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Old 11-04-2015, 05:27 PM   #1
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boat hauling in the wild. No Travellift No Problem

I am storing my boat on the hard for he winter in a new place this winter, inside. I can do that a lot cheaper than I paid last year, outside under shrinkwrap. What's not to like? They don't have a travel lift or a crane. They did a darn good job with minimal equipment. I was very satisfied afterward.
What ways do the rest use when a travellift is not an option. In my case the guy uses a hydraulic trailer and a fairly big wheel loader. Pulls up a fairly steep ramp, and pulls about 400 yards, pushes up a a gravel hill and across bumpy railroad tracks, All went really good. I missed the actual pull from the water but took a short video of the move.
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Old 11-04-2015, 07:42 PM   #2
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Looks just about the same as our yard's setup:
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Old 11-04-2015, 07:46 PM   #3
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Not that uncommon. There's a 30,000 ft building in the neighborhood that uses the city ramp to fill it. I used to keep my 41express there, no issues. The owner paid the town to raise all the utilities lines between the ramp and his building.
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Old 11-04-2015, 07:52 PM   #4
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Where I store my boats is about 1/2 a mile inland. The yard has a Brownell hydraulic trailer pulled by a normal diesel truck (tractor). Hauling the boat and transporting it over the road to the storage building takes about 20 minutes. The current driver prefers that I come along side at the ramp then we walk the boat onto the trailer. Before I stored at that yard I stored at home and the driver had me motor onto the trailer then towed me to my house (about 5 miles). The over the road transport is at the speed limit. Brownell trailers are air ride.
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OK Guy's now I'm really confused, Did you get to see the video? Apparently you did. All I can see is a blank attachment and when I tried to edit it to fix, all I got was a video 'being processed message'. I know I am tech challenged, but I'm trying to learn.
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Old 11-04-2015, 08:36 PM   #6
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ID:	46257same method. Different location. Different boat.
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Old 11-04-2015, 09:10 PM   #7
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Your video worked fine. One of our local yards has a self=propelled hydraulic trailer. They don't use it for hauling just for moving boats in the yard. they have three travel lifts for hauling.
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