Bungie strap & Top tarp.

Wrap another bungee around each end, to keep the hooks in place.

 

The bungee that is looped around the bunch can be threaded under the bunch to either be placed on the rub rail for ease of access or carried in hand around trailer. No muss, no fuss, easy to redo and hang securely.

 

Ours are in a storage box. Yes the do settle into a mess some, but they are all in one place and out of sight

 

Throw a strap over the tarp. Bungies in a ball in box. Pull and start shaking them apart.

 

Some brands will do that. I have a few cheap Chinese made ones that take a long time to shrink back. I'll have to look when I get home, but I have some that don't do that. Think they're kinedyne.

 

I put about 30 bungees into the tarp when I roll it up

 

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I've always found that to be a good way to get holes in the front of your tarps.

 

For the flapping tarp I usually just throw a 2" strap and crank it tight.

For bungies I use one of my blankets. Lay the blanket flat on the ground. Lay all my bungies in a flat layer down the center of the blanket with all the hooks running in two rows down each side. Fold the sides of the blanket over the hooks. Start at one end and roll it up like a tarp and then secure the roll with a bungie wrapped around at each end.

I have two tarp boxes on the side of my truck instead of a rack. I always switch have trailers so I can't hang them there. I have to keep the hooks wrapped because I keep all my bungies in the same box as my chains and they get all tangled in the chains if I don't.

 

For steep drops like that I'll take a 50' piece of shock cord, tie it to the rub rail, throw it over the high section, tie it off, move down the slope a foot or two, throw it over, tie it off, move down, throw it over, tie it off, etc until the end of the cord. It's easier on the tarps, and won't flap around as much because of the stretch holding them tight. For extreme slope, feed it through the D-rings on opposite sides of the load where you want the cord to stay.

For storage, I do a little of everything. I keep 10 rolled up in the last roll of the tarp (no holes if you crimp your hooks correctly), bundles of 10 tied together and hung on the crossmembers, a couple running down the rubrail, and the rest in a bucket in the sidebox.

Look around and buy quality tarp straps like JB brand, which last until they dry rot, and keep working in the cold. The worst brand I've ever bought was Platinum, and it seems like all the tarp shops are selling that garbage now. I only got one, or less than one use out of about 20% of them. The few that made it to winter were about 5' long when I put them away.