Adding a watertight explosives drome to our step deck trailer

[Frank S]

A couple weeks ago my driver friend switched from hauling 90,000 oilfield frack pump trailers to hauling the downhole explosives.
To do this we needed either the dry van or the Conestoga we had removed from one of the trailers we sold. or a covered wagon side kit, which we purchased used, added a few sheets of plywood to replace the missing panels The kit more than paid for itself over the past couple weeks but is kind of a pain to open the tarp remove some side panels and bows so the pallets can be loaded All because the detonators could not be allowed to come in contact with the tarp. The blast tubes could have been simply tarped down without the need for the sides or bows.
Since I had a drome box, I had removed from the back of another guy's truck we decided to mount it on the trailer, but make it easily removeable or relocatable.
I cut fork slots in the I beams under the bottom of the box then we strapped and chained it down



These are the blast tubes

And these the detonators they must be kept 2 feet or more away from any other explosive charges Generally he never hauls more than 2 pallets of these, but the pallets can be stacked as long as they do not touch the pallet below a simple separator is all that is required so he can actually get 3 pallets in the drome if needed, Now he can strap his tarp down directly on the pallets of blast tubes which will make them more secure