jessicas dad, most companies that operate tilts have started to get shut of them and move towards sliding roof tautliners. one of the main reasons for this is the amount of time it takes to strip tilts out, even just one side, another problem is customers that refuse to tip or load tilts because of the time factor and that with the gates down on each side the driver cannot move the vehicle across the yard etc unless they put the gates back up.
one of the other reasons is the amount of drivers injured because of the bad habits they pick up, instead of doing the job safely, safety gets shoved out of the window for the desire to get the tilt back together quicker, some companies have a 2 man policy on strip outs, you may want to enquire with your employer about the hse work study of stripping out a tilt, i think it’s called a safety or risk assesment or something like that, the hse guy has to assess the risk factor involved to an employee doing that task, they may reccomend that your boss supplies ladders, hard hats, steel toe cap boots, they may even decide that the work is too much for one person and that tilt strips must be done by 2 people.
it’s not an easy job and a lot of us have done it for years but it is not risk free and i am sure that everyone has had some sort of tilt stripping injury occur to them, roof bars falling out, slipping off the rigging boards, poles bouncing back into you as you drop them or even trying to lower them slowly and twisting your wrist because you misjudged the weight that you would be trying to support.
if you do the job then carry some fairy liquid, some tilt roof bars slot into rubber and they sometimes won’t go in properly, put the washing up liquid on the rubber or the end of the pole and it should slide straight in.
carry some rope too, if you strip the side out tie the rope to a couple of the eyes and throw the rope over the trailer then go around the other side and pull the rope fast and hard to lift the sheet up and over the top.
JB:
alright malc… we heard ya the 1st time
Dunno how that happened, sorry for repeating myself folks 
thanks for all the help might be up for change of job now ive just found out that ive been throughly shafted on the 48 hrs week and if they think im going anywhere near tilts or anything apart from containers for what they are going to pay they are in for a surprise i am now throughley zip off.
Stripping & rebuilding tilts.
Stop it, the nightmares have returned.
It’s alright saying they’re no problem if in good condition, when I was running them down to Savona for Micky White with containers in, they were never in good nick. Not only that but it seemed none of the bays were the same dimensions and none of the boards and bars were interchangeable. If you didn’t strip it down in exact order you could be days of head scratching with this giant Meccano. And that was just the easy bit, then came trying to re-stretch the sheet on windy Savona docks, good job there were usually at least a couple of us running together.
But safety! As a young (yes at 40 I was still young) blood showing off to his new lady, I would leap all over those frames like a monkey, wearing clogs!!!.
In an earlier age tipping aluminium blocks (3 for 20t) in Eastern France, knowing that somewhere on site was a giant forktruck, we acted daft when confronted with the overhead crane and eventually only had to lift up the sides.
Happy memories, but only because they’re now over
Salut, David.
Im just laughing at Davids post. because he is so right about the wooden boards. They never seem to fit exactly unless you make a detailed plan when you strip them.
I think I have got a puddled memory due to the number of times I have had poles drop on my head
My trick was to use ratchet straps around the uprights, then being fairly short I could stand on the straps to rebuild the roof
Them Euroliners do spoil us really
and why would the corners never EVER go back on easily!
still… i was fitter and slimmer on tilts than i am on tauts 