Window Protection While Transporting

[rshackleford]

I am looking for a tarp or blanket to cover my windows when i move machines. We spend a lot of time on gravel and lose a lot of windows.

Any advice or places where i can buy these?

[Deere500a]

http://www.themachinesecurityco.co.nz/index.php?page=cabcare-vandal-guards


Or mover's blanket & tape

[rshackleford]

I was looking for something more elegant than movers blanket but i will check out the other site.

[rshackleford]

... but way less complex and expensive than vandal guards!

[hvy 1ton]

I'd hit up your local upholster, one i know makes a lot of window protectors for combines. It'll be more difficult to make one to fit all your machines than one to fit a specific cab.

[imbzcul8r]

I had ours made at a local upholstery shop using heavy tarp material, app. 3' x 5' with grommets on the corners & midpoints, edges doubled

up & sewn. We use bungees to tie them on, ok if it's an excavator with cab guarding, forestry cabs with lexan are a pain, nothing to tie to. I

think they cost maybe $80-$100 each actually pretty cheap when compared to replacing windows, NOBODY makes a flat window anymore. If

you're hauling off highway much even if the window survives without tarping it's usually so muddy the operators are generally less than

impressed.

[rshackleford]

We are in such a boom where i am at that going to a local upholster shop would probably be a six month wait. I was hoping that there was someone that already massed produced one. It wouldn't be hard to make a square one with grommets that would fit most anything or even a cab shaped one that would fit most tractors or backhoes.

anyone have at least have an upholster shop they would recommend?

[typ4]

where out west is it booming. ? It sure isnt in the portland area.

[rshackleford]

North Dakota

[2stickbill]

We use a piece of plywood on one machine we move.

[rshackleford]

This company makes and sells several products fitting construction equipment for transport. I don't own any yet so I can't speak to the quality.

http://www.tarpcentral.com/

[masterwelder]

Welding blankets are heavy, have grommets, and come in different sizes. Check at your local welding supply. Just don't get to close to them, they will make you itch!

[Trashman]

Find a carpet layer and get used carpet and secure it with bungee cords.

[johndeere123]

We put full fenders and long mud flaps on out trucks and that solved the problem for us.

[donkey doctor]

We used plywood zap strapped to the window guards. d.d.

[Tiny]

In a pinch , Duct tape and cardboard

[BlazinSS934]

I have used poly drop cloths before. Cut a piece off the roll and just close it in each of the front doors on the backhoe


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[eric12]

if your in a boom call up your dealer and order vandal guards, they're easier and better fitting than blankets and plywood.

[9Axle]

buy an area rug at walmart the size u need buy your grommets make it yourself.then tie rubber rope to the window side so not to scratch the glass and a bungee hook to the other end to tie to machine.thats what i did they last along time and roll up nice.

[OzDozer]

Grab some furniture protection quilted pads from U-Haul. Buy some tarp eyelets off eBay (brass is better), punch holes with gasket punch in corners and edges of quilted pad, install eyelets. Tie to machine as required.
Next question? :D

http://www.uhaul.com/MovingSupplies/Protective-stuff/Quilted-Pads?id=3053

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tarpaulin+eyelets&_sacat=0&_odkw=eyelets&_osacat=0&_from=R40