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We haul pipe once in awhile. They make a cylinder shaped notch in one side of the dunnage for the pipe to cradle in. They are beefy, like a 3"x6" timber. Maybe not practical to carry around, but you do enough pipe it could come in handy. Flip it on it's side and it's perfectly flat dunnage.

 

True that, but I am well set for hauling pipe with pipe stakes and enough 4x4's to handle three layers, plus 2x4's for extra layers if it's small diameter. The variety of diameters I haul make it impractical to have notches of given diameters. With the pipe stakes and belly wraps pipe loads aren't going anywhere.

My dunnage and pipe stakes are also perfect for "bottom tool" loads: drilling motors, collars, stabilizers, and subs. I need something for setting frack equipment on to distribute the weight, something that I can stow in the perfect slot in my side box. In oil field you have to be a "jack-of-all-loads".

 

Gotcha. Just throwing out ideas. I carry one 2"x10"x24" piece of hardwood for the same type of situation.

 

Amazon sells them. Just search "outrigger pads".

 

Yikes! Spendy little things. About $100-250 EACH, depending on spec. Ships in 1-2 months. I'm going for plywood. It will do the job.

 

You can get cutoff a of lvl from lots of lumber yards cheap, get the thick ones. Used to make boom pads out of them, to make 1 pad: get 2 bout 2' long, the 11 3/8 width, throw some 3.5" decking screws all thru them to get a couple together. Nail/staple a piece of 2" strap on the end to grab n drag them around by.

 

I have done more research. I will buy 2' x 2' squares of oak hardwood flooring from Lowe's or Home Depot. Much cheeper and they will distribute the weight just fine. I have relied on softwood 2' x 2' squares, and used 2x4's to set the valves on, so I know that hardwood plywood will fit the need nicely.

 

13' 10". 2 straps over the tarp, 2 straps under. Weight is almost nothing and I got 7.8 mpg. Would do this load every week if I could.

 

More lifting beams.

Yellow one is for the rollers in a steel mill. There's flip up pins on the bottom of the legs that fit into holes in the rollers.

Taking them to get load tested and then down to Blytheville, AR.

 

Next up, 13'1" wide. Yes guys you have to measure the rebar too, not just the concrete.