How To Properly Transport A Tree Home For The Holidays | Carscoops carscoops
The Atlas’s generous interior dimensions should help those looking for a smaller tree to avoid having to climb up and reach on top of their vehicle entirely. One way or another,recommends measuring thoroughly before you pick a tree. Whether you’re measuring the distance from your trunk to the front seat, the length of your vehicle’s roof, or simply the height of your living room ceiling, you want to be sure you know how much room you have to work with.
Rather than ropes, VW recommends using a ratchet strap, which, from personal experience, I can tell you is a pretty good idea. Be sure to ratchet your tree down tight, because you don’t want it rolling around the interior of your vehicle, and you really don’t want itFinally, VW suggests that after you get your tree home, it’s a pretty good time to clean your vehicle. Pine trees can be pretty sappy, which is bad for all kinds of materials, and pine needles get everywhere.
I, for one, wish I’d watched something like this before driving home with my tree, instead of trying to feed loops through my windows and chaining bad knots. I’m not saying that was my brightest moment, but hopefully we can all avoid making that same dim mistake.
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