800 kgs have another guess ffs, or are you still googling how to do a Dolly Knott? not sure you would be safe with a bike on the Woolwich Ferry from what i see? We had some drivers like you but not for long lol
Thats how they load the dodgy waste bails at our place.They hook the straps all the way down the trailer at one side walk across to the side they are loading from and throw the strap over the roof .Once a double stack are loaded they pull the strap down over the bails and tighten them up .
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I also learnt by doing, sometimes doing it the wrong way first. One day I was in the yard and the TM said " hereâs directions to a foundry near here, go and bring back a trailer loaded with an iron slab. Go and get some chains from the tackle shed but if there arenât any use a sheet and rope it".
There was no chains left so when I picked up the loaded trailer I unrolled my sheet and just unfolded it enough to cover the edges of the slab which were rough and would have frayed the ropes if not cut them
Feeling proud of myself I arrived at the yard and immediately got a bollocking from the yard foreman for roping over the sheet. When I told him thatâs what the TM told me to do he said he meant a steel sheet not a regular one. âSteel sheetsâ are made of a tough material to be roped over rough edges. Lesson learnt.
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We were discussing the finer points of the differences, in the respective rope anchorages of UK rope hooks v Australian rope bars.In the absence of a bleedin semi trailer and rope a door and itâs handles and some power cord did fine.At least for anyone who knows what they are looking at.
As a driver/truckie , talking to drivers/truckies, the fact that a dolly is used by âdrivers/truckiesâ , obviously goes without saying.
âForgotâ that job supposedly where exactly ?.Did general haulage with a tilt sometimes used as a flat using itâs cover as a sheet, during a lay off from night trunking, has been no mystery in numerous previous posts of mine.
As opposed to your reference ââroped with double truckies hitchesââ.You are a âtruckieâ yourself right ?.
Strange description from someone supposedly within the job not outside it.You protest laughably too much.
From all the garbage you have spewed out over the years CF there is no way you can be taken seriously and you certainly 'aint no "driver/truckie . Obviously you only come by the bollox you continue to spout from trolling the internet then lifting it and pasting it onto TNUK ! None of the long standing members most of whom have been skilled drivers of many years standing can take anything you say seriously ,a joke yes but seriously a definate NO NO ! 
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I notice that you didnât answer that question regarding the lost load of reels ?.
As I said there but for the grace etc etc.Terrifying even when roped âmyâ way obviously not yours.
Assuming you even had the required rope hooks across the front and rear of the trailer and the driver knew not to rely on the tensile strength of a sheet to do the job of ropes.
I also didnât see any of SDUâs âdouble truckies hitchesâ in your illustrious photographed bare hands roping example.Unlike I did over my door with a power cord almost 40 years since doing same on the stripped tilt using ropes.
Probably would have took you too long to tie em even without wearing any gloves let alone with.
Carryfast, what is your sudden fascination with double hitches?
As usual, you are carrying on as if you are part of a small, elite group who can do them.
Anyone and I reckon everyone on this forum can do a single hitch, if they can do one, they can do two.
Methods may vary, but the results remain.
Can you not see why you totally lack credibility?
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Every post you make reinforces your lack of knowledge and experience. The man is not trying to tear the eyelets out of the tarp.
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Thatâs the best way to do it, at Ipswich docks, the timber import yard let the driver use their mobile ladder with wheels on it to access the top of the trailer to place the straps over the load.
I never seen or heard of any driver using the tilt sheet to secure a load, if the tilt has been fully stripped down to convert it in to a flat bed that is a laborious, operose,physically demanding and slow job to do, doing it alone is not possible, it will need a minimum of two or more people to help out.
No haulier or owner driver would use a tilt on multi drop work on a daily basis due to the time wasted per day faffing around with rolling the heavy sheet, climbing on the roof to remove the roof poles and so on.
To fully strip a tilt will need an overhead crane to pull back the sheet and not every customer would have a crane, they may offer the use of a fork lift either side of the trailer to raise up two people to peel back the sheet of which is dangerous to work at height.
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With a load of MDF, as previously mentioned in another post, no matter how many straps you put on each stack, as it was 3 to 4 stacks each time, the trailer would always have a bulge in the curtains at the end of the journey, whenever DVSA, the CVU or the RPU drove past I would always think it was a red flag to them to pull me in to check load security.
SDU, I donât believe CF has ever had experience using tilt trailers, I hated the dam things, as everyone has said, to strip one down completely in the hot summer can be dangerous to the health.
In the winter the thick ice on the roof has also been mentioned several times.
In the summer it would take at least 2 hours or more to do it with assistance, you would have to keep stopping to reduce the heart rate and drink lots of water with numerous breaks.
Nor do I, we all know his aversion to physical effort. He thought manual labour was a Spanish tennis player.
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That made me laugh out loud, the Spanish tennis player or Manuel from Fawlty Towers: âQue, I am from Barcelona!â.
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CF never once mentioned the weight of a tilt sheet, the time it took to faff around with it, or if needed help with it.
Thank goodness someone invented sliding roof trailers, all you needed for those was a long pole with a hook on the end to release the locking catch and then pull the roof over with the pole, that would take seconds to do.
The roof would be in concertina or coiled shape,so you could never have the front of the trailer fully exposed for the crane to lift part of the load that was right at the front of the trailer, the crane driver would have to get the delivery site staff or the driver to attach the chain or strap to it to then drag it backwards then lift it out through the roof.
The annoying issue was after you emptied or loaded the trailer, the roof would never be aligned straight so you would have to drive a few miles without it in the fully locked position until it was settled down enough to fully lock it in.
Que, I am Carriofastia from Leathehead in the Mole Valley of Surrey.
Why would you need to supposedly âstripâ a tilt for anything other than overhead flat type jobs ?.
As I said for all else not much different to a curtain sider.
You say that you never saw or used a tilt cover as a sheet for flat type work.You would have seen exactly that at any dockside like Felixstowe involving unaccompanied trailers and loads.Maybe even still today.
In my case the guvnor just applied exactly the same practice to UK general work as well.
You think that you need a crane to shift a tilt cover and strip and rebuild a tilt and the things arenât just like working with a big frame tent with manageable sections.
A tilt cover ainât much different to work with than pvc type sheets.No more difficult than curtainsiders for side and rear load jobs.
Then youâve got the nerve to say I never did the job.
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Hey up Oily you best rename this thread the âStuarâ thread, 7 of the last 11 posts were by him and most were total crap comments irrelevant as well,
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