Fixing tarps..

[ironmanwife]

We have been fixing tarps today..and I found some good stuff for a good price..thought I'll share it..
Tractor Supply Company - Tarp Strapping Accessories
We used this One..Tear Mender Fabric & Leather Adhesive, 16 oz

 

[Sinister]

Most of us carry tarp repair kits with us. It's basically a huge sheet of tarp material, and a can of rubber cement. We cut pieces off as we need them, and that way can do tarp repairs whereever we are.

One thing we do to protect tarps is to use moving blankets on sharp edges of things. We load a lot of oddball stuff that often has pointy stuff in all directions and is not only a pain to tarp, but hard to keep tarps in good shape.

I hate pulling company trailers because they have only 1 toolbox, and we're supposed to put 14- blankets, 12- 4" straps, 2- 2" ratchet straps with ratchets, usually a 5 gallon bucket to keep god knows how many bungees, and a million little pieces of strap used as strap protectors.

Fixing tarps is one of those "necessary evil" type things.

 

[snowflake]

I have 3 boxes and looking for a fourth.......yea I have the same "tarp repair kit" too yes the moving blanket are a must and every box I have sems to have bungees trying to jump ship......ullhair:

 

[Sinister]

Bungees are a huge pain to keep in a toolbox, but where I work, (when I work...) hanging then on the framerail is unacceptable. It makes them subject to theft, and exposes them to the weather a lot more. Also, you might lose a whole bundle all at once, and how smart is that?

Also, I'm sure we've all heard stories of flatbedders who have lost body parts liek eyes and such to hooks when bungees snap. I'm not sure how many of these are true, and how many exaggerated, but the closest I ever saw a guy come to losing an eye was a hook making a pretty bad cut on his eyelid.

I try to remember to wear my safety glasses when I'm going to be pulling on bungees pretty good now. They make me nervous.

 

[ironmanwife]

Bungees are a huge pain to keep in a toolbox, but where I work, (when I work...) hanging then on the framerail is unacceptable. It makes them subject to theft, and exposes them to the weather a lot more. Also, you might lose a whole bundle all at once, and how smart is that?

Also, I'm sure we've all heard stories of flatbedders who have lost body parts liek eyes and such to hooks when bungees snap. I'm not sure how many of these are true, and how many exaggerated, but the closest I ever saw a guy come to losing an eye was a hook making a pretty bad cut on his eyelid.

I try to remember to wear my safety glasses when I'm going to be pulling on bungees pretty good now. They make me nervous.

This thread is about TARPS..Not bungees!!:cop:

 

[Sinister]

Wait till I make completely off topic female period jokes before you complain. :neener:

What size tarps you guys use? The ones we have are huge. 26'long. I always hated rolling out two huge tarps, so I finally put a cheap blue tarp in the headache rack. Naturally, I've never used it.

 

[ironmanwife]

Got a update..the patches came OFF...don't use it..crap..now we gonna try gorilla glue..lol

 

[Flatbedpete]

Rubber cement or I have heard PVC cement and other tarp material works well from old destroyed tarps. Moving blankets are good, the wife found comforters real cheap and they work well also. The best that works for us is conveyor belting on coils along with the blankets over that and then your tarp. The only time this has failed is because of banding breaking and the coil starting to corkscrew and cut every thing.

 

[Sinister]

Yeah. Rubber cement, and pieces of old tarp work good. Unless you get a rip you can drive a Yugo through. Then, you got real problems...