JJ's Place

Yup we gonna paint the mother pink.................hehe...

 

A good tarp will last you for years though. Especially if you are careful around corners or freight, get them good and tight, and make sure no air gets under them. Or as little as possible from the front.
For the corners we used sliced up pieces of old race tires or old straps. Then if you do get a hole get it fixed early.
Also, store in a good dry box whenever possible.

 

Hmmmmm, JJ becoming a skate boarder. Sure hope you've put your foot down Jess and made it plain to JJ, you ain't hauling chains, binders, or tarps for him!!!!!

 

chains aren't bad. it's the tarps that suck. one of these days i'm gonna have a ladder.

nothing wrong with hauling lumber. but with a step deck. you'll want some risers for the bottom portion of trailer for those rebar loads. don't know what they call them. but they basically give you a level surface along the length of the trailer so the rebar rests evenly. and a light bar if you haul oversized rebar. so you'll want a trailer with a electric socket in the back. need the light bar for driving at night. along with flags which the shipper gives for free when asked.

unless you don't plan on hauling rebar along with lumber. LOL.

for belly wrapping our rebar. we hook the chain up to trailer on passenger side. run along the bottom to the driver side. throw it over the top to the passenger side, under the chain and back over the top to the driver side. then hook the other end to trailer. only one binder needed. it pulls the chains on both sides.

we belly wrap with a strap in the front and back first though to squeeze the load together.

 

The reason for 2 is more on heavier metal. But when the load moves a little, which it will in the first hundred miles. It gets it tighter to use a second. This was with the pop binders we used. If you have to loosen the one you have on the load to hook it to a tighter link, many times the load will shift a little when you pop it, then you cannot get it tighter.
If you use a second binder on the other side you can get it tighter without ever taking off the first one.
We hauled allot of steel bars, ingots, and other large steel pieces. Not much small stuff like rebar. So I guess it really depends on what you are hauling. That is one of the fun parts about flatbedding, Is learning how to hold down all the different loads. Something new all the time.

 

Its a team operation so guess I will be doing my fair share I can chain up a truck it can't be much harder then that can it????

 

my understanding from that canadian i talked to was there are 4 classes. you have to take each one before hauling specific loads.

basically it was a 4 step process to get the really good loads. and if i remember right. you had to wait 3 months before each step.

so you'll have to keep us informed as to there process. PLEASE.

this was for oversized loads. you had to be class 4 to get the really wide loads.