Any DIY experts - can you tell me how to do this (on my trailer)!

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Basically, I want to make some kind of covering for the gap above the ramp on my old Rice trailer. (The "real" thing from a trailer retailer costs £78 - not paying that!)

Here is a link to what I want to do: http://classified.pcuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/563750-375x500.jpg

Ie a tarpaulin that you can fasten down or up - but can anyone tell me how to actually attach it to the trailer like the one in the picture?
 
wench said:
Basically, I want to make some kind of covering for the gap above the ramp on my old Rice trailer. (The "real" thing from a trailer retailer costs £78 - not paying that!)

Here is a link to what I want to do: http://classified.pcuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/563750-375x500.jpg

Ie a tarpaulin that you can fasten down or up - but can anyone tell me how to actually attach it to the trailer like the one in the picture?
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bungees? one end could go through a hole (which you would need an eye on to stop the tarpaulin ripping) and the other end would just need a nail on the side (presuming that the trailer is wooden). Or the bungee could stretch to attaching on the ramp?

That would work for the bottom half but the top looks like rivets. Looks like it could "just" be large screws screwed in but again, no idea of what the trailer is. Same rule (IMO) woul apply to making sure you have "eyes" around the nails to prevent the tarpaulin ripping.
 
umm, i'd drill holes in trailer roof and on sides just above where ramp ends when it's up. paint/treat holes. put eyelets on plastic sheeting. put bolts through. have elasticy hooks on bottom edge corners to fix to holes on sides of trailer.
 
I am curious to know why you are doing this? If its to stop rain getting when the trailer is stood then a cheap B and Q tarpaulin and a couple of bricks would do. If you are going to travel your horse with this shut, I would wonder why? I say this because not so long ago I followed a trailer with a big horses it in who had got his hay net wrapped round his throat somehow and was absolutely desperate. I was able to overtake the car and trailer and stop them and alert the owner. I was able to see the horse and the onwer was able to lower the ramp very quickly. With 'curtains' neither would have been possible. Its just a thought - and might save you some money!!
 
Ooooh we used to have a trailer with exactly this on the back.

You see the little steel riveted holes on the tarp?... well for every one of those fixed onto the back of the trailer is a matching steel nob, shaped like a semi-circle, with the flat side of the semicircle the bit attached to the trailer. You poke this through the steel rivet, and then they twist from horizontal to vertical, making the join stable

I ahve no idea what these are called, will have a google and ask my dad later he's bound to know, dad's always do :)
 
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