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Method of Unloading Straw from a Truck

The two ends of a thirty-foot piece of one-inch rope are fastened to two stake sockets at the rear of the truck bed. The rope is laid along the bed of the truck with the two strands about four feet apart. The surplus rope is placed on the truck cab. Pine straw is loaded on the rope in the truck bed and when the load is completed the remainder of the rope is brought over the top of the load with the loop hanging down the back of the load. At the unloading point, a chain is hooked into the rope loop and a tractor is used to pull the load out of the truck.


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Author(s): William O. Garlington

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Issue 16 (1954)