Mercer

Your welcome! I have never had a special tarp for coils. I have hauled a lot of them. I just use a steel tarp. If you haul a lot of pipe a small smoke tarp is nice so you don't have to drag out a bigger tarp tho. You should be OK as long as you can cover 8 foot high plus the length of your trailer. Lumber tarps are heavy about 150 lbs and the avg steel tarp is about 75 lbs.

Good idea to have pipe stakes for TX. There is a lot of pipe loads that require extra timbers and stakes. A lot of that stuff you can add as you go. V-boards also come in handy. Last set I made I used 2x4's, but that is a lot of weight compared to 1x4's

 

Thanks, that was a pain in the butt load to tarp. Too soft to get on top of it. Really should have went in a box except for a piece of machinery in the back. The tarps was more less to help secure and keep it from blowing all over the highway.

 

See if you can find some furniture pads... Or possibly go buy some scrap carpet in Dalton... Either one of those will defiantly protect your tarps.

Try to get your tarps from a 3rd. party. I have the Mercer tarps & am not impressed by them. The steel tarps seem to be OK... I didn't buy the lumber tarps, I bought 3 machinery tarps. And like notarps said, if you have a 8' load 48' long, you will need at least 5 machinery tarps to get the job done.

I'm looking elsewhere for tarps. As soon as I get a maintenance issue straight, I'm buying some real tarps.

 

yea REDD is right might check ith a moving place and see if they have dirty pads they might sell cheep........not filthy just unacceptable for use for their clients......helps save the tarps and we always use them on coils.....and when there are sharp edges...the Monkey is right too.......

 

Well; we know the monkey is right... if redd agrees with me then he is right too....

 

rotfl....Poor REDD is in Fargo......but there is really bad stuff headed Pony's way.......I don't care is her handle IS Snowflake she don't do ICE! and she don't drive the pony in the snow either!

 

Not no more I ain't!! I couldn't handle staying in Fargo another night... So I did a MJ trick & bounced out of there last night to get me closer to Minneapolis.... And the first load I was offered today was in Fargo.... Whoops!

 

bummer....I'm headed home doibng the happy dance all over the road.....my dog is sick I need to get her home and fix her.....

 

I used to keep 4 6ft by 10ft carpet for machinary and glass and a big bag of disposable diapers for glass racks.Your old leather gloves and duct tape works pretty good for corner protectors in a pinch.I might see you all down there soon as I have been talking to a recruiter.I am tired of seeing my stepdeck just sitting and figure I had probably better put it back to work before it rots.

 

Sorry I am not able to pm you pony but dont have enough posts.I was told my step wont work as I only have 37 ft. on bottom.I wouldnt mind replacing it with newer flat but know the lean months are coming up and may wait till spring to do anything.They also want twic and hazmat which I let expire.Do you haul that many containers and hazmat? thanks krash