Tarping Large Coils

I would tell you how I tarp my coils but mine probably look worse than yours.

Try google?

 

See if there a TMC thread @ ask there ,seen a couple of theme load beside me and man there's looked rather neat and tidy.

 

One trick is to load shotgun, if they give you that option.
I just did a 42k coil like that, and the 4' steel just fit over it. I mean, one more half inch and it wouldn't have touched the floor on both sides.
At Maverick, most of our trailers have a groove on each side that you can use to hook a bungee into, with a D-ring or eyelet looped in there as well. It's no fun with a lumber tarp. Just pull everything tight. I also run a few rows bungees across from one side of the trailer to the other, hooked to the rub-rails, to reduce flapping and keep things in. Most of us fold up the excess tarp underneath the back, hook one the top row of D-rings to the trailer. Keep it from flying out with those bungees from rail to rail.
Also, bungees across the front and back of the top parts of the coil reduce flapping.
In short, bungee the crap out of the thing.

 

If you carry 4by4s use one on each end of a shot/gun load coil roll tarp ends around wood till it looks like a V and put a strap over each end. rubber strap any thing that starts to flap when you stop to tighten up chains.

 

I use coil tarps when I'm forced.

It honestly matters on the size of the coil your tarping with the 4foots I use straps and bungees to keep it looking nice

 

Large coil. 2 lumber 2 steel tarps. Neat and tidy tarp job. Got it.

I assume the steel tarps are just a bit short. I would still use them. I would take 1 steel tarp, throw it over the coil, secure the tarp to the deck to the rear of the coil (the side away from the tractor) and gage secure the front corners 1 bungee each corner. Take the other tarp and throw it over, strap the front of the tarp to the deck in front of the coil, and button the tarp down snug all around. Should only take a few minutes longer to tarp and would be much easier to manage than the lumber tarp.

 

What he said.

Maverick used heavy duty canvas tarps as padding to protect the steel tarps. On a coil that the 4 ft tarps wouldn't quite reach, I would pull a canvas tarp first and secure/cover one side to the trailer, the other side would be short of the trailer. Next I would throw the 4ft steel tarp and secure/cover the other side. When done, the 4ft steel tarp would cover the coil with only a ft or so of the canvas tarp showing on one side. Not a big deal. I never had an issue or a complaint...and Maverick was picky about their tarp jobs.