gallons of water slopped forward then backward. With that the tank laid upside down about 50 feet behind me. Guess I should have pulled perpendicular to the slope huh?



I like the ones who load up about 50 sheets of plywood with the tailgate down and zip out the gate. Kind of like shuffling a deck of cards.....

 

[illflem]

Clark what it is is that the object you place in the bed of loses some of it's gravity when you lift it high to clear the bedsides. With a flatbed since there are no sides to lift over the gravity is retained.

 

['956Wheel]

Physics

It would seem that point of repose, inertia, friction, weight, surface area and many other characteristics come into play here.



But then could be just good 'ol dumb luck!



Mike

 

[Bad340fish]

LOL@ Illflem, I think that it

Clark

 

[DarrellB]

Don't Put It There

The guy I used to work for and still haul horses for has a flat bed on his ram and he put his rubbermaid container full of 3' wide rachet straps on the back and drove into town to John Deere and when he came out the straps were gone As he drove back to the farm he spotted the container but no straps. I told him they wouldn't stay there.



I'm not old enough to have a flatbed.

Big D

 

[SOOT]

gravity

before i got my dodge i had a flatbed chev. it was amazing that the same stuff that slid all over the bed of a regular truck would not slide on the flat bed, wierd! but does the same on my dodge. guess we'll never know

 

[JIM S.]

maybe its that flatbeds usualy have the bottom made out of diomond plateing and have a bit better traction... ... or maybe its a subconcious thing... your brain knows you didnt tie it down so you drive more carfully... . shucks I dont know!! Jim

 

[Murle]

Where do you think all the neat stuff you find on the side of the road comes from??? Flat bed trucks.

 

[WOWZY]

Talk about things you find on the side of the road

I was driving in my K-5 Blazer and saw something shiny on the side of the road/ I backed up and saw that someone had lost a Warn lock out hub. I said to myself that someone is gonna get a surprise when they go to lock in their hubs and find that ones missing.



The later that day, I realized that it was my hub on the passenger side that was gone and felt a big sigh of relief.

 

[dodger22]

Not necessarily so Murle!! I carry 4 pieces of 2x8x48" long to level the 5th wheel. When I left a campground in White Rock I picked up the piece I was using and placed it in the bed of the truck between the hitch and wheel housing on it's side. Normally these pieces are stowed in the bed under the hitch lying flat down.



Somewhere in Washington or Oregon this piece went AWOL! It must have flown out of the box between the top of the side rails and the underside of the gooseneck



Never saw it go, never heard it go, just 2 little dents on the underside of the gooseneck. There must obviously be a downdraft coming over the cab to lift it out.





Richard

 

[boonsur]

Just weeks after I got my new '99, I was following a flat bed over some railroad tracks. I don't remember conscientiously seeing it, but suddenly I had locked up the brakes, just missing a hand truck. He never saw it leave. I probably should've scored a free one, but I was too freaked out to think.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Re: Don't Put It There

Originally posted by DarrellB

The guy I used to work for and still haul horses for has a flat bed on his ram and he put his rubbermaid container full of 3' wide rachet straps on the back and drove into town to John Deere and when he came out the straps were gone As he drove back to the farm he spotted the container but no straps. I told him they wouldn't stay there.



I'm not old enough to have a flatbed.

Big D

3' straps $$$$$. Driving one day, I start seeing all these rubber bunggies laying on the interstate. Come up on this flatbed, he still has a bunch hanging on his DOT bumper. Tried to raise him on the CB, beeped at him, etc. but he ignored me. O'well.



Old? Guess I must have reached the point where form follows function

 

[rich m]

..don't forget the cool stuff the electricians drop...

had to dodge (no pun intended, I was in the pre-RAM cheby) a whole bunch of 1" 90* conduit elbows on US 95 just past the "spaghetti bowl" interchange one fine day... now there'd be an interesting bunch of repairs! Imagine the havoc that a bunch of steel boomerangs would do under a vehicle

 

[Doc Tinker]

I know for a fact that a flat bed with sides doesn't hold anything.



Once I took a pair of school bus duallys, with the drums and hubs still on, to have the drums turned. No, I did not lose the duallys! Lucky me!



On the way back to the shop, I turned a corner and the lift gate dropped open, letting loose a five gallon safety can full of gasoline, that was back there. The can shot right at a car and luckily missed it without spilling a drop. The guy in the car probably had to go clean his britches after that one



The gate was one that latched after you closed it while in the highest position, then lowered into a notch that was supposed to have a lock, but didn't. I put a lock on it after that



Doc