When rolling the straps up if you fold the 1st 3 ft or so in half then wind it up you will have a nice tightly wound core which gives more weight when throwing over loads.
F-reds:
Rikki surely you don’t advocate chucking the hook end■■?
Actually against the majority I do, it is easier to throw it as it is weighted, once over the weight means the wind is less likely to move it up/down the load, in 25 + years of throwing straps in this manner I seem to have been able not to hit anyone on the head (or anywhere else) and not through any car/office windows- possibly because I use a bit of common sense and check around first.
dozy:
thanks all, I would say I’d try the different suggestions , but I’ve admitted defeat , just not settling at all, not sleeping , worrying etched etc etc , told them today they either have to take me off job or I leave , not a threat I just have to look after myself .
Thought I was settling this week , just on concrete ( flats ) this week and I started to settle down a bit , but told me got to take a big building into central London the pick part of a tower crane up , my mind went everywhere ,so much to think about , permits, height, width , times etc etc .
Have it my best shot but I just end up worrying about everything , thinking , just dreading sat , if I can get back to yard dump it , not sure I’ll return
Thanks again for your advice , sorry to ramble , my heads going again
Dozy, why don’t you find a nice job trunking between depots on nights up and down a motorway ?
No traffic or worries about destinations just a simple there and back a few times , it would make your life easy and less stressful.
Themoocher:
damoq:
I don’t need to worry about chucking straps over my pallets anymore. My new trailer has got those ratchet straps that run on a cable and bungee system attached to the roof. Undo the the ratchets and the straps pull themselves back in.[emoji1]I think those straps are a load of s…t.
They don’t seem strong enough to me. 9 times out 10 they look cheap s…t.
They ok if got really light load but wouldn’t fancy securing heavy pallets.
They’re actually heavy duty straps and ratchets. Not looked at the load rating on them but they are quite thick. I reckon they are 10t rated.
The only problem I have with them is that you need to use a ratchet on both sides to secure the strap. You’d think there would be a hook on one side and the ratchet would on the other side. Just takes twice as long to strap things down.
damoq:
Themoocher:
damoq:
I don’t need to worry about chucking straps over my pallets anymore. My new trailer has got those ratchet straps that run on a cable and bungee system attached to the roof. Undo the the ratchets and the straps pull themselves back in.[emoji1]I think those straps are a load of s…t.
They don’t seem strong enough to me. 9 times out 10 they look cheap s…t.
They ok if got really light load but wouldn’t fancy securing heavy pallets.They’re actually heavy duty straps and ratchets. Not looked at the load rating on them but they are quite thick. I reckon they are 10t rated.
The only problem I have with them is that you need to use a ratchet on both sides to secure the strap. You’d think there would be a hook on one side and the ratchet would on the other side. Just takes twice as long to strap things down.
But better than having to faff arouind opening both curtains to take one pallet off if your ratchet’s on the “wrong” side". Trust me they’re a bonus on multi-drop.
Having said that; I was talking to one of Countrywide’s drivers t’other week who said his were a royal PITA because they wouldn’t slide up and down the cable without snagging. Our own lorries are gradually (and not a moment too soon) going over to the Don-Bur system which uses a rail rather than a cable.
My personal view; in a lot of cases they’re just a solution looking for a problem that didn’t really exist. When, like us, you carry stuff which settles in transit it still means the straps aren’t nearly as tight when you get there as when you left, so the internal straps which have served for 40 or more years would have done the job just as well.
I’m not really sure either if DVSA could actually make it stick if anyone was brave enough to challenge their “guidelines” in court; trouble is that since they hold all the aces as far as operators are concerned, they can pretty much do what they like without fear of being challenged.
Rikki-UK:
F-reds:
Rikki surely you don’t advocate chucking the hook end■■?Actually against the majority I do, it is easier to throw it as it is weighted, once over the weight means the wind is less likely to move it up/down the load, in 25 + years of throwing straps in this manner I seem to have been able not to hit anyone on the head (or anywhere else) and not through any car/office windows- possibly because I use a bit of common sense and check around first.
I’d say you have been lucky . You can check all you want but people and things move and normally when you least expect it to . The last place I worked (a large factory with a dispatch manager with nothing better to do than watch the cameras over the yard and loading points all day) if a driver was seen throwing the hook end he’d be stopped and given the option of sorting his straps or being unloaded and banned from site .