Classic AquaSport
Aquasport Mechanicals - things that need a wrench, screwdriver or multimeter => Trailers => Topic started by: bondobill on August 16, 2013, 04:38:48 PM
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Thought I would share this with you all, it's kinda embarrassing but WTH.
When I unhook the trailer from the pickup I use a 3 ton aluminum floor jack instead of the jack on the trailer. Makes it a whole lot easier hooking back up cause I can move the tongue some from side to side with the floor jack .
While a couple weeks ago I jumped in the boat to tinker with some stuff......boats on the trailer in my shop..... I notice the boat seems to be swaying some, either that or I shouldn't of had that 3rd beer.
All of a sudden the floor jack kicks out from under the tongue of the trailer....of course I had it lifted all the way up on the jack..... made a hell of a bang when we hit the concrete. :shock:
Was loud enough that Barb came running out of the house to see if I was all right.
Luckily I had the overhead door up cause the trailer shot forward damn near 2 feet.
Needless to say I am thinking WTF !!!
While I access the damage, there is pretty good scrape to the hull where the floor jack hit it, but it is only cosmetic..nothing a little bondo and paint won't take care of.
While this has never happened before so I just figure it was a freak thing, right.
While stupid me jacks the trailer up again with the floor jack, hook up to the pickup and back her back in the shop.
I grab the floor jack to take the trailer off the receiver...the trailer no sooner clears the ball on the receiver and "KER BANG" :shock: the damn floor jack kicks out again,trailer hits the deck and slides forward a couple feet.
No damage to the pickup or boat this time, but my nerves are getting a little frayed..thank God I have about 4' of tongue between the boat and pickup.
While I am pissed now, I am cussing and swearing wondering what the heck is going on.
After the second time I finally figured I better step back and try to figure out why this happened.
Didn't take long :oops: I walked around the back of the trailer and about 2 feet behind the rear wheel of the trailer was a 3' long section of 4x8 right where I had put it 2 weeks earlier.
I had moved my table saw behind where I park the boat and had put down the 4x8 to stop me from backing into the table with the boat.
Morale of the story :scratch: ....about the only thing I can come up with is....watch your beer intake when parking the boat.
Bill
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Bill, if it was a few years ago, I'd say Oly kicked up the notch a bit in their beer... :wink:
Ironically, the suburb of Chicago I grew up in? Olympia Fields. Guess I was predestined... :cheers:
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Bill, when I kept my 200XF in my workshop I would use the floor jack now and then to lift the boat.... it was just faster. I found out real quick that you had to chock the wheels before hand... otherwise that thing would roll than start to tilt.
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Don't feel bad bud! One night I was going flounder gigging....hauled the jon boat out of the driveway....towing the battery charger and 50 feet of power cord down the street :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Don't feel bad bud! One night I was going flounder gigging....hauled the jon boat out of the driveway....towing the battery charger and 50 feet of power cord down the street :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:lol:
I would guess that would be called a offboard charger. :mrgreen:
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Scotty, that was in place of the cans behind the car after your wedding! Don't you remember? Ask Carolyn... :wink:
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:mrgreen: :thumright: :thumright: