Boxes on trailer for chains

Ive had boxes on the trailer before with the Ravens and with the fuehaufs. You are trading stooping over to pull the canvas and securement etc. It so happens being stooped over is a stress position against your body. It's better to climb up to your headache rack, you can then swing the stuff to your deck rather than lift it up above the deck height. If mr chain escapes from the box chances are one of your duals are going to eat it and it will not be good.

Considering the potential of lumping and lost time with all other kinds of trucking, throwing chain or climbing is the least of the problems.

 

This is how I store my chains in a side box.

 

Do you need the equipment for more than one trailer? If you organize it like MJ did you could put one box on each side and have plentry of room. I have an enclosed headache rack for stuff I only need once in a while. I use my step boxes to hold the chains I use the most.

 

This is how I have my chains. I have 2 boxes on the tractor and no headache rack.

 

The dividers in the bottom of the box are a good idea.

 

I like them. I need to have a plate welded across the front at some point to keep the links from jamming the door.

I also wish they were taller. The are just barely high enough to keep a single 20ft 1/2" or 2 20ft 3/8" chains contained in one section.

 

I always wondered how does a chain get a knot in it if I keep the hook ends together?

I may just steal your divider idea, Razororange.
Looks like a professional display; good job.

X1 HEAVY makes several good points above, and there have been ergonomics studies supporting his assertions about dropping the chains/binders down vs. lifting them.
I'd stick with the system you have - and add a ladder? I'm 63 and jumping up and down from the deck several times is getting to be too much, so I go to the cab steps and swing on the deck from there.

Then theres that - the Mr. Chain escape route thru your duallys and around the axle.

 

I have boxes on both sides; and they look nothing like MJ1657 or Razororange. They're a mess.

I am thinking of adding another two further back. For the overflow.
My problem is that I end up with an entire other set of tools in the truck,
in addition to the tools stashed under the passenger bench seat.
(I gave up trying to return them to the garage and the half-empty 7 foot Snap On box,)
I keep the delicate, or specialty type of tools in cab under seat, and fastener stuff in the boxes.
Then theres the torches, the 20 ton air bottle jack, 2 tire bars, all the pry bars, 1 ton come-alongs, etc.
I have a box labeled "BASHING TOOLS" for the delicate work. Sledgehammers, etc. Watch repair.
Heck, I could do roadside repair with all the crap I tote around.

 

They only problem with your "Dropping the chain vs lifting them" assertion is that you have to eventually lift the chain back up to put it in the headache rack. I would rather stand on the ground and grab a chain out of a box than stand on the deck of my truck and lift 12 chains up to put them away every time I unload.