Enjoy looking at these propa drivers and motors
roof trusses?
T.B
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Yep, they can be a pain in the fundamental.
There was an extra long 4 wheeler turning around locally the other day with the trusses loaded right on the back and making the whole vehicle speedboat. He was doing a blindside into an industrial estate junction, this involved his n/s/r wheel running over the kerb. When he drove off - luckily slowly - this had freed every single ratchet strap from the n/s side rave. Equally luckily he only had 300 yds to go reach the building site.
How times have changed! It shows you’re old when you get excited about a new wheelbarrow 
, I got sick of welding up my old wheelbarrow, so I bought a new one, It would probably have lasted much longer if I hadn’t had lent it to my builder brother. 
It brought back memories of how they used to transport these things back in the day, I only ever went to the wheelbarrow factory in Walsall (I think) I went from our Inter-city depot in Norton Canes solo in a Volvo 86, back in the mid 1970’s to pick up a flatbed trailer loaded with wheelbarrows.
When I saw the flatbed trailer, my first reaction was WTF! They were stacked/interwoven fully assembled high, a work of art if truth told, I just roped it & took it back to the Norton Canes depot for night trunk up to our Cumbernauld depot.
They never budged an inch. 
Scotsmen JD pure craftsmen just about as good as Cumbrians , West, North, South and Furness !
Strap tightening bar.
@bewick Dennis, you once commented that with all the sunshine we enjoy, tarping would often not be necessary. We had a storm yesterday that dumped 30 mm of rain in half an hour, that’s a sh it load of wetness.
That’s a lot of rain I’ll give you that SDU trouble is it would probably all run away down the gullies and into the creeks and be lost so is there any way that it can caught and stored ?
Buckets? 
TNUK CF for PM !
Obviously those sheets were far to big for that load which was OK as you couldn’t match every load with the sheets you had on the trailer. However if you don’t mind me commenting ( some will !) this Lad has gone about the job the wrong way ! I’m not the best at explaining particularly in writing but he should have first off had both edges of the sheets down along the O/S chock rail and then got up on the top and pulled the excess nearside sheets up and over the load . Then got back down and gently pulled enough of the folded sheet down to the chock rave. Then he could have finished off tying the sheet down just as if it had been made to measure for that low load. Simples 
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Yes Dennis, we have many, many water storage reservoirs, both natural and man-made.
We also have the Great Artesian Basin. Some of that water is drinkable and in places like Winton, western Queensland the water comes out of the ground at temperatures hot enough to scald.
We live on the driest, inhabited continent on earth. Water is our most precious commodity. It’s always in short supply or over abundance.
There was major flooding in 1974 and 2011, but every other year we have less severe floding.
