JohnyRose63:
i was always taught to push it forward with a board that way you dont rip the sheet useing overhead cranes can cause problems . plenty ov practice loading at avesta sheffield. then reloading steel from vicenza
everyone as there own way i found it easier pushing it a bit at a time.
That what Jilly said 
robroy:
When I used to load steel on a tilt at Scunny the lads there were good enough to hook the cover up at the back with the crane, and move forward to the front, and back again when loaded and roof bars in, making a stripout a lot easier, then we changed to Euroliners making things easier still
when i used to load Scunny, the crane drivers would get their flasks out and have a cup of tea while we stripped out, never ever got any help of them, same at Rotherham and Shepcote Lane Sheffield.
I remember loading thru the roof in Antibes, backed in the shed, the lad in charge of loading said ‘i went on holiday to England with my wife a couple of months ago’ i said where did you go? he said ‘we went to Stonehenge one day, im sure we saw your trailer being built’ i had a crappy Overlander tilt, it was a bag of nails, matey said, let me know when youre ready to load, he then got up on his bench and went to sleep until i’d finished.
Another time i was loading somewhere in Germany, again, backed into the factory thru the doors, cant remember exactly what i was loading, but it was a ‘quiet factory’ the sign inside the doors said this in about 10 languages. The sound of my roof bars being thrown on the trailer floor did’nt impress them, i got bollocked and they gave me a set of steps so i had to climb up steps, pull out one roof bar, climb down steps put roof bar quietly on trailer floor, no help at all from the crane operator.
Most of my UK stripouts were for Continental Cargo Carriers and IRF (International Road Ferry), when i left IRF, they started replacing tilts with Euroliners, my Euro stripouts were for Morrison Freight (with the rubbish UK tilts, that within 2 months of me leaving were all replaced with Euroliners 
) and Frans Maas.
Lots of stripouts with these
I remember doing a job wit this rental stepframe tilt (Silver Fleet was the rental company) and thinking that will be back empty to Felixstowe, no such luck, sent into Scunny for steel
waiting for the crane to come and unload me
A srtripout with a Euroliner, undo doors, curtain straps, push back end of roof up, then push forward, all done in 5 mins, if you dont undo curtains, undo doors push rear roof up, push forward, all done in 2 mins, compare that to being a shortarse with a crappy shhet on a tilt, maybe 10-15 mins if youre lucky!
Here’s me last year in the old ebbw vale steel work tipping a 15 meter wooden beam for the new sport’s center.
I hated stripping tilts
tanktrotter:
Here’s me last year in the old ebbw vale steel work tipping a 15 meter wooden beam for the new sport’s center.
Haha,get back on the tanks!!!
I take my hat of to you guys who had to do tilt strip out’s… I bet it was a experience! But the euroliners of today can be a real pain in the arse stripout & bulid back up
Scott M:
I take my hat of to you guys who had to do tilt strip out’s… I bet it was a experience! But the euroliners of today can be a real pain in the arse stripout & bulid back up
Why would you want to strip out a Euroliner? Sorry mis read the post 
,thought you meant strip it down to a flat 
Oh the joys of stripping out especially in sheerness steel on a windy day. Cant say i miss it.
I have done loads of strip outs i have been on tilts euroliners for the last 16 years and prior to that i was on uk distribution work i much prefer dock work when i started on tilts i got the job because they were struggling to get people to strip the tilts but when u get the hang of it they are not to bad in the wind they can be a bit of a pain all u need is the right attitude the key to steel works is nether show the loaders how pi##ed of u are even if u have been waiting hours u must nether let them get to u other wise u will be beaten depending on the crew and what mood they are in it is possible to get them to use the crane to pull the sheet back even in scunthorpe especiely door 5 as i said the main thing u need for tilts is the right attitude and something which seems in short supply nowadays common sence i have lost count of the amount of drivers who wanted the big truck and look the part but could not handle the work in some ways i wish we still had the tilts as i was a lot fitter and when container work is short down the dock they all jump on the euroliners now which makes work thin on the ground but u would rarely see them on a tilt
Can a Euroliner strip down to a flat?
Raymond’s had loads of tilts in the 80,s we used to load them in port talbot for the continent,all the shunters helped each other to strip and do up when loaded
A friend of mine was stripping out a tilt in Turin, slipped off the side board trying to lift out a roof strut, fell awkwardly dislocating his spine… Taken to the local hospital, flown back the UK, he was lucky he wasn’t paralysed, but was unable to drive a lorry again… We use to take strip-outs as part of the job, but the risks were always there…guess there are few more drivers that had simular problems.
aidey:
Oh the joys of stripping out especially in sheerness steel on a windy day. Cant say i miss it.
A bunch of us (Chris Hudsons, I think) doing stripouts at Sheerness decided to pull the sheets back with a rope and a tractor unit - it worked well until the driver got a bit over enthusiastic and pulled a back flap clean off!
