How to Safely Transport a Mattress on the Roof of Your Car
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 พ.ค. 2021
- When not secured to a vehicle properly, mattresses in transport can soar off and turn into missiles. Several videos of flying mattresses show it happening so fast, that some cars can’t get out of the way in time. To illustrate how improperly secured mattresses can wreak havoc on the road, Inside Edition enlisted the help of AAA’s Robert Sinclair. We tied a mattress on top of a roof rack using the twine and drove down the race track at New Jersey Motorsports Park to see if it would fly off or stay tied down. #InsideEdition
He probably forgot to flick the rope and say "That ain't goin nowhere". Works every time for me.
That’s the “activation code” for securing a load.
Yea that’s a must
Kinda Like how a car sales men need to slap the roof of the car before selling a car
@@rylantuers6702 exactly just right before he tells you he can talk to the manager to get you driving off the lot that day!!!🤣
People always forget that’s important
idk how inside edition manages to find an expert for literally EVERYTHING.
Second before this blows up xoxoxo
They built different from those other news channels lol
I don't think this guy is an expert I think he has common sense
@@lectornox 😂😁💯
@Khalif to be gay
Its so irresponsible for the mattress people to give them that rope that is the same consistency as Turkey twine
Some people might assume its enough
ALWAYS use ratchet straps
I worked at Ashley furniture, and that's what we had to give them
Actually Tyger Twine rated 490 or above works just fine for our customers who do not have their own straps but we tie it down for our customer because if you do not do it correctly nothing will hold. Most stores will not tie it down do to liability but I would rather have a happy customer, undamaged mattress & safe travels for ours :)
It looks like floss 😂😂
"ALWAYS use ratchet straps" On a highway, yeah.
But on a regular road, a rope that is as big as my small finger is more than enough if you drive carefully.
Don't let your mattress become a Sail on the highway.
@@TwinShards Or you can just be safe on all roads and use ratchet straps all the time 🙄
Here in the Philippines we can transport any furniture even on the roof of tricycle, plastic straw rope no problem we tied it like a marine.💪
So 💯 true! 🤣🤣🤣
I have even seen larger things being traveled using a motorcycle 😆😆😆
True/Totoo
@@flayful true lol
Noypi madiskarte LOL
Kahit refrigerator pa. Hahanap talaga ng paraan ang pinoy.
This literally happened to me. I purchased a queen sized mattress. The STORE tied it down and said it was fine. I drove 15-20 MPH the entire way home and guess what? It flew off the top! Thankfully 2 gentlemen stopped and helped us tie it back down and it stayed that time. It was frightening to know it flew off.
god bless u
I worked for a furniture store and we wernt allowed to tie it down for liability reasons, but we gave them some thin twine to tie it down ,I felt bad but I wasn't gonna buy every customer ratchet straps
@@burnthecandleatbothendz Ya I understand that. I’m pretty sure this guy owned the furniture store
Ok
which store was this lmao
*everybody gangsta until the mattress starts flying away and tries to kill some1* 💀
Wtf my guy 🤦♂️
😒
Final destination moment
@@natasanjaya778 lol
0:28 looked like someone tried to jump over the mattress 🤣
nice catch made me laugh my ass off. 😆 LOL
"We swerved out of the way just in time."
Bit dramatic 😂😂😂
I don't even own a car yet, and I'm not even planning on getting a new mattress, but this is actually good information for future purposes.
if you seriously think anything other than a ratchet strap would hold for anything over 30 miles your crazy
@@exruix7683 I know, you gotta use more straps, and thicker ones too
I’ve had many things fly at me on the highway. A couple times it was a mattress. Also in the middle of the highway I’ve come across a couch as well as a washing machine. Also went through a storm of styrofoam peanuts. 😬
Best I had was a hobo
I had a chair, lamp, and a metal cart and hubcap. The metal ones were most dangerous
One time when my sister was driving, a giant tarp was flying down the highway. We narrowly avoided it, but I looked back and saw it color another cars windshield. I was so scared they were gonna crash, and I can only imagine what the people inside that car were thinking...probably screaming if I were them.
@@no_name_needed8926 that would be scary. Just goes to show anything can happen and you always need to be aware of your surroundings.
I'm either lucky or haven't spent enough time on the highway. Because i never have anything fly towards me
Somebody took this beamng drive meme to a next level
1950s : *We'll have flying cars in the future.*
Future : *How to safely transport a mattress in your car....*
I work at a mattress store and tie mattresses and box springs on top of cars everyday. I've tied thousands of them over the years. We use rope. Not dental floss, like they had here. I dont know what kind of place gave them that.
I'm with you, I own two stores & we use Tyger Twine for our customers...it works just fine if you know how to tie it down correctly.
