Nursery Tarps

looking for flatbed carriers with Nursey tarps running between Lexington, KY to McMinnville, TN.. let me know

 

arivers can you send me some info about this

 

I have quite a few Nurserys that i help with their shipping but finding a need for Flatbed with Nursery tarps and can't find any flat bed carriers that have them.

 

I live in mcminnville & haul nursery out daily.

 

You can go to the nursery supply store. The mesh cloth is actually called shade cloth. The stuff is strong enough to just take a small rock put it on the underside making a pouch, the wrap some 1/2 inch wide nylon strapping around your rock or pouch and tie. Then tie your other end to your pipe spools on the trailer. If you wanna get really fancy you can buy them with D rings but that is at least double the price of just the shade cloth. For a 48 ft trailer you wanna get one 60 feet long to go over the trees. (If hauling palms or other large trees). I expect palms will be good this year coming out of Florida because of all the ones that died because of the cold. I can normally get $2 - $2.50 per mile coming out of Florida. These tarps are bulky and don't fold up nice and tight like a steel or lumber tarp. I generally don't carry it on the truck unless I am going down into the lower central part of Florida.

 

Where to buy a nursery tarp

 

I have hauled one nursery load. The shipper did all the work securing and tarping the load, except I threw a strap every three rows of trees. They supplied the tarp and the receiver rolled and stowed it to ship back. I question whether a flatbedder needs to supply their own tarp.

 

I have nursery/sod tarps. I'm not sure where we got them. I have hauled loads of trees where the shipper supplied tarps and sent a sack with for the receiver to send the tarps back.

 

I will add that when securing the load and the tarp the crew used string. Be prepared to bungie the tarp as necessary to keep it from flapping. The string wasn't very strong.

 

Doing tree loads. I bought a roll of baler twine. The polyester type. Throw extra tie downs over top of entire load
. Strap ever other row of trees..