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<blockquote data-quote="TooTechie" data-source="post: 1267259" data-attributes="member: 28388"><p>The people looking into your trailer want to see a pretty wall so when I loaded feeders I found that the easiest way to keep a wall looking pretty was: Start your first wall about 2 feet from the back wall of the trailer. Build it about waist high with good sized boxes. Now throw bags and odd shaped stuff behind that half wall. As you build up the wall, continue throwing the bags and odd stuff behind the first wall. The junk you're throwing back there will eventually support your "false wall." Build your walls all the way up to the ceiling. The LP guys and your sups will be looking for this. To keep your walls from falling over on you or the person you're working with, build them slanting back away from you slightly, never leaning forward. Try to make "T"s as you're making your walls as it keeps the wall together. If you make columns/chimneys, the column will fall over on you and you'll fall behind, get hurt or both. Square up the front of the boxes in each wall you make. This contributes to the prettiness factor. On each shelf of your wall try to keep it the same height. Continue making hollow walls leaving yourself plenty of room behind each wall to put small packages/oddly shaped packages and the large bags. Super heavy stuff should be put on the floor right in front of the wall you're working on. Build the first half of each wall quickly so they don't see how much space you're leaving behind the walls because they'll whine about wasting space. Light, fluffy stuff or squishable boxes should be put off to the side until you get near the top of the wall then put on top. If you build a wall on a squishable box, it will fall on top of you as more and more weight gets put on it.</p><p>The preceding is simply a set of bad habits I developed over years of working inside before I went driving. You should not follow 80% of my suggestions, but it is what worked for me and other experienced guys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TooTechie, post: 1267259, member: 28388"] The people looking into your trailer want to see a pretty wall so when I loaded feeders I found that the easiest way to keep a wall looking pretty was: Start your first wall about 2 feet from the back wall of the trailer. Build it about waist high with good sized boxes. Now throw bags and odd shaped stuff behind that half wall. As you build up the wall, continue throwing the bags and odd stuff behind the first wall. The junk you're throwing back there will eventually support your "false wall." Build your walls all the way up to the ceiling. The LP guys and your sups will be looking for this. To keep your walls from falling over on you or the person you're working with, build them slanting back away from you slightly, never leaning forward. Try to make "T"s as you're making your walls as it keeps the wall together. If you make columns/chimneys, the column will fall over on you and you'll fall behind, get hurt or both. Square up the front of the boxes in each wall you make. This contributes to the prettiness factor. On each shelf of your wall try to keep it the same height. Continue making hollow walls leaving yourself plenty of room behind each wall to put small packages/oddly shaped packages and the large bags. Super heavy stuff should be put on the floor right in front of the wall you're working on. Build the first half of each wall quickly so they don't see how much space you're leaving behind the walls because they'll whine about wasting space. Light, fluffy stuff or squishable boxes should be put off to the side until you get near the top of the wall then put on top. If you build a wall on a squishable box, it will fall on top of you as more and more weight gets put on it. The preceding is simply a set of bad habits I developed over years of working inside before I went driving. You should not follow 80% of my suggestions, but it is what worked for me and other experienced guys. [/QUOTE]
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