Scrap Carbide Shipped by Truck
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2005 Granart Road, Sugar Grove, IL 60554 630-964-5030
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This box is your pallet from a bird’s eye view.
The gray dot is your pallet’s center of gravity.
If the center ever goes outside the box, your pallet rolls over.
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A tip of the cap to Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, for this explanation.
Palletizing a barrel raises its center of gravity.
Shipping less than full lowers the center of gravity
The four buckets below are arranged symmetrically, each 75% full. The lids are hammered shut.
The buckets have been strapped and shrink wrapped around, (the belt and suspenders theory);
1 dimension.
The buckets have been covered with plywood and strapped across both ways; dimensions 2 and 3.
Shipment preparation check list:
Heavy duty pallet, easily sufficient for the load.
Load centered, balanced and secured.
Containers filled below capacity; weight even.
Each container’s lid tightly secured.
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Steel strapped in all three dimensions:
Around
Back and forth
Across
No pallet heavier than 1200 lbs.
Bill of lading ready for the FedEx driver.
Gross, tare and net clearly marked.
Scrap carbide shipped by truck—how it works:
Day 0: Phone for a price; written confirmation and terms emailed.
Day 1: FedEx truck scheduled for pickup at your convenience; bill of lading and other paperwork emailed or faxed to you.
Day 2 & 3: FedEx picks up and delivers shipment.
Locations west of the Rockies, Canada or Mexico add a day or two. We use FedEx to broker your shipment across the border.
Day 4: Contents weighed and inspected.
Day 6: You receive the check in the mail.
Day 7: Slack day, just in case.
Throughout the process, we update you on status.
A FedEx shipment is loaded and unloaded several times before it gets to its final destination, It goes through 2 to 4 different terminals along the way, fork-lifted on and off different trailers each time.
Gravity 101: View from the Side
Gravity 102: View from the Top
Strapping won’t slip off off the square plywood
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Shipping less than full places less stress on your containers. No steel drum is UN rated to carry 3000 pounds of scrap carbide.
A full 55 gallon drum on a pallet is top heavy.
A smaller force than you think will tip it over. 30 gallon drums are short and squat; we love ‘em.
Low is the way to go.
Gross 1037
Tare 33
Net 1004
