Keeping your straps from freezing?

just trying to get richter excited, lol.

 

yep, it did. he probably wont eat the garbage can deal at the barbeque joint with me anymore

 

A bit off topic, but...

How much did you spend on straps, chains, tarps etc. when you first got into flatbed, and roughly how much would that be in today's dollars?

 

Wow, some of the 'ol boys on here probably paid with sheep or oxen. Wonder what that comes out to in today's dollars?

 

to heck with that I want a full size picture of your avatar

 

I can relate, last year cold as hell in Montgomery,Al my trailer lights went out, 315 dollars 3 hours at 105 , they had no ohm meter to find a short or bad ground, they finally found the bad ground after I cut a piece of wire and made a ground jumper from the plug to trailer. then they discovered they had no connectors to connect a ground from the plug to the trailer, I provided them from my electrical kit. then the sumbuck tried to hit me up for an environmental charge along with the bogus labor. what I get for being lazy in the cold, so I can relate, took 2 months to get over that

 

but anyway 2500 for tarps and all the fixings to go with em

 

Hey flightline, to answer your original question. I will leave mine on the trailer just long enough to crank them as tight as I can, that squeezes almost all the water out. Then wind em up and toss in the side box(same one that holds the bunk heater. I keep a cheap towel on the floor in there to soak up any extra moisture that might drip. Not sure if those big houses have a regular bunk heater/ac unit like a normal sleeper so that might not work for you, but just squeezing the water out will keep them from turning into a frozen brick.