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It’s not a hard concept, several layers wrapped tight and it won’t move an inch.

 

I’ve seen several loads of brick in Iowa not covered

 

You’ll have to explain that to the brick that fell out of the stack in my picture.

 

It wasn't wrapped well enough. Or taped off. We use shrink wrap all the time. You can use it as make shift rope, ect, quality wrap done well is just as good as bout anything. Still need to strap it down well, but it will hold back plenty.

 

It wasn’t wrapped good enough, I wrap the heck out of it and I’ve never had a single brick fall out.

 

That and you have to make sure not to tear the wrap with the forklift.

 

That’s what I was always told? Maybe they picked up in Nebraska and just passing through and didn’t get stoped?

 

In a previous life I worked for a concrete block outfit. And hauled millions of tons worth of brick.
A properly shrink wrapped cube of brick isn't going to spread apart an inch. Even on the worst washboard brush roads you can imagine. The trouble is most lazy yardmen hardly ever pull the shrink wrap tight. Then it's just there for looks.
When I started none of our boom trucks had a winch on them. Just a woven net you pulled tight on the edge of the rail. And was just in case gravity didn't do it's thing on corners...
Never lost any then or after the law changed and we had to strap em.

 

Very possible

 

The only shrink wrapped bricks I have hauled had been banded first. The problem with brick cubes is if the get handles to much after they have been banded. Stretches the bands. Cubes get sloppy and bricks move. If cubes are wrapped it keeps them from working out. I've got a load of mixed cubes I picked up in Iowa that had that problem last Friday. They got tarped.