85diplomat
10-29-2003, 10:11 PM
Left my house on my way to N.H. to do some fishing. Got 8/10ths of a mile from my house, turned on to the main street, and Bamm!!!! I see one of my tires on the trailer rolling up the yard beside me!! Seconds later I see the other chase it !I'm sitting in the middle of the road with my boat on the ground and no wheels!!
I haul it off the street dragging the trailer. I have to send one of my passengers back with my truck to get my floor jack! We then rehook up the trailer and jack up the middle of the back of the trailer and roll it on the jack into a drycleaner's parking lot and back it into a spot. It is 2:00. I run down to our local boat dealer and try to buy a new axle. He needs 12 different measurements and the gross weight of the boat to get me the right one. He tells me to get the info and he might be able to help. It's 3:00 and he closes at 4:00.
After some negotiation with the wife I purchase a new trailer and off I go. Following the advice of one of the salesmen at the dealers I remove the crank on the old trailer, and disconnect the new one from the truck. At this point we had drawn a crowd. We wedged the new trailer over the old one and attached the crank strap. We cranked the new trailer under the boat over the old one. This only took 15 min. We then swapped plates( slightly illegal) and pulled the boat back to the house. We only had to get rid of the old trailer and wereas I was still sweating from spending $1300 on a new trailer I refused to call a tow truck. So we attached it to the tow hitch and walked it home 8/10ths of a mile on the jack!!! We then repacked everything and left for our trip. (7:00)
After that and spending another 2 hrs tweaking the trailer at the ramp the next day we still didnt catch any fish! Wouldn't you have thought I had earned that if just for the perseverance!!!
Well the bright side is not one scratch on the boat.
17' checkmate "Cheap Thrills"
I haul it off the street dragging the trailer. I have to send one of my passengers back with my truck to get my floor jack! We then rehook up the trailer and jack up the middle of the back of the trailer and roll it on the jack into a drycleaner's parking lot and back it into a spot. It is 2:00. I run down to our local boat dealer and try to buy a new axle. He needs 12 different measurements and the gross weight of the boat to get me the right one. He tells me to get the info and he might be able to help. It's 3:00 and he closes at 4:00.
After some negotiation with the wife I purchase a new trailer and off I go. Following the advice of one of the salesmen at the dealers I remove the crank on the old trailer, and disconnect the new one from the truck. At this point we had drawn a crowd. We wedged the new trailer over the old one and attached the crank strap. We cranked the new trailer under the boat over the old one. This only took 15 min. We then swapped plates( slightly illegal) and pulled the boat back to the house. We only had to get rid of the old trailer and wereas I was still sweating from spending $1300 on a new trailer I refused to call a tow truck. So we attached it to the tow hitch and walked it home 8/10ths of a mile on the jack!!! We then repacked everything and left for our trip. (7:00)
After that and spending another 2 hrs tweaking the trailer at the ramp the next day we still didnt catch any fish! Wouldn't you have thought I had earned that if just for the perseverance!!!
Well the bright side is not one scratch on the boat.
17' checkmate "Cheap Thrills"