Grew up on a farm you learn every thing at an early age. Plenty of hay and straw loads.
Yes I can, and a pigs ear on sheet corners it was the norm years ago as many on hear can vouch for two sheets and a fly sheet ok on a summers day, used to enjoy it sometimes but glad I don’t have to do it now.
3300John:
hiya…been doing them since i was 7 years old(about 1958) i used to go with my uncle
on corn deliveries, after the first drop we’ed put a rope(with a dolly)round the back
of the load to hold the sheet down, me one side him the other.
i’d have thought tyeing a dolly was like riding a bike. one you get the hang of it you never forget.
easy way of learning rope over a door. loop on one door handle over the top of the door then dolly onto the other door handle. don’t wrench the handle out of the door.
isn’t the proper name for a dolly a. sheep shank ■■?
John
sheep shank is different 
hanson:
learnt 35 years ago spending time where my dad worked and never forgot
+1
andrew.s:
yes i can.comes in bloody handy sometimes.
i can also do them in 1.24 scale lol.
really smart model,where do you get them or are you one of these blokes who build them from scratch
truckman20:
andrew.s:
yes i can.comes in bloody handy sometimes.
i can also do them in 1.24 scale lol.really smart model,where do you get them or are you one of these blokes who build them from scratch
.cheers,the trailer is part scratchbuilt,the bedford came from www.kitformservices.com
Fatboy slimslow:
3300John:
hiya…been doing them since i was 7 years old(about 1958) i used to go with my uncle
on corn deliveries, after the first drop we’ed put a rope(with a dolly)round the back
of the load to hold the sheet down, me one side him the other.
i’d have thought tyeing a dolly was like riding a bike. one you get the hang of it you never forget.
easy way of learning rope over a door. loop on one door handle over the top of the door then dolly onto the other door handle. don’t wrench the handle out of the door.
isn’t the proper name for a dolly a. sheep shank ■■?
Johnsheep shank is different
Sheepshank is used to shorten a long length of rope - it looks like a back-to-back dolly hitch.
My older bro taught me the “Canadian” dolly hitch - dead quick.
How about a clove hitch to start, when there’s no eye. I can do a highwayman’s hitch, too! 
Haven’t roped a load for probably 25 years, but still got the line of hard damaged skin down me fingers where the callouses and cracks used to be.
Yes learnt it for mod 4, used it regular for securing the odd bit of timber every now and again. Amazing how easy it is to do,and how easy it is to forget if you don’t use it.
F-reds
Robertthegreat:
Grew up on a farm you learn every thing at an early age. Plenty of hay and straw loads.
This for me too. Could probably tie one before I reached double figures.
I can tie a knot, knot, knot and then some more till all the rope runs out 
Can tie one,like has been mentioned previously ,had no choice when i started driving . flatbed work, only carried ropes + chains.
Now whats all this about drivers learning how to tie one as part of the cpc.
Thought that according to Vosa,a rope is not a suitable load restraint ?
Yep, your not a proper driver unless you can do one or even two dollies for extra tension or even split em between hooks to move the rope to a different position.
Simple make a loop, show loop to rope higher up, pass loop under new loop created, twist (some do one twist some do two, I prefer two as it locks in the dollies head loop but have been know to throw caution to the wind and do just one), pass slack rope through second loop then around hook and pull, do another for extra tension but be prepared to fall on arse. Tie off by a little twist and pull onto hook then go to next hook throw over load and repeat.
Whilst doing this be prepared for older driver to come along and either pat you on the back or ramble on about times stuck on Shap in recognition that you have obviously at one time been taught by an old hand.
Now who is going to admit to ending up on their arse,after pulling down on the rope and the knot slipped.?
It never happened to me . . . because i always got up quick and nobody was looking 
3300John:
hiya…been doing them since i was 7 years old(about 1958) i used to go with my uncle
on corn deliveries, after the first drop we’ed put a rope(with a dolly)round the back
of the load to hold the sheet down, me one side him the other.
i’d have thought tyeing a dolly was like riding a bike. one you get the hang of it you never forget.
easy way of learning rope over a door. loop on one door handle over the top of the door then dolly onto the other door handle. don’t wrench the handle out of the door.
isn’t the proper name for a dolly a. sheep shank ■■?
John
Are you sure John…I thought a sheep shank shortened two ropes! but I doubt a lorry driver would use that knot.
Funny enough I tied a few just last weekend after I got tired of looking at my neighbour trying to tie down an old suite onto a flat car trailer to go to the tip. I don’t particularly like him so they were all double dollies!
Maybe I should’ve told him the “flick” to undo them before he set off. 
Dipper_Dave:
Yep, your not a proper driver unless you can do one or even two dollies for extra tension or even split em between hooks to move the rope to a different position.
Simple make a loop, show loop to rope higher up, pass loop under new loop created, twist (some do one twist some do two, I prefer two as it locks in the dollies head loop but have been know to throw caution to the wind and do just one), pass slack rope through second loop then around hook and pull, do another for extra tension but be prepared to fall on arse. Tie off by a little twist and pull onto hook then go to next hook throw over load and repeat.Whilst doing this be prepared for older driver to come along and either pat you on the back or ramble on about times stuck on Shap in recognition that you have obviously at one time been taught by an old hand.
That will confuse the young un`s, but I know what you mean. Never been stuck on Shap either.
I always say no just in case they want a flat job doing. 
Did anyone ever do paper reels on the roll,dropping the
doubled up ones was always fun.
NiceRoadTrucker:
Nope! Hauled hay and straw with and without sheets, brick and block, machinery… all sorts but never, ever mastered the dolly knot. Been shown a few times but always got by fine after forgetting how to do it anyway!!
Still trying to work out how to make a load of straw safe without dollies or straps. 
My dad showed me at about 6 or 7 by age of 14 used to let me load reels on the roll on my own sheets on sideways aswell whilst he was in canteen
Also had saterday job about the same time roping and sheeting trailers at the frim he worked but that was nearly 40 years ago you never forget
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