Post your flatbed load pictures here

Rob

I saw some nice new steel tarps at the office w/ your name on them. Looks nice!

 

That's what I hear

 

A few more from the last few months.

First: Second solo pickup. A container filled with 20,000 pounds of glass. Dropped that in the Port of Houston
Second: Not sure what kind of coils those are. Mightve been steel, but its been awhile.
Third: Two eye to the sky coils. One weighs 23,000+ n the other weighs 24,000+. took those to Budwiser in Colorado right before Thanksgiving.
Fourth: The hydraulic controls and bucket off a Cat. Nice light load I dropped in Florida. It was on its way out of the country.
Fifth: I hate irregular loads. A bunch of conduit. Sorry for the crappy quality.
Sixth: Same load tarped. Again, I hate irregular loads.

 

I guess it's time I join in. I work on a ranch that until this year with the drought had over 400 head of mama cows and on average makes over 2000 round bales of hay a year. With the drought came desperate times. So we sold 100 head of older cows and bought a truck and trailer to haul hay in.

First pic is some hay I found around in south Texas. The guy loading me doesn't have clue what he is doing and will not let me run the tractor. So it takes him around 2.5-3 hours to load what should only be 45 min max.

Second is some peanut hay that wasn't baled right and was loose. To make matters worse all they had to load me with was an Ag crane (basically in my mind a pos for handling hay). The guy loading it tore up 10 bales before he got me loaded.

I'll have to get a pic of a nice straight load sometime. I'm usually too excited that they are loaded right and look good to snap a pic.

 

Looks like you were delivering to the NAIT LRT expansion here in Etown...

 

I have to give all you hay haulers credit, I'd be a nervous wreck with those loads worrying about them falling off (I've seen 7 fall of so far since September) and there is no way I'd do it.

 

Oh, it's not bad. Those big round bales like to stay right where they are. The biggest concern with them is how many bullhaulers are going to come around the corner at mach 5 and bounce off them back into their own lane.

On that coated pipe out of Houston, I've noticed they're loading them different now. They're laying the bottom row all the way across so it's against the stakes on both sides like they're supposed to instead of stacking it in the center. Must have had a lot of complaints.

 

I couldn't stand it because I NEVER let my straps have a twist in them if I can help it, I hate when my straps aren't uniform and laying nice and flat.

 

I don't like twists in my straps either. Drives me nuts.

 

I'll twist mine if I'm hauling something like an empty container. They'll just beat themselves to death if you don't. I leave them straight on hay because a little buzzing against soft hay won't hurt them. That and I want to know when they work loose on a soft load so I can crank them down again.