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Keep your neck off the chocking block.


Sure the trailer's brakes are supposed to lock on and stay on when you uncouple from your tractor truck. Just don't bet on it!

If your trailer's parked on a slope, it may roll away. Then all kinds of bad things can happen!

That's the reason for chock blocks. Wedge wedge, piece of wood or metal thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other; an application of the inclined plane. It is employed in separating two objects from each other or in separating one part of a solid object from an adjoining part, as in splitting  'era under the trailer wheels and your trailer will stay put.

You need two blocks. On level ground, you set one chock in front of a wheel on one side and the other chock behind a wheel on the opposite side. If your trailer's parked on a slope, you place both chocks in front or back, depending on whether the trailer is pointed uphill or downhill. In either case, the chocks go on opposite sides.

You can also make your own chock blocks out of lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to  or wood scraps. Use another chock block as a pattern for size and make it like this:

Nuts, NSN NSN National Stock Number
NSN Nokia Siemens Networks
NSN National Storytelling Network
NSN NATO Stock Number
NSN New Substances Notification (CEPA)
NSN National Student Number (NZ)
NSN Never Say Never
 5310-00-880-7744

Flat washers, NSN 5310-00-809-3078

Bolts, NSN 5306-00-358-6518

Before you fasten all of the pieces together, make sure the assembled chock will fit in your trailer's stowage STOWAGE, mar. law. The proper arrangement in a ship, of the different articles of which a cargo consists, so that they may not injure each other by friction, or be damaged by the leakage of the ship.
     2.
 bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. . Connect the two chocks at the center notches using chain, NSN 4010-01-065-6955, and two chain hooks (Naut.) a hook, used for dragging cables about the deck.
See under Chain.

See also: Chain Hook
, NSN 4030-00-153-8711.

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NSN                Material         Size
                                 (LxWxH in inches)

2540-01-271-7167   Rubber           7 x 6.5 x 5.38
2540-00-678-3469   Wood             8 x 9.5 x 8
2540-01-459-4266   Rubber           9 x 15 x 6
2540-00-288-2873   Aluminum         9.438 x 8 x 5.75
2540-00-769-5048   Steel            11.25 x 11.5 x 5.5
2540-00-912-1848   Aluminum alloy   12 x 15 x 9.375
1730-00-294-3695   Wood             14 x 6 x 4
2540-01-165-6136   Wood             15.5 x 7.75 x 5.75
2540-01-184-4897   Aluminum alloy   18 x 18 x 1.75
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