The first proper roping and sheeting I did was on Frank Tuckers hauling suger out of Silvertown Tate and Lyle. The worst load I had roping & sheeting was grass seeds in sack for Parnell & Laing when they were about.
miketdt:
The first proper roping and sheeting I did was on Frank Tuckers hauling suger out of Silvertown Tate and Lyle. The worst load I had roping & sheeting was grass seeds in sack for Parnell & Laing when they were about.
In sacks? You were lucky.
Try roping and sheeting a load of loose grass seed! 
mickfly:
miketdt:
The first proper roping and sheeting I did was on Frank Tuckers hauling suger out of Silvertown Tate and Lyle. The worst load I had roping & sheeting was grass seeds in sack for Parnell & Laing when they were about.In sacks? You were lucky.
Try roping and sheeting a load of loose grass seed!
Loose fish would be a bit awkward too!
haddy:
mickfly:
miketdt:
The first proper roping and sheeting I did was on Frank Tuckers hauling suger out of Silvertown Tate and Lyle. The worst load I had roping & sheeting was grass seeds in sack for Parnell & Laing when they were about.In sacks? You were lucky.
Try roping and sheeting a load of loose grass seed!Loose fish would be a bit awkward too!
If you stack them head-to-tail in blocks of fifty they don’t move much 
tachograph:
I learned to rope and sheet while on general haulage in the 70s.I’m probably going to get hung drawn and quartered for saying this, but it always puzzles me that when roping and sheeting is mentioned people post pictures of fully loaded vehicles with fully sheeted loads which are usually pretty rectangular in general shape and often nothing more than wooden crates, frankly almost anyone in them days could make such a load secure and look good.
I’m not saying everyone did because they certainly never, I’m just saying that almost anyone with half a brain could.Try roping a load of mixed small and medium sized garden and farm machinery with perhaps only some parts of the load that need sheeting, or a load of timber with mixed sizes of bundles that has to be secured and kept dry, then lets see how tight the sheets remain after a few miles in wet and windy weather, or picking up a back-load of tractors with only ropes to secure them, or carrying a large awkward shaped piece of machinery that the customer wants kept dry.
Using sheets, and/or ropes to either secure the load or the sheet, on loads like these was generally far harder work and required far more ability than roping and sheeting rectangular loads of sacks or wood/cardboard boxes and the like.No offence intended but I just don’t get this fascination for roped and sheeted rectangular loads, they look good but with some exceptions, and there certainly were some exceptions, they were certainly not where the skill was required
A picture of a roped and sheeted load means nothing, it’s securing and/or keeping dry what’s under the sheet with minimum damage that requires the ability and skill.
I’ll leave now while I’m still in one piece
Will this lot fit into that catagory ?
A couple of pallets of boxes at the front , then a couple of pallets of 25 kg bags of cow food , finnishin off this wee " gather up"
some velux windows and a double glazed door 
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Cover on and sorted out … could have been a bit neater but was not opening out the second cover …lazy ■■■ .
In reality these things would be easier to put in a curtain sider , but a flats all i have
dingo:
Will this lot fit into that catagory ?A couple of pallets of boxes at the front , then a couple of pallets of 25 kg bags of cow food , finnishin off this wee " gather up"
some velux windows and a double glazed door
That’s exactly the sort of load I was talking about
Even with a couple of uneven pallets and just two odd shaped pallets there’s as much thought needed to secure the load and and sheet it in such a way that the sheets won’t get ripped to pieces than with an average whole load that’s flat and reasonably even.