Punchy Dan:
Why reply to someone who last posted in 2015 on a thread last posted on in 2013
MrHat with his 2 posts spamming his company products is what has caused that.
Notimetoulouse:
anybody NOT strapping reels is nuts and just asking for trouble
Agreed. Reels of paper are totally different to the ones that came out of the mills between 1980 and 2010. Thousands of these could be carried the length and breadth of the country without so much as a strap in sight every single day.
However, the modern reels are a completely different animal and are likely to come out of the side of the trailer at the merest sniff of a roundabout.
Harry Monk:
Notimetoulouse:
anybody NOT strapping reels is nuts and just asking for troubleAgreed. Reels of paper are totally different to the ones that came out of the mills between 1980 and 2010. Thousands of these could be carried the length and breadth of the country without so much as a strap in sight every single day.
However, the modern reels are a completely different animal and are likely to come out of the side of the trailer at the merest sniff of a roundabout.
You must be right Harry, them ones i carted through the ninety’s must have had glue on the bottoms cos they didn’t move anywhere. 
But we didn’t have to worry about VOSA and their on the spot fines 
Mick Bracewell:
Punchy Dan:
Why reply to someone who last posted in 2015 on a thread last posted on in 2013MrHat with his 2 posts spamming his company products is what has caused that.
Indeed Mick… somebody reported those posts, so it’s now been dealt with.
Remember when we used to load those on a flat trailer out of Tilbury, used to load them on there side laid down, chock under the back reel and sheet them up, get up to Hartlepool, back up to the concrete ledge ,take the sheets off then pull the chock out by the rope on each end and 20 ton of reels would just go rolling off the back of the trailer, the forklift driver used to just sit inside the warehouse door rounding up any strays that tried to escape
hogpot:
The way i do it is a ratchet on each reel, 2 corner pieces on each reel. If you load these sort of reels from tilbury they strap it for you the same way. You can also use those rubber strips underneath the reels to stop them slipping.
Just don’t use matting on a joloeader trailer
Harry Monk:
Notimetoulouse:
anybody NOT strapping reels is nuts and just asking for trouble
Agreed. Reels of paper are totally different to the ones that came out of the mills between 1980 and 2010. Thousands of these could be carried the length and breadth of the country without so much as a strap in sight every single day.
However, the modern reels are a completely different animal and are likely to come out of the side of the trailer at the merest sniff of a roundabout.[/quote
I used to strap the rear couple of rows on longer trips if coming of on a system or I had to jo load them out the back as the pendulum effect saw the last two or three rows move a couple of inches making it difficult to get past the last post or doors frame but all the London presses never