Would be better to show exactly how to use and wrap the mattress with those ratchet straps .
@@jeskeepinitreal 😂lmaooo exactly!!! .. unfortunately with kids in other states and expensive mattresses I’ll do anything to get them home! ✌🏼☺️
Ive seen people hold the mattresses with their hands out the windows. Its incredible.
I work at the Salvation Army as a donation attend and you wouldn’t believe how many times a customer would come up to me or someone else and ask if we have rope to tied down a mattress or some other type of furniture on their car roofs. How the customers get home with the way they fit their furniture on their car roofs always scares me😳
When I worked for a hardware store, people always ask me to strap things down or tie them because “others done it in the past” I tell them hell no because that’s a liability case if that thing comes off and goes flying.
What scares me is the thought that people will intentionally go somewhere to buy a mattress or whatever without bringing any rope, bungee cord, and/or tie down strap.
@@cmndrkool321 it’s the same thing with me, I can’t help load or tie anything down because of liability claims but a lot of customers just don’t want to understand that and want to argue the point with me or the managers😞😒
@@rabidcujocrazy7462 don’t forget they also don’t clean out or organize their cars before hand when they go to buy something like furniture and it take forever to get things organize😩
Yeah that's why at my store we have a policy to not help customers. If the thing flies off, it's their liability, not ours.
Happened to me some years ago. Following a truck with the mattress in the bed not tied down evidently. Wind caught it and it was airborne, straight into my 2 front tires. Bent the metal into my tires. Left to deal with it on my own as the driver left the scene and their mattress. I avoid getting behind anything on top or in the bed of a truck.
One more reason to just buy your mattress online.
Yeah I just paid the delivery fee instead of going through the headache of bringing it home myself
👍I have never ever used a ratchet strap but I want to however they scare me & that’s how I ended up here. This video is fantastic! I appreciate you. Thank you sir 🙏 from all of us daddyless daughters out here. Daddy taught me a lot of stuff but he didn’t get around to teaching me about ratchet straps. RIP daddy. 🙏💝
Rest in peace to your dad 💕
@@hayleyy_.j - 😞Thank you. 😞
@@hayleyy_.j - Thank you. 🙏💝
Dang... I ALWAYS use ratchet straps, but they neglected to mention something important, at least important to me. I always strap front to back and side to side. I use one strap front to back, then two side to side- front left to rear right and front right to rear left. I have never lost a mattress and the front to back strap prevents or minimizes the flapping in the wind.
This👍
I pray that everyone that sees this becomes successful in life
No
No im not subbing to u
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Title of the video:
BeamNG players: *"We don't do that here"*
I was looking for this comment
If they used rope on the 1st test it would have been much worse, you would hit like 80mph then "snap!"
The mattress people really need to give better rope. It’s an absolute disgrace how flimsy the string they give is. They need to stop being so cheap actually put safety first.
Or better yet, sell ratchet straps or rent them out for folks who don't bring their own that way nobody has to worry about how strong a string is because that's not good for anyone involved.
Thats nuts!!!
Thanks Inside Edition, me and the lads now know how to create missile launchers with just a car, a mattress and rope.
Yes! They got an expert on mattress transport!
Yesterday I saw a refrigerator on the side of the interstate in 3 pieces (base and 2 doors)
Could you imagine?
Lmao hell nahh, that's crazy
I saw a small lawn tractor strapped to the roof of an early 2000s Ford Taurus wagon the other day
Nows thats what you call a hot bed
I always use 4 straps two for the sides and two for the back and front
Good information once I cross the boarder to the U.S from Mexico I’m confident I could fit in one
Damn inside edition is uploading at the same time
Ikr
😊😊😊 thanks for sharing knowledge
Ha.. just one mattress! Here in Africa we load 50 mattresses up a pick up and and tie them the old fashioned way
Right here in my country we use tricycle im surprise how idiot these people
@@hjkkotsu4680 man I can’t stand it out here in the us, there’s so many idiots bro
I had the fiberglass part of inside of hot tub fly out of hot tub from car trailer on RT495 few years ago.. caught all on my dash camera, lucky nobody was in right lanes cuz I definitely would have got in accident.. ppl need to take more caution when moving or buying big products.
what is best to use to protect a matress for bad weather conditions like rain and snow while in transit on the car roof?I saw you guys in the video had a kind of a plastic bag wrapped around it.Would this be strong enough to drive 65MPH steady without any problems?of course by winter can't drive that fast on snow or in strong rain
This is the most educational thing I’ve ever seen
That's like using shoe lace and also I didn't even know some stores gave you stuff to tie it down or try to at least
Dudes rented an entire race track when an empty field would have worked just fine
I've never thought i would see this
& this goes for many things other than just mattresses!!
