OldTimer Tarp Story

Not much u can do about something like that. Tell him that he should have come out there and helped you tarp it then. 1 man can only do so much.

 

worst tarp experience i had was a winter or two ago when i picked up a load of baled hay in kansas. it was stored out in an open shed at 7 Fahrenheit, and went on the truck with no hassles. i delivered someplace in the east, also around 7 F, and then went to philadelphia to load steel pipe. loaded those inside the building with the heaters on, and while i was under my tarps straightening them out i smelled something familiar. couldn't figure it out, but the tarps were damp underneath and i smelled just the same when i was done. unloaded the steel someplace else, rolled my smelly tarps up and wondered what that wet stuff was that we both smelled like. no place to take a shower.

a day or so later i finally recognized the smell: mouse piss. the hay bales were all covered in frozen mouse piss crystals, and so were the undersides of my tarps. i couldn't smell any of it until it thawed in the heated warehouse, and by that time my clothes and me were all covered with the stuff, except that it wasn't frozen anymore.

still no place to take a shower, so i used every baby wipe i had and made sure to lose those tarps on a relay right away.

 

Im never taking a load of hay... lol I do have a good reason to refuse, Im highly allergic to hay.