Ouch - not mine

[sasto]

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I'm going to stay out of what should, or should have not happened. Glad nobody got hurt. I am almost sure the operator learned a lesson. Sometimes we become secure in the daily things we do. Sometimes we take chances when we know better. I made the mistake in towing a 9 1/2 foot boat from NJ to FL. No permits, no oversize load sign. Never, never again, although we made it safely.

 

[dingbat]

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++++1 Agreed.

Gotta laugh at this one.

The boat came off the trailer sideways. Ever try to push a boat off a "self-centering" roller trailer sideways? You would have to lift the boat 20-24" to get it out of the "cradle" before you could move it sideways. What does the bunk buy ya, an inch or two?:lol:

 

[bruceb58]

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++++1 Agreed.

Gotta laugh at this one.

My "agreed" was actually about using pledge on the bunks! I take it you don't agree with that? :laugh:

What does the bunk buy ya, an inch or two?:lol:

I used to own a boat on a roller trailer. Besides the increase in height(Way more than an inch or two)the flex of the roller arms allowed the boat to sway more. Our boat once got into a major swaying condition once and actually bent one of the roller arms. We got lucky. No more roller trailers after that experience.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Not sure why anyone would think it would have stayed on a bunk trailer. I've posted this before: it reminds me of an incident about 40 years ago when a trucker decided a D8 Cat with dozer didn't need to be chained down for a short trip.

OMG!!!! If you are talking about an incident at Ft Belvoir VA in 1976 .......you and I need to talk!! I had that happen on post right in the middle of a 4 way intersection!

 

[dingbat]

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I used to own a boat on a roller trailer. Besides the increase in height(Way more than an inch or two)the flex of the roller arms allowed the boat to sway more. Our boat once got into a major swaying condition once and actually bent one of the roller arms. We got lucky. No more roller trailers after that experience.

Same here except bunks..... O dark thirty Sunday morning. Dropped the boat in the water and went fishing. Came back o dark thirty Sunday night. Back trailer in the water and the bunk pops off and floats away. Stuck Sunday night in the middle of no-where looking for a 2 x 6. Tried to bribe a 24 hr. grocery store clerk into letting us "barrow" a 2 x 6 off a picnic table they had out front for sale. Ended up driving 15 miles up the road to the State Park and prying a board off one of the picnic tables. I've not owned a bunk trailer since.:lol:

 

[bruceb58]

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Back trailer in the water and the bunk pops off and floats away.

Sounds like someone was a little lax in their trailer maintenance! Bunks don't last forever nor do rollers! Ever replace a roller?

 

[GA_Boater]

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Sounds like someone was a little lax in their trailer maintenance! Bunks don't last forever nor do rollers! Ever replace a roller?

Only when they float away. :laugh:

 

[dingbat]

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Sounds like someone was a little lax in their trailer maintenance! Bunks don't last forever nor do rollers! Ever replace a roller?

To this day we have no idea what happened. It wasn't my boat and one of the first couple of times the owners had it out. For all we know someone could have been someone playing a joke. Pulling hitch pins is a popular pastime.

Replaced all 32 of my rollers a couple of years back. Had the soft rubber ones that breakdown and leave streaks. Changed them out for poly

 

[Tnstratofam]

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Hopefully as we laugh at the misfortune this obviously "careful driver":facepalm: experienced, this incident will act as a reminder to all experienced boaters to check there trailers and tie down methods before there next outing. For all us newbies we should pay close attention to how quickly things can come undone under way. That 10 minute trip to the launch or the local marina without straps can be an hour long tie up for traffic and an expensive mess for you.

Hope he doesn't work for Uship cause I just recommend them to a fellow Iboater the other day.

 

[AChotrod]

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Same here except bunks..... O dark thirty Sunday morning. Dropped the boat in the water and went fishing. Came back o dark thirty Sunday night. Back trailer in the water and the bunk pops off and floats away. Stuck Sunday night in the middle of no-where looking for a 2 x 6. Tried to bribe a 24 hr. grocery store clerk into letting us "barrow" a 2 x 6 off a picnic table they had out front for sale. Ended up driving 15 miles up the road to the State Park and prying a board off one of the picnic tables. I've not owned a bunk trailer since.:lol:

I have a roller trailer and a bunk trailer. Same thing happened to my bunk trailer the first time I put the boat in water. Bunk popped off and started to float away. Lucky I caught it and had some duct tape with me. Never had a problem with the roller.

 

[bassman284]

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OMG!!!! If you are talking about an incident at Ft Belvoir VA in 1976 .......you and I need to talk!! I had that happen on post right in the middle of a 4 way intersection!

Ha, sounds interesting. No, this was in Muscatine, IA about 1972 or so. I went to work for this road construction company in 1974 and when they put me pulling the lowboy, the guy who trained told me this story to emphasize the need to ALWAYS chain equipment down securely.

They needed to move the Cat about a mile down the road so he drove it on the lowboy and decided not to bother with the chains for such a short trip. There was a left hand curve in the road with a couple of bumps in it and next thing he knew, the right track of the D8 was hanging off the side of the lowboy. They had to call in a crane to slide it back on.

Another story - a Chrysler engineer told me about one time in the 90s when he was in the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Traffic came to a halt and he went up to find a flatbed sitting there and a 15,000 lb injection mold sitting in the middle of the road. Presumably another tie down "malfunction".