Help: Tying down Washer/Dryer
#11
Senior Member
First, remember that the bottom of the washer is heavily weighted. Therefore, it's unlikely to tip.
How you do it depends on where your tiedowns are. If you have ones in the bedrails in addition to the low ones on the side of the bed, you can use them in combination. Each appliance should be against a side of the bed - whether front, side, or back. Flat against it. So you can't put them where the wheel well's are.
Measure first, but I suspect that both will fit side by side against the tailgate. You can then use one strap from lower to upper on the other side, and repeat on the other side, forming an X. That should work fine. If you stop carefully, then won't have any reason to move - acceleration pushes them against the tailgate, braking tries to send them frontwards and the straps stop that.
How you do it depends on where your tiedowns are. If you have ones in the bedrails in addition to the low ones on the side of the bed, you can use them in combination. Each appliance should be against a side of the bed - whether front, side, or back. Flat against it. So you can't put them where the wheel well's are.
Measure first, but I suspect that both will fit side by side against the tailgate. You can then use one strap from lower to upper on the other side, and repeat on the other side, forming an X. That should work fine. If you stop carefully, then won't have any reason to move - acceleration pushes them against the tailgate, braking tries to send them frontwards and the straps stop that.
#12
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Ricktwuhk (04-08-2016)
#14
First, remember that the bottom of the washer is heavily weighted. Therefore, it's unlikely to tip.
How you do it depends on where your tiedowns are. If you have ones in the bedrails in addition to the low ones on the side of the bed, you can use them in combination. Each appliance should be against a side of the bed - whether front, side, or back. Flat against it. So you can't put them where the wheel well's are.
Measure first, but I suspect that both will fit side by side against the tailgate. You can then use one strap from lower to upper on the other side, and repeat on the other side, forming an X. That should work fine. If you stop carefully, then won't have any reason to move - acceleration pushes them against the tailgate, braking tries to send them frontwards and the straps stop that.
How you do it depends on where your tiedowns are. If you have ones in the bedrails in addition to the low ones on the side of the bed, you can use them in combination. Each appliance should be against a side of the bed - whether front, side, or back. Flat against it. So you can't put them where the wheel well's are.
Measure first, but I suspect that both will fit side by side against the tailgate. You can then use one strap from lower to upper on the other side, and repeat on the other side, forming an X. That should work fine. If you stop carefully, then won't have any reason to move - acceleration pushes them against the tailgate, braking tries to send them frontwards and the straps stop that.
#15
Senior Member
Yeah, there is no such thing as too many straps either. I just took a truckload of furniture and a tailgate carrier with a dresser on it. The dresser was strapped length-wise and twice width-wise, and then one strap around the furniture pad of the circumference of the chest.