Will I like Flatbed?

What ever.

 

Walking on tarps to spread them out when it's snowing is spooky. The snow sticks to your soles and turns to ice, ice on vinyl is no joke. Even on a uniform flat load you feel like Humpty Dumpty.

 

I dont like heights. Call me what ever you want... after being abandoned on top of a load of hay once with no way down.. I have been refusing tall tarp loads. Occationally one sneaks in. If shipper wont help.. it doesnt get loaded.

I am deathly afraid of heights. I dont fly either.. not with out something to take the edge off.

Now you guys have something to really poke fun on me. Sad.. but very true.

Hurst

 

I had a problem with heights before getting into this line of work. But I still get the willies if I'm on top of something that wobbles or shakes. I won't ever get on top of something more than 5-6 feet off the deck without fall restraints. Not worth the risk.

 

I'm not quite as bad as you but there have been some sketchy times. I had to tarp a big load of steel tube once, that was horrible. I had to crawl across it like a toddler to get the job done.

I hate those places that make won't let you leave their property to tarp, but you can't get on the trailer, and you have to wait in line to tarp. Specially if it's a small load.

 

Won't hear me laugh Hurst ! If it's over my bows tfb and it ain't getting tarped .

 

I went to get a load of hay. The farmer had me chasing him and his tractor all over this field as the (round) bales were all over the place. The place I was delivering to in Texas wanted the load tarped. No wet grass. They were paying by weight I guess.

Anyway,. I had the farmer lift me and my tarps up top. I'm rolling them out and he gets a phone call. Says he has to head back to his house. He'll be right back. 3 hours later,.. the sun is going down,. .I'm still sitting on top of this 14ft tall load (Yes,.. 14ft and 11ft wide), I'm itching,. its getting cold and the farmer is no where to be found. I grab hold of a tarp,.. wad a section up and try to use it to slow my fall and I tried to slide off the side. I hit the ground with a thud and knocked the wind out of me. Farm house was dark. I'm a fat rolly polly guy,.. so imagine what it was like coming down of that ish. I Waded up my tarps on my catwalk and used a couple ratchet straps to strap em down right there. That hay and no other hay load have ever been tarped on my truck since.

F' em all.

Hurst

 

That's what I did in North Dakota and mont last winter ...never again !

 

Might have been same farmer,.. Mine happened in North Dakota too. Was running pipe out of San Antonio back in 2014. They were paying crazy money,.. guys were dead heading back to texas to just get more pipe. I'd always take something back to cover fuel.

I'm sitting up there on top of that hay,.. no tabacco (I dip Skoal), no phone, I pee'd twice,.. only reason I jumped off was because I had to poo. Else pretty sure I'd have spent the night up there. I left a nice steamer in the grass. Called my wife and told her what happened. She cursed the farmer good for me. She wanted the brokers number to find out who the farmer was,.. I calmed her down before she got everything worse than what it was.

Hurst

 

##### that noise Hurst..........

Your Wife certainly should have made noise.......Make the farmer accountable If you were to get hurt on his property..Let Alone leaving you up there for 3 hours..I woulda Been so Pissed off at EVERYONE involved in said shipment, Whether it was their fault or not

Just reading the story Pizzes me off.......

I did Hay back in January from Townsend,MT back east to VA. They Not only Loaded it for me But the Father/son combo got up top,Tarped,cross chained it and bungeed it, All I did was toss straps.... Cool Folks.