Staines Trailers
- Thread starter Suffolk Serf
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Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Long term investment, and that's just the time it took to arrive.
- Location
- Romney Marsh
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
It'll save hours of f**king about over its lifetime I expect. Nothing worse than strapping up on your own when the hooks keep coming off the other side GRRRRR!!!!
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Roll up your straps with the hook In the middle, launch over the bales, should be able to get it bang on after a bit of practice. Then pull the strap back a bit so the hook is half way up the bale on the other side. Go round put the hooks on and they will be under tension and won't come off. Back round ratchets on, tension up and away. I find it strangely satisfying strapping on a load.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
That must be a relief mate
Nearly
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- Location
- North of York
Do the rams have manual taps to lock them up?
How long before VOSA decide they're not secure? Gits.
How long before VOSA decide they're not secure? Gits.
Better still roll them up with the hook in your hand then you won't kill the poor bugger on the other side, or break anything with quarter of a pound of metal flying through the air.
They still fly and unroll just as well and you can hook it on and walk round to pull tight, saves some exercise too.
- Location
- Wormingford, Essex
Fella this way did that, caught his mate the other side right on his head, air ambulance had to pick him up.
You must like walking . I would be giving you a talking to if you worked for me , rolling them that way . Its dangerous
- Location
- Somerset UK
Surely only dangerous if you launch the strap into the air without regard to whats on the other side. It is also quicker to roll them around the hook.
Suffolk Serf
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- Location
- Bury/Thetford
Yes I've done a lot of strapping. The trouble is on the Estate where I rent pig land the tracks are pretty appalling with some bad cambers. I've had several strapped loads slip, bales off the back as well as the odd bale on the road.
@slim shiny will back me up on the state of the tracks.
I thought that I'd invest in something better before someone got hurt. It a kind of poverty spec chaser, which works for me as I've already got a couple of loader tractors.
multi power
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
that would be brilliant for little bales
you joke but i wouldn't bet on it meeting their secure standards will be interesting to see what happens
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
just double the strap up and tuck it under twine that will keep it tight till you pull it up other side. Hope the trailer doesn't tip over if the camber s that bad and bales held solid.
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Is it buggery.
Roll the strap up double about 15 feet away from the hook and towards it.
When you launch it over the load the other end will flick out and over.
If you hold the hook up high as it goes over, you can pull the strap back down gently to your securing point with usually enough tension on it to hold it in place.
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
I can't understand why trailers/trucks have hooks instead of hoops. Wouldn't it be better if you could clip your strap onto a hoop securely before throwing it over the load?
caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Perhaps a better design would be to have the sides folding up and over the trailer when loading, like the back door on a silo trailer.
It would then be an easy job just to have a short strap and hook on each corner to secure them.
You saw the idea put into the public domain on here right now.
Royalties to me please.
Bugger that keep having to connect pipes and lift and lower the sides every time you want to move the trailer in the field in light crops and your only using one tractor to haul and load. Gonna be running so far over the fields with bales with the loader tractor else.
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caveman
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- Location
- East Sussex.
Thats what I put on a couple of flat 40' trailers that I used to use primarily for timber haulage back in the day.
On the other side, (the near side, cos it ain't good to be standing out in the traffic, re tensioning straps), I had big iron tube ratchets welded onto the trailer, (similar in design to those fence wire tensioning ratchets), which the strap went through a slot and could be tensioned up with a bar.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
You've got unhook the brakes and lights anyway though, so just wrap them up until youve finished the load.
They do look handy, but I'd be concerned that if you've lost loads due to straps failing, you'll end up with a wrote off trailer as it won't let the load go.