Tips and Tricks of flatbedding

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Some folks will argue if hung with a new rope.
It would be extremely hard to mess it up short strapping or half strapping, but apparently there are at least a few people that are intelligent enough to do it. lol

 

Strapping is hard.

 

Especially for people that are Lazy.

 

That is what I hear, but i am learning.
I reckon if I were,'t so dadgum lazy, I would just carry the freight on my back, no need to buy a truck that way.

 

I don't know if a guy would call this a tip or not, maybe a trick. lol
A few years ago a friend came up and was going to stay and haul some freight I had a deal on north. He had a T600 he had just bought and brought up a nice enclosed headache rack. Well his truck had the ehaust behind the sleeper and with this rack, was not going to leave him much room at all to overhang.
He was also going to have to deal with frozen straps up north and the easiest way is to have extras here in the shop and swap for dry ones.
The freight I had required it to overhang the front, so I came up with the idea to run his exhaust through the headache rack, and it would be heated. It worked and he had nice dry straps when he got back to reload too, kind of an added bonus.

 

yaay me!! I made it all the way to the end...finally.
so enlighten me if I'm confused, but the 'how to fix straps at the ratchet end' discussion leaves me thinking that there are 2 separate issues being addressed.
1st is whether the material of a strap has enough friction against itself to not become unwound. I believe that it most likely would NOT slip against itself and thus would NOT unwind itself under transport. The amount of friction of the innermost strap against the metal of the ratchet spindle is a different thing however. I doubt there is an official 'mu' factor for that but my instinct says its gotta be less against metal than against more webbing...
2nd is if the strap NOT being securely run thru the slot makes a problem. Since it seems to me that when I re-tighten the straps every time I stop, and the first few times I can get another click, I suspect that there is some of that force applied going to overcome the strap-against-strap friction in tightening the spool... as well as rotate the whole #### spool, thus increasing the overall force of the strap over the load, and increasing the holding force of the strap against itself.

so- my guess is that the webbing won't slip and unwind itself, but the ability to continue tightening the webbing is severely reduced or removed without the tail end being fixed. the difference in crane operations is that the fixed end of the hoisting wire is never asked to tighten or change- it's only purpose is to hold fast.

my armchair physics proposal...no implication of real world experience is meant. I've only been at this 2 months.....not pretending to know anything IRL

 

OK< you can tighten it as much as you possibly can and it will not slip, you can retighten it once the load settles with a 10 foot cheater and never slip it on the metal, when you get to where you are going and take it off, you will still have to pull it out of the one side, if it had of slipped it would be out of the slot.
No need to over think he process.

 

Pretty sure short strapping is illegal, if a DOT looks through the winch and sees 2 straps running through then ‍♂️ Maybe you want get a ticket