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Get it out of a van? Oh....

Similar situation.
We flat bedded and tarped bale cotton. Ace thinks, I'll use a van. no tarp, no chains. After a few loading and unloading, no sides attached to the trailer floor. Clamps push out too. Ummm. Back to flatbeds. Then the industry went from the 3, flat cotton, compressed cotton, HiD cotton, to the standard uniform bale. Gin baled it as Flat, Compress pressed it down to about half. HiD was a real squeeze to about 18" each way, for exporting on ship loading. The uniform bale went from gin to compress, only export had to HiD. Then they could get 3 bales wide in a van and still loosen the clamp. I was hauling toilet seats by then and missed the gain of not tarping....
Of interest..
The old gins would bale it up and fasten say 5 steel bands around. Hold OK, as not to compressed. Then the compress took it and repressed it on down smaller/more pressure. They would add say 3 more bands to the existing to contain. Then the HiD (High Density) press mashed it down and created a tremendous bound pressure, so much they would usually add 3 more bands to it. Bale was like squeezed and held but primed to expand..
You loaded HiD like logs, parallel on the trailer floor. Start 4 wide, break with 3 on top, then two ,then 1. Throw a chain across and bind it down.
Have the clamp man come in with matched numbers each pass and JAM then in to the front pile HARD. Etc and etc till last stack, do same as front. There you had a sold nicely shaped load, and only 2 chains used. Tarp and go to New Orleans. Ooops. Whoa.,,,
Loosen the front binder you piped tight to keep still as a head board. Still tight, but nominal. Rear one was not done as tight earlier.
Now tarp and tie it nice and all slick. While you are tying down, you hear this continual pop, skreek, pop and see/feel some movement in the load. This is the compression over coming the band tension a little and scratching the band buckles as it lets it's belt out a little, like a belch.

If you put a cab widths length of cheater pipe on the binders, you will have to hacksaw the handle loose in New Orleans. The bales would have decompressed enough during loading and riding the chains would be fiddle string tight... Which is why we would offer to release the binders in McComb and run it on thru the woods of LA to Slidell and on in with just the hooked chain and tarp holding it on. A few bucks have been made...

 

Long as it don’t bawl when you slice in to it lol….

 

Knock his horns off and wipe his nasty Ol ###

 

Hauling cotton, the thing about tarping was for fire protection enroute from cig butts tossed out rather than rain. Baled cotton is so tightly compressed a moderate rain will only get the bagging wet. I failed to tarp one load from Rayville, LA to B'ham., Al. Summertime, nice sunny day.
Pulled in, and the man said: Pull back out on the street, tarp it. If it has not caught fire by this time tomorrow, we will unload it. Insurance rules.

 

Uh no, gotta have some heat in the meat at least lol….

 

Well— @cke has me booger’d with that worm post— it ain’t much of a stand, but it’s what we got and it’s pretty much tassel’d out and building ears that I can already taste— and then he posted and I ain’t slept a night through since worrying about what manner of disaster is gonna strike next

 

You've watched me?
That's why I carry and use my own Gator valves stem caps, just for that reason. DOT man wasn't going to get away with questioning the integrity of my daily 15 min pre-trip routine. Always check them tires.

 

Two Texans in Steakhouse. Gonna one up each other on rare...
One says: This is exactly right... Had to wait for him to lay down to cut a piece.
Other said: That is nothing; mine is still eating my side of corn, so I still have to wait...

 

Had an ant problem several times. Not sure why. They just hit the corn, nothing else in the garden. Never had ants prior to that couple of times.

 

Lol, yea that be a little to raw for me. We have 3 steakhouses here in my area close by, Logan’s Roadhouse, Texas Roadhouse, and the closest one which is off exit 18 is Longhorn Steakhouse. To me Longhorn has the best all around steak with the NY Strip which I order medium to medium rare. It is my go to steak, but I do love a good T bone as well or Prime Rib…..