How does one tarp this?

Rigid foam insulation.

Always used 4ft or 8ft long edge/corners, straped load, then tarps as needed. One 2 inch over the overlap point in the middle with 1ft corners. Tarp tied down with rope.

Not that long to do the load. Rope does not dig into product.

 

You are an over achiever. I just use 12 inch edge protectors. Half twist on each side. 2 straps per bundle and cross strap the back and the front. I agree with ya about using rope.

The bigger vboards would probably be better, but the 12 inch ones set to be sufficient for me. Never damaged a load of foam with them, or more importantly had a load try to walk away.

 

Have the forklift set your tarps on top, then harness up and roll them out. Any place I’ve loaded foam has had stairs to get up on the load. Looks like that poor guy didn’t have enough tarp to get it done.

 

I've hauled a boatload of Dow blue foam board insulation in my day, and all they every required was a smoke tarp, corner protectors were supplied by Dow Chemical and were 12" long thick cardboard ones, and they insisted on a twist in the straps on both sides to keep the plastic wrapping from getting wind damaged. The twist was enough to hold it from flapping in the breeze. I always cross-strapped the rear units to keep them from walking out of the stack too.

Funny, Dow never required a full tarp on any of the loads we did, and we went pretty far with a lot of them. But they wanted that smoke tarp...that was a big deal to them. Hunter Panel in New York state was the same deal.

 

Same here. I use the metal corners like we use on sheetrock and have always been able to suck the straps pretty tight. I throw two straps on the front stack and one over the rest. We’re usually going far enough it has to be tarped so I don’t have to worry about the back ones walking back on me.

 

The blue or pink foam board is fairly water resistant. The insulation shown in the OP's post will soak up some water.

Firestone is about the only one I get offered to haul for. They wrap there's in plastic. So, no need for tarps at all. Strap it and roll.

 

Both those outfits plus firestone in Bristol: only loads I ever saw full tarp were going to Canada. Idk if that's a shipper thing or a receiver thing, but seemed like they tarped them all no matter what time of year.

 

Hunter Panels in UT and WA has mileage limits. I can’t recall exactly what they are but it’s something like under 450 is no tarp, 450 to 700 is front tarp, and over 700 is full tarp. They used to provide cardboard corners for free but they don’t anymore.

 

Like any other load, carefully and with the right tools. Looks like this driver doesn't have the right tarps for the job.

 

Coolest truck ever

 

1. You do a better job than that.
2. You do a better job than that.

 

Wow that'd be an easy one to tarp could look difficult for someone that's never done it before. Just remember tarping is really only to shelter your load from the weather not to secure your load, that's what chains, ropes and straps are used for.