Gut Wraps

PVC pipe we would do at 2nd and every layer after for the small stuff under 3" pipe.

Bigger than that, every layer.

 

I guess I must be old school. I use gut wrap (layer wrap for some of you folks) and belly wraps. My current load has 2 gut wraps on it. Guess I will have to get some pics of it put up.

 

Heck I almost forgot. Saw a flatbed hauling some 12 to 15 ft aluminum logs (the big 10 inch rounds) and he had 3 straps going across it but sure could have used a belly wrap as it was coming apart.

 

Is that not what "Gut-Wrapping is?

 

No....


Take two straps. lay them across the deck on opposite sides from each other and hooked to the rails.

put your load on.

Toss your loose ends back over the load to where it's hook is already attached to the trailer. The Loose end should be pulling down also.

Winch it tight on both sides.

You have just gut wrapped your load.

 

Your "Gut Wrap" is new to me, but I do a lot of the Cinch type with straps. Any long Pipe, Rebar, or Poles. Seems every time I get some pipe stakes to help in these type of situations, they get swiped off the trailer or I've got to give up that load to another driver.

 

The only time I have gut wrapped a load was a load of 1" PVC pipe that you couldn't strap down normally. You'd bow that load out so bad it was ridiculous. So we gut wrapped it and down the road we went.

 

Yea I hate that when your pyramid stacking pipe and the ####### pulls on your rails to get the pipe off his forks. I pulled one of them out of his forklift one day after he pulled my rail off and we went rounds. The superintendent of the pipe yard wrote me a check for 2000 to get it fixed said he has to do it alot if I was him I'd be finding some other hands to run the lifts.


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