[Rogue Trader]

i wish i had a swede lifting my tackle

[AuRavelling79]

My 650L (flat) is secured thus:-

It sits in a frame the main part of which is 90 mm angle along the back edge of the tank. It is secured through the floor with 14 separate 16 mm high tensile bolts into more angle placed across and underneath the longitudinal box sections of the van.

The tank is strapped underneath the 90 mm angle (but inside the van so kept dry) with 4 winds of 5 tonne ratchet strap through each of the 2 baffles of the tank.

The tank is also against the manufacturers bulkhead which has as standard a box section strengthener across it inside the cab section.

It'll have to do because I subscribe to the cozy notion that the van will rip apart before the tank becomes an issue.

I also think there is a huge fuss about tank fixings out of all proportion to the number of injuries ever recorded.

I mean - compare the risk of injury compared with ladder and step ladder usage.

[Mike #1]

Gold how have you put your straps through the baffles . thanks mike

[AuRavelling79]

Gold how have you put your straps through the baffles . thanks mike

Wound them round the tank (through the baffles) and under the 90mm angle four times and then ratcheted them up.

[Mike #1]

Thanks gold might do that with my flat tank at the moment i have just got tank straps over tank from left to right corners in the back of my pickup.

And at the sides and back of tank i have placed some good quality lengths of wood to help prevent sideways movement and backwards and forwards movement of tank in load area .

I am getting some rubber matting this week to place under tank as well . Mike

[scud]

  As I am of Italian decendancy I refuse to bet against myself and think I may crash, so my straps will do

  my tank is well strapped in and hasn't moved for 4 years, if I was to have an impact bad enough for it to come forward and crush me, chances are I really wouldn't be in a good state without the whack from the tank, so it may well do me a favour and give me the final push.