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You don't necessarily have to have them crossed (although there's nothing wrong with crossing chains). You just need to make sure the chains are pulling opposite directions side to side and front to back. In other words, the chains need to be pulling against one another. I always like to cross...

I've towed several (more than I care to count) and my odds are about 25% that the towed truck will do something crazy. Not that I've wrecked or anything but some trucks just don't want to tow well. Granted, most of the trucks I've towed were parts trucks so that could have something to do with...

One problem I've had chaining equipment on a trailer is the slotted chain holes some trailers and rollbacks have. We've got a trailer that has the slotted chain holes for attaching the chain to the trailer. I have broken two chains using these slots. The first one I thought it was just a bad...

It's pretty secure. Every once in a while you'll get a machine with a badly worn undercarriage and will cause you problems though.

That's common practice to chain down tracked equipment. Not 100% sure if it's legal but everybody does it (including me).

As far as I know the lever type is still legal. Our insurance company doesn't like them though. We were urged by them to swap over to the screw type but it was just a suggestion. We have some screw type but still use the lever type mostly.

I'm in the rigging business also and this info is wrong about why cranes use a spreader beam. As you can see in the pic of the post, without a spreader beam the rigging would damage the load because the angles will cause the rigging to pull into the load. This is the sole purpose of a spreader...