Tarping Steel Coils

that strapping over the top, will keep the top of the tarp from raising up & flapping. it is not just the sides that are capable of flapping.

 

Well if they can't pull it down good enough to keep the TOP from flapping then the sides are hopeless.

 

Its hard to see but I use a regular tarp. My chains and straps are under my tarp. It makes my skin crawl when i see straps on the outside of a tarp. Although everyone's different.

I had just one 28,000lbd coil in this pic

Ethan

 

Like said,they exert downward pressure. straps do'nt give. chains with their links will wiggle and jiggle with all the bouncing. I have yet to have 1 chain loosen up since I started putting straps on top of coils. See many trucks out of Indiana and Ohio doing it. I would'nt go down the road without them unless I got lazy.

 

Never had no problems with the top,plenty of bungies, just the sides, especially when all you have is an 8ft drop lumber tarp for coil. Gets on my nerves going down the road with that stuff billowing out. Just kept putting more bungies on,was ticking me off. It just boils down to having the right kind of tarp meant for coils.

 

Huh? I think you got that backwards... Chains don't give its straps that do. If a chain comes loose its caused either buy the material settling or you had your chains all twisted up.

 

Downward pressure huh? I'm pretty sure the weight of the coil is providing adequate downward pressure. The couple of hundred pounds the straps are exerting (that are not straight with the winches or the hooks) isn't doing crap. If your chains are loose it's because the coil settled in the racks or they were twisted or caught on the material when you put them on. I see plenty of guys that stretch them WAY out away from the load then are surprised when they get loose.

If you want them over the top on a suicide coil fine. But if you think for a second they're holding anything other than the tarp try this. Count them as "required" securement and only add the number of chains to cover what the two "X" straps don't. So on a 30,000 coil you need 15,000# of securement. So with your straps (5,400# WLL) just add one 3/8 chain (6,600#) and see what happens.

Les you haul suicide coils more than me, care to try it? Lol!

 

I've been using bailing twine...lol

 

Every suicide coil that I have seen with X straps over the top, had them as additional securement, along with the required securement through the eye. So what is your beef? You don't like the looks of it? Don't do it on your load, it's that simple.

 

Call me ignorant, but where did the idea of x-straps over a suicide coil come from? I don't see anything in the federal regs about anything over the top of a suicide coil. I haven't hauled that many, but the few I've done, I didn't put any straps over them because to me they don't look like they do darn thing to restrict front or rear movement compared to a chain through the center. If the practice of it is being questioned by some, I think they are pointing it out because it would give a false sense of security to a driver.

Back to the original topic, this is my attempt at tarping: A 4' steel tarp with a block strapped over each end to help keep it from flapping. The sides flap some, so I'm welcome to suggestions on how to do it better. My basic plan was to just keep hooking bungees on it until I ran out of places to hook them!