Question on Lumber load Securement

Yes but explaining the ants running back and forth to that bundle after it is stored outside the next time you are there can get "inventive".

 

I’ve had paper wrapped lumber bundles slide around my deck even with gut straps. Better to just put some extra securement on it.

 

Use edge protectors so the straps don't bind up on the edge pieces?

 

That paper wrapped stuff to s nasty, especially beams.

 

Who has hauled veneer? Lot of it here in NW Oregon. I always see it stacked 3 bundles high with only straps over the top, and no strap over the second bundle. I assume the second bundle is not taller than 6', so it's legal, correct? But it looks sketchy. However, I've never seen any of those loads that have shifted, so I guess it's fine.

 

That’s not how the law works. If there are 3 or more bundles a gut strap is required and that gut strap has to be over a bundle Less then 6’ off the deck.

 

Nobody guy straps veneer out west. It’s loaded in stacks of three, and all the straps go over the top.

Same with 54” wide Sheetrock. 4 high and strap over the top.

 

LVL now that's some slippery wood. In all the years I never had a load of lumber shift. I had a good teacher. Doug Leavitts.

 

When in doubt, throw more straps.
2 in the middle, 2 on top. Same thing next 10 feet.
The labor of asking in a forum is more than the effort of adding a few straps

 

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