Tips and Tricks of flatbedding

You guys hook your rubber bands different then I do. I hook them in the flat hook, then just pull them around. You don't stretch them as far then. I will post a pic tomorrow. Works for flat hooks and straps with chains on them.

 

Its for lifting concrete stand pipes for city sewers. They manufacture them in a small town near our shop. Most places that we unloaded them had actual professional rigging to lift them off. These are for just in case they don't.

 

I'll take a pic of mine when I get hooked back onto the flat. It's homemade.

 

thx for redirecting the thread , a lot of good info so far.

 

Here is the one I use. I bought it in a truck stop 6 years ago and it still works. Big enough I can even roll up my 75' straps.

 

My homemade strap winder. I would like to replace the piece of metal that hooks over the edge with a piece of channel iron that fits snug in the stake pocket.

 

I carry my pipe stakes in the front stake pockets of the trailer. I quite often have a couple pallets in the front of my loads. Just a little extra insurance.

 

Gentlemen, it would be a shame to have to close this thread, if you want to go back and forth with one another like children, do it in PM's or swap email addresses.