AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
Duplex Lover wrote:Humm spin the trailer.
What about the front winch post and stop? you would need some kind of rollers "Up front" to roll it off the tongue.
I can use the truck and trailer to spin it on the ground but think I want it off the ground to use some kind of roller ramp to the water. Often times its, 50 feet to the water.
Flightstopper wrote:Holy hell that's a lot of work. Why not just push it off the trailer and spin the bow around with a winch?
FlintRiverFowler wrote:Flightstopper wrote:Holy hell that's a lot of work. Why not just push it off the trailer and spin the bow around with a winch?
This is the easiest thing to do.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:Flightstopper wrote:Holy hell that's a lot of work. Why not just push it off the trailer and spin the bow around with a winch?
This is the easiest thing to do.
Not always a possibility. There is a couple launches around here that have a ditch about 6' wide out the the bigger water. When I had my dads 1442, I just had somone pick up the ass end to keep it from plowing muck and reeds and someone else push the front. Now with my boat I just avoid those launches.
FlintRiverFowler wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:Flightstopper wrote:Holy hell that's a lot of work. Why not just push it off the trailer and spin the bow around with a winch?
This is the easiest thing to do.
Not always a possibility. There is a couple launches around here that have a ditch about 6' wide out the the bigger water. When I had my dads 1442, I just had somone pick up the ass end to keep it from plowing muck and reeds and someone else push the front. Now with my boat I just avoid those launches.
He's got a winch.
Goldfish wrote:Honestly, it sounds like you have the wrong boat for the conditions. Anything you do would be negated by just simply getting a light 14ft boat.
Duplex Lover wrote:People people.
How about this...
A drive through trailer like a lowboy.
Lay the winch/stop post over on its side. Pull a 20' tongue from under the Back of the trailer, hook to that with the truck hitch. Then lay 10 feet of rollers down the normal tongue, make the trailer tip from the back push it in and roll it off. You'd get 40 feet farther to the water and going in head first.
Yes the ditches and canals I'm thinking are barely wide enough for the boat never could turn the boat around till you get in to open water.
AKPirate wrote:Jason is usually right but sometimes wrong
FlintRiverFowler wrote:I still don't get why you can't just drop it off on the ground. Spin it around and then winch it in to the water head first
NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:I still don't get why you can't just drop it off on the ground. Spin it around and then winch it in to the water head first
I guess that depends on the launch. The launch I used to use that gave me this idea has about 150' just wide enough to back down to the ditch. Would be a big pain in the ass winching that far with nothing to hook to.
FlintRiverFowler wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:I still don't get why you can't just drop it off on the ground. Spin it around and then winch it in to the water head first
I guess that depends on the launch. The launch I used to use that gave me this idea has about 150' just wide enough to back down to the ditch. Would be a big pain in the ass winching that far with nothing to hook to.
FlintRiverFowler wrote:Or figure out how that trailer I posted works. Wouldn't be real hard to just have a frame welded for the rollers/ bunks to go on top of that would spin manually, sit above the fenders, and lock in place for travel.
NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:Or figure out how that trailer I posted works. Wouldn't be real hard to just have a frame welded for the rollers/ bunks to go on top of that would spin manually, sit above the fenders, and lock in place for travel.
That was my idea originally. Like the 2nd post on this thread. The pivot point would be the hard part to make strong enough.
strong enough to hold the boat would be the tough part.FlintRiverFowler wrote:NuffDaddy wrote:FlintRiverFowler wrote:Or figure out how that trailer I posted works. Wouldn't be real hard to just have a frame welded for the rollers/ bunks to go on top of that would spin manually, sit above the fenders, and lock in place for travel.
That was my idea originally. Like the 2nd post on this thread. The pivot point would be the hard part to make strong enough.
I don't think it would be at all.
Just a big spindle with a bearing.
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