Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Do you do the sides first, or the ends?
I've always done sides first, then ends.

 

Nothing more than a 3/4" will fit through the holes in the plates.

Reading it again I think you were talking about the bunk. The bunk on the truck does not have a place for a clevis. the chain wraps around a pipe. You can add more chains and we do on heavier beams but you can only add so many before you run into issues trying to tighten the chain.

 

Corners first, alternate them.left front right rear right front left rear. Make sure she's tight. Flap the front, sew down the side, flap the back, strap down the excess.

 

Yeah...he only has room for 3/4 inch in the plates. Probably need an inch and a quarter for 10 ton shackles. It would have to be 10ton to double up half inch chain.

 

Ok, thank you.

But what are you doing at a corner? Pull one bungee down to make the top tight? Do you roll up the sides before tightening the corners?

HOW do you flap the front or back?

I was shown once with lumber tarps on an 8' high load. With end flaps. I'm lost on small stuff

 

Think of it like gift wrapping a Christmas present. Dont be like uncle Moe with the sloppy wrapping. Nice and smooth on all sides. With nice folds and creases. Any access,.. front or rear can be strapped to the deck if in a hurry. In hot weather like we have now,.. I've been known to ball up the access and throw 3 straps over it LOL. 90% of how it will look when finished comes from the initial lay out of the tarp.

On odd shaped items,. all you can do it wing it.

Here is an example from one of mine. And I am by no means an expert,.. I hate tarping.

This:




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Is what is under this tarp job.



Not the greatest tarp job to use as an example. Only to show,.. sometimes you have to work with what you have. That is a single 26ft long 8 ft drop with flap lumber tarp,.. 18gauge BTW. Heavy beast,.. used 6 cargo blankets and assorted edge protectors and bungee underneath.

EDIT:
Both of these are 8ft drop lumber tarps on smaller loads. My smaller steel tarp had some tears and could not be used at the time of these. Posting these because they show the corners you seem to be concerned about. Under and over,.. roll up the excess.






Hurst

 

Well, i was trying to find a video onYouTube, but the only ones I saw they were using lumber tarps. To flap the front, you makeit the front of a regular tarp look like the flap on a lumber tarp.

 

That makes sense. So if it's a four foot drop, set the tarp front to have 4' of drop like a lumber. Ok, I'll try that in the morn.

Thanks for the patience/time.

 

You tuck the excess under the front, and pull the front tight against the front corners. It will look just like the flap of the lumber tarp. Then use your bungees to sew up the flaps.

Like n that last pic of Hurst's