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New boat/trailer didn't make the trip home.


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Topic Originally Created on Tow411 in November of 2008:

 

I got a call tow call for a new to the current owner boat on a trailer where the wheel bearing had failed & the axle hit the roadway tearing the U bolts loose & shifting the axle.

 

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Jacked up the damaged axle & put my ball joint block underneath (thanks tow411 for that)

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Slid the bed under until it was close to the axle, the long 2x8 was already there so I made use of it.

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All loaded up & ready to go, 2 straps in the front & cross chained in the rear with binders, a strap over the top because the rear of the boat was not secured to the trailer in any way.

 

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Unknown Member Said:

That trailer is way too little for that boat!, good job on the tow, i really like your tailboard block.

 

mooresbp level3.gif.087392b54ef5072195c2ae8b3bc64 said:

I like that block also!! Nice work!

 

svdkid82 said:

thats a sharp IH you've got there!

 

wm010829 said:

Nice job! Where did you get the tailboard block ? Bed is a dual-tech I think. Jeff-Twilight

 

Orcas Tow level3.gif.087392b54ef5072195c2ae8b3bc64 said:

Thanks all, kinda fun to get something a little different, lots more work than a standard tow though.
It's a 21' steel Dual tech bed & the tailboard block is custom, heres the link if you want to build one, its come in handy quite a few times already in the short time I have had it, the nice thing is you can winch with it even if you have one car secured on the deck, just run the wire rope underneath the car to the block. http://tow411.yuku.com/topic/47293

 

allenstowing said:

uzek, that is one sweet block you made!!! oh and nice job

 

Energizer Bear:

Uzek,
Your tailboard block is sweet and were very interested in making one for each of the rollbacks. Thanks for posting your block in action,

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Vinny8662 said:

You do have a nice truck and you did a great job recovering the boat. I am not knocking the way you loaded the boat but I have hauled quite a few large boats such as this one and always load them rear first. Because of the weight of the motor etc. it gives better weight distribution. Again I'm not knocking the way you did it, just offering another way.

 

Orcas Tow level3.gif.087392b54ef5072195c2ae8b3bc64 said:

I hear you & thought about loading it backwards, the truck rode fine but any bigger boat I think I would take your advise, more difficult to drag a broke axle all the way up & down the bed (backwards) than just a couple feet up. Thanks.

 

ricktowingvt said:

great job it fun to tow something different, make u think.

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Hello from sunny (when its not raining) Orcas Island

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