Hauling Palletize Rocks

Oh God those are a pain.



Pick yourself up a roll of snow fence. Especially if you haul this or bricks often. It's great for keeping a handle on pieces that may fall out. But your strapping job looked good and with them being wrapped I dont think youd have much need for the snow fence.

 

If its a schofield/SCOC load ill be droppin right behind you. Small world. I drop in mebane all the time too.

 

In a van...

 

I worked at one of the largest rock yards in the county for a long time. Almost zero of our loads came in on vans. We only used vans when we couldn’t find flats cheep enough.

 

I used to haul a lot of stone, exclusively in fact. Two straps on the front row and single the rest of it’s belly loaded. Probably no edge protector or maybe rubber ones but definitely not those plastic v boards. It was my experience that using plastic v boards on anything but perfectly square loads just broke them. There are no sharp edges on that load.

 

Op do you have v-boards?
You need to spread the pressure out along the side and top of the chicken wire bins.

 

I would use chains just for that reason. But, chains suck because they are either tight, or loose. not much in-between. At least with "river stone" you could probably get away with it as opposed to flagstone where chains might concentrate the pressure too much in one spot and break the stone. the chicken wire become a weak "v-board".

Straps are good if you have enough padding to protect them from chicken wire. old straps cut up into small sections work great for padding and take up less space than typical edge protectors.

 

This right here. Any time you break a strap cut it down to 12 and 24 inch pieces to use as edge protectors.