Equipment prices

Deoends where ur at . Best price is at the tarp shops ,check at trailer dealers

 

From the guy you park next to, wait till he goes to sleep!

 

2 in the back of the head is a pretty healthy price for some securement!

 

What @Ruthless said . id say paying for equipment with your life is a VERY high price to pay.

 

I always try to buy my tarps used. A good 2 hours with some patch and cement gets most of them right, and replacing tattered grommet rows with a row of D-rings is cheap. Worst case I buy a tarp that's half garbage, get it cut in half and box out the good side for a machine tarp that costs around $120 all in, and the bad half makes decent softeners.

Same thing for chains and binders. A half hour in an electrolysis tank, or a night in a bucket of diesel frees up most "junk" binders, and haven't found a gnarly thread yet I can't get right with a dremel and some needle files. Bought a chain with a cracked link? Boom, just got two or more short chains.

Estate auctions and the odd retiring driver on the CB or craigslist is a great place to get started. I'm sitting on close to 3 sets of equipment now paying on average $50 a tarp, and $15 for a chain or binder. Sure, they're ugly as sin and next to nothing matches, but it all works.

 

This is where I shop, will make tarps the way you want.
http://www.everythingforyourflatbed.com/

 

One thing I've heard of doing, is putting old chains into a portable concrete mixer filled with beach sand. Let it run WAY out back, because it's very loud. But, I've heard it shines chains up real nice....

 

I've heard the same, but diesel in a spray bottle makes a pile of chains glisten, too. Can't say the same for anything else they touch that week.

 

@old iron has a great way of shining up chains.