Benthosboy
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Hello all.
Once again, I appeal to the collective for help.
I recently started a new driving job based in North yorkshire, and one of our regular loads is railway lines. They can run up to 60 feet in length and we carry them on extending 45 feet trailers. The normal method is to extend the trailer to 55 feet and have the rest overhanging the rear. ( it's easier to manouever than a fully extended trailer). I'm always keen to make any overhang as visible as possible so I've been trying to figure out a rig-up to fasten my marker boards and flashing beacons to. Does anyone know of a source of heavy-duty"c" clamps of the type that has a square headed bolt, as opposed to a tommy bar style "g" clamp? I reckon I can fab some brackets onto them and clamp them on the end of the rail on the thin web below where the train wheel runs. (Apolgies for not knowing the correct termonology for railway lines
) I've found some American ones on fleabay by Altman, but £30 postage 
puts me off.
Thanks in advance, as always.
Martyn.
Once again, I appeal to the collective for help.
I recently started a new driving job based in North yorkshire, and one of our regular loads is railway lines. They can run up to 60 feet in length and we carry them on extending 45 feet trailers. The normal method is to extend the trailer to 55 feet and have the rest overhanging the rear. ( it's easier to manouever than a fully extended trailer). I'm always keen to make any overhang as visible as possible so I've been trying to figure out a rig-up to fasten my marker boards and flashing beacons to. Does anyone know of a source of heavy-duty"c" clamps of the type that has a square headed bolt, as opposed to a tommy bar style "g" clamp? I reckon I can fab some brackets onto them and clamp them on the end of the rail on the thin web below where the train wheel runs. (Apolgies for not knowing the correct termonology for railway lines
) I've found some American ones on fleabay by Altman, but £30 postage puts me off. Thanks in advance, as always.
Martyn.
. You will no doubt know the rules better than me for over hangs but is 5ft allowed on a wagon? What about 400A welding screw clamps. eBay 190858167491 and go onto the web
