Tarping tips

This looks suspiciously like a ChatGPT response submitted by this "new today" member.

 

It is. It's just replying with generic ChatGPT responses to whatever is at the top of the "New Posts" section. It even has an AI generated avatar.

 

What's sad, is a real new guy is going to get screwed following this kind of erroneous responses. Not sure if we can stop it, but at the least, us old hands can at least call it out when we see it.

 

Try to get whoever is loading those trailers to stop doing that. It is making it unnecessarily difficult to tarp. Try to keep all the tall stuff together and the lower stuff together so you don't have drops in the middle.

You need to get the tarp as close as possible to that lower material. If you leave a big air gap under the tarp it will flap bad and shred.

If they won't stop loading like that then start by rolling your first tarp out from the back. Pull it tight down over everything like normal. Then when you do the front start by rolling out the tarp but leave the front loose. Secure it fully over the lumber in the middle. Then pull it tight against the back of the taller material in the front. Make it a vertical wall if you have to. Then finish tarping over the top and front. This is going to eat up a lot of length in your tarp though with multiple vertical transitions so you might have to run a third tarp.

 

I went into the profile and reported it. That's about all we can do until a mod sees the reports.

 

@OldeSkool, I saw a guy up in Washington that used his dunnage to bridge gaps in the lumber. 2x4's would work pretty well if you had room. Just throw a strap over the front and back of the bridge.

Kept his tarps tight all the way down, and no sagging on the sides or top.

 

You could try to get them to split the tall pallets into two shorter pallets. Or take a couple pieces of the insulation off the top and stack them on top of the lumber to make them even.

 

just don’t look like this.
I am not an expert but seems like keeping the tarp against the load and plenty of tarp straps has worked well for me.