the launch ramp the devil made

[pudlejumper]

i have a earth launch ramp that has developed a hunchback,basically a cliff that it takes 2 trucks to pull my boat over.my question is whats the best way to fix it and prevent it from happening futher? i really dont want to cement it.<br />oh i live on a lake,not salt water.id really preffer to get it back to a beach but even if i dump a load of sand it wont stay correct?

 

[QC]

Re: the launch ramp the devil made

Do you power your boat onto the trailer? This can wash the bottom away precisely where it sounds like your "cliff" is. You could add some fill in and it might stay longer if you float the boat on . . .

 

[bigbad4cyl]

Re: the launch ramp the devil made

3 inch drain rock on bottom 3/4 drain rock on top of that

 

[swist]

Re: the launch ramp the devil made

My little town in Maine has a launch ramp that curves as it descends. Lotsa fun for backing bigger boats. Nice mud and rocks if a trailer wheel slips off one side. Oh yeah, and if you don't follow the curve out to sea you will hit rocks on one side or another.

 

[John McFarlane]

Re: the launch ramp the devil made

In Australia, at Lake Eucumbene we have a concrete ramp that has a kink just below the average water line. So you're backing it in perfectly and then a bang, and a wheel drops off the ramp onto rocks, bottoming the axle.<br /><br />Makes you wonder........

 

[tomatolord]

Re: the launch ramp the devil made

You need to fill with rock not dirt and when you put the boat in you need to stop at different places and not the same place all of the time.<br /><br />You are compacting the soil at one place<br /><br />If you want just stop at the hump and it will get compacted back down from the the weight