Too true so he has, we’ve condemed him too soon, he may have done this many times. Still don’t like to see strap hooks on chock (side) rails though, they ain’t very strong, I’ve seen them turned up like a page corner in a book. Don’t get me wrong straps are very versatile and clean and quick to use but they don’t fit every situation, I’d much rather keep half a dozen chains as a back up in my kit. If I recall, I would have had those, about Ten straps, eventually (once they came into use) and around eight ropes to cater for all types of loads. Timbers in the leg brackets of the trailer and behind the headboard, also at times a back scotch and not forgetting two sheets and a dripper (I also kept a small piece of sheet handy for covering smaller items). happy days!
Frankydobo:
Blimey your a windy lot on here, half of you must fill your cabs with straps, just in case! I agree the positioning of the straps on the OP isn’t exactly the way others would do it, but just going off a picture we know very little about the load, it may be very light, the ladders may be fixed anyway to the structure and what do you guys think a headboard is going to stop, its not the Hulk’s right hand. That load has got more chance of the top section moving sideways than going forward, I have to say though its typical of the load securing we see today and I’d hazard a guess the driver isn’t that experienced otherwise the straps would have been around the top section lower beam. Again its a case of straps overseeing any other securing device, I and others would have had two chains over front and rear in a position to stop forward and rearward movement and hold the lot still. That sort of load would have been considered a doddle back in the day. How many super straps would you have put on this below or would it have never left the yard!
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Hi Franky …thats definitely one of Harry Marshs better loads, mind that site looks a dream compared to some we had to negotiate. Three chains would have done the job, try putting straps on that lot and youd be lucky to get to the end of the street before they were shredded. I cringe these days as you see loads of steel strapped down with no protection under the straps. Theres no way straps can hold steel as secure as the links of a chain. It seems these days a lot of so called drivers are just chauffeurs or self certified experts who coming across aload like that would be standing in a pool of yellow water with their knees knocking. As you say, for the first load, two chains would have done us in our day and no worries about the headboard as we had no intentions of the load ever reaching it. Both by the way we secured the load and by the way we drove on the way to the site. Now stand well back while those experts in all there is to know about securing a load, they know little about, tell us how wrong we were, even though we never lost a load. 
Well I won’t be telling you you’re wrong cos that’s how I’d have done it, but that was back when we were drivers not chauffers. Most blokes then knew how to use chains as well as ropes.
The fergusons load looks pretty good.
Frankydobo:
Too true so he has, we’ve condemed him too soon, he may have done this many times. Still don’t like to see strap hooks on chock (side) rails though, they ain’t very strong, I’ve seen them turned up like a page corner in a book. Don’t get me wrong straps are very versatile and clean and quick to use but they don’t fit every situation, I’d much rather keep half a dozen chains as a back up in my kit. If I recall, I would have had those, about Ten straps, eventually (once they came into use) and around eight ropes to cater for all types of loads. Timbers in the leg brackets of the trailer and behind the headboard, also at times a back scotch and not forgetting two sheets and a dripper (I also kept a small piece of sheet handy for covering smaller items). happy days!
its got heavy duty side raves on the trailer, its a proper flat trailer not a chopped down taut, its got pins sockets and twistlocks