Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Looks very nice.

 

Thanks something I have found to help is to get those bottom drings and pull them all the same direc tion, right where the tiers go down. Usually I pull those rings forward at the front and backwards in the back . That way the excess tarp will be on the top now and you can yank those upper drings downward and it keeps it all nice and tight.and keeps the wind out of it.

basically ur trying to keep the lower row of drings running parallel to the rub rail the best u can.. makesit easier to pin down the excess tarp and minimize flapping and everything will stay square.
This is just the way I've found works best for me. Maybe someone else had better ideas. Hopefully that makes sense

 

You're not seeing the right kind of doctor if that's the prognosis. Did you get your distemper, at least?

Seriously though, hope you're doing better.

 

I'm guessing that's a 53' trailer that you need those 5 tarps for, right?

 

Yes. The tarps are: (3) 20x26
(2) 20x12
So it's the only way I can cover a load that's 8x8x53. Unless someone has a different idea.

I didn't invent this practice lol

 

Don't knock it. I'd have loved to have had that setup, because I never knew what I'd get, and many is the time I wished I had that kind of setup, especially when doing odd shaped stuff, pulled a step and had a larger than normal piece, etc. It's no fun having to try to use two lumber tarps to deal with an oversize.

I watched the video, that said you guys get 3 tarps 20'x26', and smoke tarps, but I thought they said they were 10 foot, so probably the 12 footers you mention. Figured 3 sideways @ 20' and two end tarps, it had to be a 53', otherwise one of those 3 tarps would have been overlapped by a bit.

 

I see so many pictures on here which are of tarped loads, this is something that has all but disappeared on this side of the Atlantic and I wonder what is the good reason for it. Over here, anything that isn't an abnormal load, a dry or fridge box van, is moved on tautliners such as this one. BTW most have doors at the back too, not sure if this one does, maybe he is confined to special contracts that are never dock loaded. Many also have rooves which can be opened too for craned loads. The curtains aren't for load retention btw, they must by law be strapped inside.

In the UK, way back before straps, we took a pride, like you do, in our roping and sheeting (tarping) skills, but then tautliners of various types appeared on the scene and it would be a very rare sight these days.

Does anyone have an idea on this and do any of you lust after a tautliner rather than battling a flapping sheet in the wind?

 

We got 5 tarps and none of them were 10x10. I'm thinking that's an older video.

 

Finally gave it a proper wash after six weeks.