Ive been meaning to ask this for ages. Why do they put those nets over loads of bricks and blocks?
to stop them falling off
Would have taken me months to work out that answer… Obvious innit?
Can’t see a net stopping bricks moving
Maybe wont stop them from moving, bands do that, but it stops any loose bricks from falling on the road or on someone/thing.
raymundo:
Maybe wont stop them from moving, bands do that, but it stops any loose bricks from falling on the road or on someone/thing.
Yes bands do break and thy will stop lose bricks faling onto the road but beleave it or not if a net is tied down correctly it will hold packs to the bed of the lorry i find the best way is to use nets and ratchet straps beleave it or not you still gt some people carrying bricks with no net or straps bangin on bt hw in the old days thy neva used to but iv gt the philosophy id rather spend 15 mins in the yard tieing them down than a life in prision when a brick comes of my lorry n goes thru a car windscreen causing a fatal accident nets are like anything and weaken after a while n lose there streanth so thy do nd to be changed ocasionaly
Thanks for a sensible answer as I’ve seen some with nets some without and have never done that work
When I was a lad I worked briefly in a brick factory, and sometimes we used to go outside and help load lorries.
In those days bricks were handballed directly on to the bed of the trucks. We worked in gangs of three and the truck would be parked alongside a stack of bricks. One man would take four bricks at a time from the stack and pass them to the second man. He would pass them on to the third man who stacked them on the truck.
First a line down the middle; then outwards towards the side with the bricks all longways down the bed. The outside row was turned sideways and the side raves would tilt them up slightly. Just keep on building until 5000 bricks were loaded (5 tons approx). As soon as he moved off the next one would be there impatient to get on.
The driver would throw a heavy net over them and rope it down and off he would go.
Santa:
When I was a lad I worked briefly in a brick factory, and sometimes we used to go outside and help load lorries.In those days bricks were handballed directly on to the bed of the trucks. We worked in gangs of three and the truck would be parked alongside a stack of bricks. One man would take four bricks at a time from the stack and pass them to the second man. He would pass them on to the third man who stacked them on the truck.
And that is how they discovered how to make a camel go further in the desert 
I used to carry baled paper and used nets on that too, less chance of it snagging on the baling wire, and it kept most of it in the bale.
As long as the packs are banded well they wont go anywhere but a tight net will stop them falling off the lorry if they do make a break for it. I drive a dropside and if the bricks come above the sides i normally put abit of skrink wrap round the top part
The ones that are shrink wrapped are normally ok it’s the loose ones that are just held together by a few bands that need the nets, I’ve had a couple where the bands have been weak and broken in transit, luckily the net has been there to stop them spilling onto the road.
If need be I’ll throw a couple of straps over to keep things tight.
On the subject of netting; I can’t understand the obsession with sheeting tippers; fair dos on crushed material or carrying compost but sand and ballast is moist (at best/worst running out of the back at our pit 
) yet an increasing number of sites insist on it. The actual concept of sheeting doesn’t bother me as I think it reduces the number of “a stone fell off blah blah can I have a £1000 please?” but I’ve been to sites where you have to sheet the load before you go in. WTF for it’s going to fall off when the tipper goes up FFS…
Hiya …i think you’ll find the nets hold alot more than you think…i did a change over with another chap
he was’nt with the trailer when i got to the truck park, i just backed under the trailer and off i went like
someone posessed. i picked the trailer up at Hulland ward although the bricks had come from
peterbourough and i was to go Belper ambergate ripley up the M1 to wakefield.it was 5 in the morning
really dark so never noticed anything out of order. as it got light i saw a bulge in the net but was already past barnsley and kept going like hell(this was in the early 70’s)so never pased annyone as the roads
was quiet not like nowadays, when it got really light i thought OH s…t whats happened but i was only about a mile off the juction and the site was about half a mile off the motorway(infact when i go up the M1 i look at the houses and think i took the bricks there)and risked it to the site…and i made it no problem…when i
unfastened the net about 1500 bricks fell off the trailer but none had fell off onto the road.
i never said anything but when i next saw the chap i’d changed over with he said how did you go on with the load that had slipped. did i restack them before i left hulland…IT was his fault and never told me…
he could’nt belive i’d gone from Hulland to wakefield with the load hanging over the chock rail.
AND i still can’ belive how i got away with things…SO a net will hold quite alot of bricks on a trailer…
lucky me John
You cant beat that good old fashioned combination of friction and gravity.
even the farmer did a double take.
Or if you want to be safer, then use this type of trailer: (I currently do with them.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22420011@N05/3785219708/
Ken.
434mike:
You cant beat that good old fashioned combination of friction and gravity.
even the farmer did a double take.
, makes you wonder what goes through peoples heads sometimes.
nets didnt help me …had a trailer load of block pavers on that had already been craned on and off another truck from marshalls in halifax and delivered to marshalls at ramsbottom ,i craned them on to my truck and all the packs were very sloppy cause the banding had worked loose. i took them to liverpool but had to keep stopping to straighten them up.when i got to the housing site the foreman told me were he wanted them and i was mightely relived to get them all off …in one piece. on further inspection it turned out they were the wrong colour and had to go back. i straightend them up best i could but by this time the bandings were useless threw on my net and set off back to ramsbottom. i went via the east lancs instead of m62 so i could keep stopping to straighten the packs. all was going well till i was in some roadworks down to one lane the outside one for about 3 miles and to my horror i looked in the mirror and saw a pack starting to lean. there was nothing i could do and as though in slow motion they all started falling off. i stopped as soon as i got through the roadworks a guy in a van slowed down to tell me bricks were falling of my truck and what a so and so i was. i quickly straightend them up again and got going before the police arrived. that was the longest most awfull journey back to depot i have ever done …the nets didnt help me
overdrive:
nets didnt help me …had a trailer load of block pavers on that had already been craned on and off another truck from marshalls in halifax and delivered to marshalls at ramsbottom ,i craned them on to my truck and all the packs were very sloppy cause the banding had worked loose. i took them to liverpool but had to keep stopping to straighten them up.when i got to the housing site the foreman told me were he wanted them and i was mightely relived to get them all off …in one piece. on further inspection it turned out they were the wrong colour and had to go back. i straightend them up best i could but by this time the bandings were useless threw on my net and set off back to ramsbottom. i went via the east lancs instead of m62 so i could keep stopping to straighten the packs. all was going well till i was in some roadworks down to one lane the outside one for about 3 miles and to my horror i looked in the mirror and saw a pack starting to lean. there was nothing i could do and as though in slow motion they all started falling off. i stopped as soon as i got through the roadworks a guy in a van slowed down to tell me bricks were falling of my truck and what a so and so i was. i quickly straightend them up again and got going before the police arrived. that was the longest most awfull journey back to depot i have ever done …the nets didnt help me
Load shift is ■■■■■■■ horrible! I had a pack of bricks collapse on me today with timber on top. Really not bloody nice. The only small saving grace is like you i had a crane, but only sorts the problem to a degree. I assume you had a flat? Dont marshalls normally use dropsides?