I'm too short to put the tarp on the flatbed

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    That chick ought to be able to throw that sucker over the trailer. Or at least be a good arm wrestler.
     
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    What possessed you to decide to go flatbed with your height and size? Surely you realized that ahead of time.
     
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    Crank the landing gear up to lower the trailer all the down. I mean technically that's not against the rules, am I right?
     
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    For every difficult situation someone had figured it out a long time before one of us had to deal with it. It's important to learn from other people's mistakes and successes.
     
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    kemosabi49, Feedman, cke and 5 others Thank this.
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    You can do it - it's just technique. Show them a different way.

    Unroll the tarp, and re-roll it as a 6' long sausage, then manipulate it on the trailer as these other blokes have said.

    Or keep it in the roll, turn it over a bent knee, up on your shoulder, and on the deck.

    If it's just to pass their dumb test -

    Then figure better ways to get them up there - like that YT short video - that's a smart idea.
     
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