How does one tarp this?

Right, i thought this was gonna be some crazy weird load..

 

LOL Just catching the full figured comment.

Yeah,.. I'm a big country boy myself. Dont miss too many meals if I can help it. So yeah,. I dont see my fat butt with size 12 boots walking up there with out damaging those sheets. Not going to happen.

I've done those from Firestone a few times and they dont require you to tarp them at all. I personally would not be booking a load of those if they required tarping,.. thats just asking for trouble from someone like me,.. ladder or no ladder.

Hurst

 

The places I've been to that require tarping also require you to use their fall restraint system. I do my fair bit of those insulation loads at both firestone and corning.

 

LOL yeah,.. I was at a rack place that wanted me to put that restraint system on,.. I managed to get my legs in it,.. but it wasnt going over my shoulders or around my waist. And I told them flat out that I was climbing up on top of that thing. I said look at me,.. I make a better Gorilla than Monkey,..monkeys climb trees,.. Gorillas are smart,. they lay in the grass.

So we compromised. I agreed to go to a truck wash and have it cleaned if I hit any weather before delivery. Never got tarped.

Hurst

 

Now HERE'S a fella that is good at throwing a rag over a load. Looks like a Christmas present the way he wraps them...good job
I envy you, lol. Tarps and me have never gotten along, EVER. I always seemed to have gotten the loads that are abnormally shaped, highs and lows, valleys and peaks...never the right tarp for the job, etc.

I've hauled my fair share of Dow blue insulation board and that was the easiest work I've done with a smoke tarp only. The tarp is fitted for the 2 front units, and the forklift puts them on the ground for you to fit the tarp on the front two units and then loads them. All I did was tie the ropes off and that was the end. They provided those thick cardboard corner protectors about 2 feet long, and Dow REQUIRED you to put a twist in each strap to prevent the wind slap and the deterioration of the plastic wrap around the units during travel.

I'd cross 2 straps over the back two units and even one more for good luck straight across them for good looks...and away we go into the wild blue yonder without any issues. I miss those 6,000 lb loads, lol.

 

EXACTLY

 

I dont see why so many out here rely on the shipper to provide them with cardboard edge protectors? These are $60 for a 20 pack. ....

 

I think its because many guys dont want to have to deal with it, and think by telling shippers that these things need to be provided they will get out of having to do the work....or they just dont want to carry something that takes up space that they only use once and a while

 

I think carrying the right equipment for theload is part of the job.. I carry pipe stakes that I use maybe a handful of times a year. Should I expect the shipper to provide me with them?

If you wanna haul something you should have what's needed.

The amount of guys I see out here that will use a combination of Metal, plastic, and cardboard edge protectors to secure a simple load of say insulation is ridiculous.

It's not like edge protectors are really that expensive.

 

We carried metal angles for Sheetrock so I used the cardboard ones provided to me when I hauled foam or if I loaded t&g OSB out of Slave Lake. Easier and faster to use the cardboard ones for me because it meant not getting my metal ones out.