America: *Uses ramen noodles for transporting mattress*
Sleepy Sal is the true expert on safely transporting a mattress on any vehicle.
It was scary enough swerving around a mattress in the middle of the highway. I can't imagine trying to dodge one that had just flew off.
Who knew a bed could do that much
I see this all the time around here. People drive around with unsecuredd loads all the time. If your not nfamiliar with ratchet straps I would recommend most people to get a cam strap or NRS brand strap. Typically used for tying down rafts and kayaks, they’re a little easier to use and more fool proof
“We swerved out of the way just in time.”
Proceeds to drive straight forward as if nothing happened
1:06 The guy with the black jacket put his see through mask wrong 🤣🤣🤣
0:26 that mattress flew for its life
Haha it looks like señor’s Boy Scout knot didn’t hold lol
they have a expert for putting a mattress on car. damn
I've always needed to know this! Thanks inside edition!
Mattress really just said “Ight I’m bout to head out” 💀
Him : 60-65 on racetrack
Me: 60-65 in residential
Oh no the mattress fell out............... why was the mattress on the highway any way 😂
Have use twine many times to move a mattress and never had it move or fly off the top of a vehicle. Also using a ratchet strap can damage the mattress and also void the warranty on a new one by damaging the sides of the mattress
Beamng nailed the matresses
☆Mattress falls off☆
☆Mattress be like: WEEE!☆
Wow thanks for teaching me how to tie a mattress on top of a car even though I won’t ever need it
Yeah you can do that too, but I didn't have any, so I tied it from front to back and side to side. Went from Southern California to Northern California
Should do a test that if you can shake the vehicle only by tugging on the mattress and it doesn't come off, then it should be good to drive, but still need to drive slow. Or take local roads even if it takes a little longer.
I've moved a mattress around, ratchet straps usually work well to get a solid hold on a mattress. I was inexperienced but I made it work.
They should have used two straps. One can come loose once you start to drive so you always need a back up.
That one time you almost die because a mattress
Next up on inside edition: how to safely breath
Wow for her it must have been an action-packed day🤔
I'm glad I saw this. I didn't know mattresses could break a windshield car. I mean the mattress doesnt have any sharp objects.
Finally I see our motor sports on the news I live next to it thank god I feel like we made out out the hood🤣😆😂😂😂😂
we swerved out-of-the-way just in time lol
Beamng: nervous sweating
I like how they swerved out of the way but it didn't even matter
I vividly remember transporting a cruddy mattress on my cruddy car as it kept beginning to lift like a wing. Crossed the city at 15mph. I'm gonna do it right this time with some straps.
Charlie Knucklewavy, at least that's how I heard it
Yeah , this is I order my mattress. 😂😂
I had a geico ad 😂
Always use two straps!
People here in Alanta Need to learn how Secure a mattress also things on their trailers ...it’s like an obstacle course on I-85 😏
I need that thing
Wow they made mounting a mattress in beam a real thing!
using a closed-loop strap is best because the mattress is compressable.
If the furniture store gave you a thin piece of twine then what a normal person can do is go to Lowe's or home depot and buy a set of straps, a 4 pack starts at $15 so if you're trying to save money on the delivery fee do it right
I was gonna skip this video but I thought to my self “I swear if they got an expert for this...” 😭
That so scary and terrifying
Philippine tricycle: *We can do it without safety straps*
Typical bow ( similar to how I tie my shoe ) always holds my mattress to my roof on highway just fine
Ur pfp got me
This happens often. One time I was 10 seconds from running over one because the mattress was covering the right lane 😑
3th??
@@markhuber50 Right lane*
This is the reason I tie them up with my ATV strips with a lock
One time when my sister was driving, a giant tarp was flying down the highway. We narrowly avoided it, but I looked back and saw it color another cars windshield. I was so scared they were gonna crash, and I can only imagine what the people inside that car were thinking...probably screaming if I were them.
Couple weeks ago there was a washer and dryer set in the middle of the road and the driver wasn't paying attention smacked right into it which caused it to Ricochet into my friend's van. I was like bro slow down he's about to hit that washing machine and as soon as he hit it bam smh
it like the missiles from call of duty
It's ALL about the knot used 2 tie down
this bed is on fireeeeew 😂🔥❤️
Matress just wanted to go to vacation without being squished
“mattress experts say”
They gave you string to tie it down? What the...
I’m surprised they didn’t bring in a mattress expert
Thanks! Now I will be able to sleep on the top of my car
Love this reporter his voice is amazing
What role? I saw someone holding down the mattress with there arm while the other hand was on the wheel. Now, that's gangsta.
It reminds of that car from cars
😡That mattress retailer & the idiot who recklessly put that mattress on the vehicle using an itty bitty string should be held against criminal charges! 😡