Tips and Tricks of flatbedding

when I tried that it wasn't good. Left a small gouge in the tread. Luckily it didn't ruin the tire. I figured they all rode the same

 

when I tried that it wasn't good. Left a small gouge in the tread. Luckily it didn't ruin the tire. I figured they all rode the same

 

Some of our trailers have stubby winches up front and still hit the tire on this same tractor. Ive finally got this flat set up how i want and am gonna cling to it till she snaps.

 

Found another reason to love my brick screens. Flush tarp bridge.

 

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I see where that would work good but would it wear the tarp through quicker where it rides over the edge or would the corners of the lumber be worse on them ?

 

the lumber is sharper than the screen actually.

 

What’s the deal with the clip for short strapping...........

 

I rarely ever use full length straps being a stone and brick hauler, my main straps are cut short with a pointy angle cut thats been torch melted to stiffen the point, my hands can stab them right thru a winch slot without me looking or thinking.

I get a load too tall for the shorties, break out the longies and the scrunched up ends dont wanna feed thru, plus its 10feet of extra tail.. Okay ill feed the folds to.save time. But my hands dont have the muscle memory and fumble around with it all clumsy so i used the clamp to maintain the length while i stretch out and fold up the tail. Had 2 more tall loads since and now my hands have it down but the next 3 seasons i probably wont touch a long strap once rock gets going.

 

Think Ive shared this a few pages back but will put it up again as i use it alot and in this particular instance it was critical.



Someday you might take some brokered load that has a pallet of river rock thats sat in the mud puddle back corner long enough to rot the pallet.. It happens. There is no rock vendor on earth that is gonna unstack and restack on a fresh pallet, so what they do is just pick it up, bust off the rotten skids and plop it on another pallet.. "Repallet."

The issue here exclusive to river rock is the wire basket is not anchored to the new pallet and the nails will have pulled out of the old rotten one. You now have a loose sleeve around a pile of potato rocks and it absolutely will rise up the pile, as the pile settles downward and fattens like a nuclear smokestack on the simpsons. The wire cage will ride up like a doo-rag being pulled off and dump rocks down the highway.

You have no other choice but to rely on friction between the cage and the lower coarse of rocks which are obviously being held down by the weight of rocks above. Youve got to ratchet strap an ankle bracelet around the basket so to speak.

This is a clearer picture of a previous job. You clasp the two J hooks together hand in hand so they look like the S-trap under your sink and form a continuous loop, then braid the tail around the clasp so that when your strap loosens as the rock settles, you dont drop it down into a tire.






went 700 miles without issue.

 

what do you do with the extra? i used to fold it against the rub rail on the outside but i guessi am not supposed ot be having anything outside