Tarping question

I do remember the one piece tarps, just eyelets on the side of my uncles tarps. If it was too large to fit you just had to be creative and have some rope to lash it so the tarp did not look like a sail boat.

 

when i started we only used rope, it worked well

 

My tarps don't weigh anything of course my boss let's me do what I want so I run 90% no tarp freight and if I do tarp its something like an intake and I use a small piece of a Walmart special blue-tarp......

 

True and no high velocity eye removers if it snapped like a rubber bungee cord.

I had small trimline cleats that I installed on the flatbed just under the rubrail, the rope could be lashed to them.

 

We live in the era of shrink-wrap....Shippers should use it....

 

I'm seeing more and more shippers wrapping their coils and putting hard plastic protectors on the inside. Still have to tarp the darn things though...

 

At the old LTV steel mill in Cleveland it was required that you had coil racks in good condition , beveled hardwood lumber, A piece of conveyor belt over the 4 by 4 , and paper over that. Coil edge protectors for the eye , I used the plastic inserts cut in half the guys at the mill gave me. The finished coil was paper wrapped to begin with. After tarping you were prohibited from putting A nylon strap over the top of the tarps , which I liked to do when I was still using my big old machinery tarps. Once at Wheeling Pittsburg in Mingo Junction the crane operator took my mill coil , still too hot to get near , and put it in A big rain puddle on the floor, under A roof leak and boiled the water away. Then put it on my trailer to be chaind down and tarped. Even I thought it was A hoot. I'd throw A tarp on to get by the scale and then stop and fold it up , put it away. Most everybody did that. It was silly to tarp A hot rolled mill coil in the summertime. Sleeve

 

Good ole wheeling pitt..

 

I actually hauled a 10' wide, 11' tall crate when I first started at LS with the dropdeck. I had a 30'x30' machine tarp at home but I had a great idea and called a buddy of mine who owns a marina. The tarp charge was $300, and he charged me $150 to come out and shrink wrap it with the same stuff they use on boats. Took him 30min and off I went.

Just an idea for you guys in the future.

 

If you keep doing stuff the smart/easy way your going to have to turn in your "truck driver" card. It's part of my daily entertainment watching other drivers do things the hard way.