Total stupidity

[kiwi pom]

You could understand it if it took hours to strap it on but it only takes a few minutes.
I can't decide whether these people just don't care or are that thick it simply doesn't occur to them that they should use straps.

 

[Dave W]

You could understand it if it took hours to strap it on but it only takes a few minutes.
I can't decide whether these people just don't care or are that thick it simply doesn't occur to them that they should use straps.

There seems a mentality that it's never fallen off before so it's ok

 

[Henarar]

Looks like they wanted to get the last few bales on one load.
should have gone twice

 

[RAF]

Thick

 

[Grassman]

A local council worker doing some road repairs on the lane showed me a letter from his bosses. Basically anything in the back of the dropside transit van has to be strapped down. Drum of diesel, shovel, manhole cover, etc.
Broken up tarmac and stone even if it's just a few bits in the bottom must be secured.

 

[Kevtherev]

There seems a mentality that it's never fallen off before so it's ok

Good job it wasn’t a tank

 

[jondear]

A local council worker doing some road repairs on the lane showed me a letter from his bosses. Basically anything in the back of the dropside transit van has to be strapped down. Drum of diesel, shovel, manhole cover, etc.
Broken up tarmac and stone even if it's just a few bits in the bottom must be secured.

I had a dumpy bag of pea gravel on a plant trailer in the middle . Thought oh it's not going to move !Had to stop quick as some kids stepped out Infront of Zebra crossing .Bag slid to front half of it ended up in road .As I looked in mirror I could see cars trying to drive over it .I was mortified !Won't ever not strap anything again !

 

[HolzKopf]

Forget bale carting - that's a given

Apart from that, our vehicles all carry three or four ratchet straps and it's standard OP that anything above the waterline in a pickup or ifor williams is strapped - simple to do

Those straps are probably lent to others almost as much as we use them and it beggars belief how many drivers are not checked out on ratchet straps. OK I can understand roping, that has to be learned and taught but ratchet straps.......

Who's in charge of these people?

HK

 

[7610 super q]

He'll probably moan there's not enough money in the job to be able to strap it down. That's the usual counter argument to health and safety isn't it?

I know I'll get shot down in flames....but.... I think there's a difference between standing in a telehandler bucket and risking your own life, and putting others lives at risk with bales falling off on a highway.
I've always found round bales to be utter twits for stacking myself. Double row on the bottom of the trailer, single row down the middle on top is plenty. Stacking cotton reel style is also asking for trouble IMO.

 

[Fendt516profi]

for the second time, I said I didnt strap down I didnt say that the load was not secure.
There is more than one way to skin a cat

I don't strap them either

 

[Fendt516profi]

 

[br jones]

Good job it wasn’t a tank

Depends on who welded up the trailer?

 

[Henarar]

I had a dumpy bag of pea gravel on a plant trailer in the middle . Thought oh it's not going to move !Had to stop quick as some kids stepped out Infront of Zebra crossing .Bag slid to front half of it ended up in road .As I looked in mirror I could see cars trying to drive over it .I was mortified !Won't ever not strap anything again !

Dumpy bags are miserable things to strap, we get blend in them and used to get one on the flat bed, strap it down and you lose some, got a high sided calf trailer now which is far better

 

[Grassman]

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They look a good system but not sure a vosa man would not say that it won't prevent the bales falling off in the event of an overturn.

 

[Fendt516profi]

They look a good system but not sure a vosa man would not say that it won't prevent the bales falling off in the event of an overturn.

I know but I don't pull it with a Fendt anymore. So got a above average chance of it not laying down

 

[kiwi pom]

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Probably just the way the pictures taken but those bars don't look like they go up high enough?
Must only be buns otherwise the weight might be more of a problem than the securement?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Probably just the way the pictures taken but those bars don't look like they go up high enough?
Must only be buns otherwise the weight might be more of a problem than the securement?

Baler said average bale weight 454kg can't remember moisture. Nice dry stuff and solid. Bars hold about a foot of bottom bale and go up as high as ladders

 

[Two Tone]

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That trailer is half empty!
They could do got twice as many layer of bales on that.

 

[egbert]

They look a good system but not sure a vosa man would not say that it won't prevent the bales falling off in the event of an overturn.

a lad local to me had a trailer load of bales tip on a junction- at the top of a dual carriageway embankment.
A tyre had blown out as he went round the junction if I recall. There was no suggestion he'd done anything wrong.
Where things got ugly were when one strap broke (or maybe it was a strapping point failed), and one round bale came off, and rolled down the bank toward the dual carriageway.
No-one was hurt, but it caused rather more furore than it might've.
He had some very tense weeks waiting to hear if he was being done for an insecure load, which is a fairly serious business when something ends up on a trunk road.

Repeat, one bale came loose, the rest were all still held on in situ with the outfit tipped over...and he was close to being done for it.

The driver in the video is likely for the high jump, and rightly so.

 

[Andrew]

Baler said average bale weight 454kg can't remember moisture. Nice dry stuff and solid. Bars hold about a foot of bottom bale and go up as high as ladders

Sorry to be bearer of bad news but DVSA wouldn’t like that. Unless bars reach full height of the load they should be strapped as well. They’ve done a lot of trucks running into Sutterton PS where the headboard only reaches halfway up the third bale. £100 fine, they made a lot of money in a few days.