roping and sheeting

My work was mainly fruit and veg, a lot of which was roped under the sheet using corner boards to prevent damaging the boxes. This could be frustrating since it was quite common to dislodge one of them and to have to climb on top again to put it back … only for it to happen again a few minutes later! The worst bit I found was since a lot of the work was several drops (3 -8) and not necessarily that far apart [eg.Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley, Wakefield, Normanton, (Cleckheaton sometimes) & Leeds] that the unsheeting and re-sheeting took up quite a bit of time, which often meant that after a 200 mile drive you were pushing it to either get Normanton off or to the digs in Drighlington. One sheet OK, but a front and rear sheet, two side sheets or even worse four side sheets could be a real pain if the front sheets weren’t long enough to cover the last two pallets of the breaking down load.