Unusual/Antiquated Load Securement

Steel cables work well for logs and crushed cars. I carry rope and rubber rope for tapping jet engines and other odd loads.

 

I use rubber rope or shock cord for virtually all of my tarping. Took me a bit to get the knack for it but now I find it better for almost all loads. If I didn't drop most of my tarped loads at the yard for someone else to deliver I'd switch to regular rope in a heartbeat.

 

I'm going to pick up some shock cord next time I get a chance because The rubber rope is kind of a pain to work with. I wish our trailers had hooks it would make it much quicker. I used to rope almost everything at maverick hauling glass. Looking at some of their drivers going down the road I'm not even sure they teach them how to use the glass tarps now.

 

I wouldn't want to use the rope if we didn't have hooks.

 

Those tarp jobs are a masterpiece of the artform.

 

Thank you sir. They make it easy with purpose made tarps. Those small flaps are triangle shaped. At the end of my tenure with Maverick I was tarping 3-4 loads a night preloading trailers. Now tarping one load every once and a while is pretty easy.

 

member: 9696"]I'm going to pick up some shock cord next time I get a chance because The rubber rope is kind of a pain to work with. I wish our trailers had hooks it would make it much quicker. I used to rope almost everything at maverick hauling glass. Looking at some of their drivers going down the road I'm not even sure they teach them how to use the glass tarps now.
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They won't give a #### until it starts costing them money.

 

If you speak to a old timer in the long a go days they used rope to secure lumber.
I have been told that you could break lumber with a properly tightened rope?
Tarps were made of canvas and weighed like a ton!
Wire rope and u bolts were used on lots of freight.