Plywood Load

I guess when you dont pay for the tires it doesnt matter. Of course you try not to make sharp turns but sometimes it cant be avoided.

 

Hey now.....easy brother...haha...don't get it twisted. I may not pay for the repairs, but I do take care of the equipment given to me...I mean its necessary to maximize my money as you already know. It's not the drive axle wenches that I worry about. They never even get close to the tires. Its always those trailer ones that give me those issues, particularly if my load is a 48 foot load.

 

I am taking an easy I've had a drive tire ripped up at a job site because of me putting wench over tire... Wont do that again...

 

I've hauled plywood and lumber in the past, never ever been asked to tarp it, and never did.

 

#### u guys are lucky

 

Plywood or OSB? We always had to tarp plywood, especially if it was the good sanded stuff.

 

Never hauled osb, just plywood and lumber. I hate tarping stuff, so my flat rate to tarp anything was $1,000...they usually were quick to tell me go ahead and run with no tarps then lol But mills and plywood never asked for it to begin with, it was usually something else that someone would want tarped. Why, I never usually understood.
I hauled a portable saw mill, and genset years ago. The guy asked me to tarp it, I said sure $1,000 each piece...he said don't worry about tarping it, just go. So I was to follow him in his pickup, we get to the site, and its just going to be sitting outside anyway. The generator was even in a steel cabinet meant to be outside. People are weird.

It usually sits outside in the yard for days to weeks, so another 10 hours is going to make a difference.
Although some mills do wrap every bundle in the winter, which helps. I was at a plywood plant last week to pickup a forklift, and saw a a 53 foot van trailer being loaded with plywood though...not common.

 

All the plywood I hauled was stored inside, usually loaded under a canopy or inside a building, unloaded the same way, and was stored inside on the other end. The places we loaded at also loaded box cars and dry vans quite frequently.

 

Looks good to me.

I’d have poked some edge protectors up there, but only to preserve my straps.

 

I have hauled from here many times. Its stored outside, and i have always unloaded outdoors. Because I own a lot of heavy equipment I am around job sites frequently as well, it sits outside till its nailed or screwed into place at the job site, then can remain attached to the house unprotected for a while longer.
So it seems silly to tarp in my opinion. The sawmills around this area don't have any covered storage areas either. Lumber is piled outdoors, and 98% of the time delivered to an outdoor location like a lumber yard or jobsite. It is wood the way i see it...and the trees grew outdoors. I have been my own GC on the last two homes I've had built for me, and I ordered the materials ahead of time, dropped them in the yard until needed.