This is my first time loading tyres into a taut. How do they do it is it like a dig zag stack?
ravanoli:
This is my first time loading tyres into a taut. How do they do it is it like a dig zag stack?
yes criss cross, but where your loading should keep you right
I am here: maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.928347,-3.269828
It’s not theirs anymore, this our England…
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ravanoli:
This is my first time loading tyres into a taut. How do they do it is it like a dig zag stack?
Tighten your straps up as tight as possible especially if you have no side boards 
Otherwise you’ll very soon have a full on “pregnant” trailer and struggling to squeeze it through the peages 
This is how they load them 
Don’t have any sides:D half load here then half near Chippenham. Di they move much?
ravanoli:
Don’t have any sides:D half load here then half near Chippenham. Di they move much?
They can do 
Full up you’ll probably only have a bout 10 ton on but don’t drive it like that.
Steady as she goes on the bends and roundabouts driver like a load of hanging 
billybigrig:
ravanoli:
Don’t have any sides:D half load here then half near Chippenham. Di they move much?They can do
Full up you’ll probably only have a bout 10 ton on but don’t drive it like that.
Steady as she goes on the bends and roundabouts driver like a load of hanging
ha sounds like you had a bad experiance there billy lol
taffytrucker:
billybigrig:
ravanoli:
Don’t have any sides:D half load here then half near Chippenham. Di they move much?They can do
Full up you’ll probably only have a bout 10 ton on but don’t drive it like that.
Steady as she goes on the bends and roundabouts driver like a load of hanging
ha sounds like you had a bad experiance there billy lol
Loaded in Burgos, 3 of us and I had the tautliner, they had tilts, race through the night and by the bottom of Miguels I thought I was towing a zeppelin
It took some sycronised squashing with the back of the other 2 tilts in Claudes and every strap we had to make it “shippable”. Had to run the national all the way up because the Gendarmes were on the Nantes peages
Wouldnt fancy that, with no side boards. Bulge enough with them in and strapped! Carefull if your shipping Brittany ferries as they wont let you on if its too fat, if they do then they may charge a supplement. Not been on them for years but I know it used to happen.
skids:
Wouldnt fancy that, with no side boards. Bulge enough with them in and strapped! Carefull if your shipping Brittany ferries as they wont let you on if its too fat, if they do then they may charge a supplement. Not been on them for years but I know it used to happen.
Yep they still rush out with the tape measure and calculator
billybigrig:
This is how they load them
That brings back memories. Did a couple or three loads in a step-frame tilt over 20 odd years ago.
This method is called “lacing” or something like that, However I was told a while back that this pratice has now stopped on export loads from Cooper Tires (Avon Tyres) unless you have boards or a box/fridge etc■■? So if your top up is from near Chippenham I,d bet it be Bowerhill Melksham so be aware.
billybigrig:
taffytrucker:
billybigrig:
ravanoli:
Don’t have any sides:D half load here then half near Chippenham. Di they move much?They can do
Full up you’ll probably only have a bout 10 ton on but don’t drive it like that.
Steady as she goes on the bends and roundabouts driver like a load of hanging
ha sounds like you had a bad experiance there billy lol
Loaded in Burgos, 3 of us and I had the tautliner, they had tilts, race through the night and by the bottom of Miguels I thought I was towing a zeppelin
It took some sycronised squashing with the back of the other 2 tilts in Claudes and every strap we had to make it “shippable”. Had to run the national all the way up because the Gendarmes were on the Nantes peages
Sounds a nightmere there billy Rather you then me but i thought it was law in France to have the side boards in■■? :S now though you not get away with using the nationals.
Only ever heard of people visting Victors at burgos never loading lol
taffytrucker:
Rather you then me but i thought it was law in France to have the side boards in■■?
in his day it was also law to carry enough feed for the mules as well
Vascoingles:
taffytrucker:
Rather you then me but i thought it was law in France to have the side boards in■■?in his day it was also law to carry enough feed for the mules as well
Not necessary these days I leave her at home
billybigrig:
Vascoingles:
taffytrucker:
Rather you then me but i thought it was law in France to have the side boards in■■?in his day it was also law to carry enough feed for the mules as well
Not necessary these days I leave her at home
you know my ex wife then 
Mungo:
This method is called “lacing” or something like that, However I was told a while back that this pratice has now stopped on export loads from Cooper Tires (Avon Tyres) unless you have boards or a box/fridge etc■■? So if your top up is from near Chippenham I,d bet it be Bowerhill Melksham so be aware.
Tis indeed “lacing” . . . i wonder how they used to cope with a load like that on a flat?
skids:
Wouldnt fancy that, with no side boards. Bulge enough with them in and strapped! Carefull if your shipping Brittany ferries as they wont let you on if its too fat, if they do then they may charge a supplement. Not been on them for years but I know it used to happen.
Well it’s been a day or so, is the trailer looking a bit middle aged (bulging at the middle) yet Rav ■■
billybigrig:
skids:
Wouldnt fancy that, with no side boards. Bulge enough with them in and strapped! Carefull if your shipping Brittany ferries as they wont let you on if its too fat, if they do then they may charge a supplement. Not been on them for years but I know it used to happen.Well it’s been a day or so, is the trailer looking a bit middle aged (bulging at the middle) yet Rav ■■
He cant answer you, he is stuck in the peage in St Omer
I have done a lot of tyres and they really had tightened up with the side bars and Michelin and Wincanton used to lace extra boards through the horizontals. For added security I used to throw 2 or 3 straps over the roof before loading
I wonder how long it takes to sell a trailer load of tyres in Gib ?. Is this the new carousel ?.
Used to do Burgos to Zurich with a W+D tilt,no prob. Fort Dunlop to Bedfords in Dustable on a flat …left a few on the M1!