I went to unhook a boat once from the truck on my parents ramp at their lake house. Something inside me told me not unhook the chains first. I didn’t listen to that little voice and unhooked the chains first. Started jacking it up and hopped on the back bumper to release the trailer. Trailer popped off and started rolling down the ramp as I forgot to put stops behind the tires. Somehow it missed the massive gumball tree at the end of their ramp. My boat was floating but my trailer was not. Swam out to my boat climbed in and drove my boat back up the ramp attached the trailer and somehow managed to get stops behind it. I always triple check for stops now
Just in the past month, my hunting padna blew a tire in one state and rode it on the rim into the next state where we stopped for lunch.
Last trip he “modified” the shallow water drive on his outboard with a floating log. “It still works, it’s just different”
He called me otw home from that same trip to tell me he bout threw the boat off the trailer onto the interstate.
If anybody is wondering, it’s a Duracraft/Yamaha combo. The abuse I’ve seen this boat/motor take is HOF worthy, just in the past two years.
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Mine has seen the concrete a few times. Once in my own driveway, one time due to ice, and the last was my wife’s fault.
I lifted it and welded the bottom a few years ago and it’s still going stronger than ever. If you’re gonna be dumb you’ve gotta be tough.
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I dropped a 14' War Eagle with a blind on it off the trailer and onto the pavement back in highschool...and I didn't realize it for about 20 miles. Pulled off the dirt road onto the highway, made it about 100 yards and went across a bridge. It was after dark and I didn't get to a street light for a while. When I looked up and there was no boat there, I about shit my pants. All I could think of was someone being piled up and dead because of my boat. I turned around and hauled ass back to whence I came and found a Tahoe sitting behind it with it's flashers on. They saw me pull up with an empty boat trailer and proceeded to also hauled ass.
I didn't have a flat strap on the winch, just a yellow piece of rope tied to the hook. Rope came untied somehow and the boat slid off the trailer when I hit the bumps on that bridge.
Man and other animals were first vegetarians; then Noah and his sons were given permission to eat meat: “every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you” Genesis 9:3
"A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him." Aldo Leopold
Had a friend lose his entire boat/trailer one morning after a heavy night of drinking. In process of it coming off the hitch and going into the ditch, and him trying to figure out how to get it out, a trooper pulled up.
Needless to say, a rollback took everything but him to the impound lot.
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I watched a boat and trailer roll about 50 yards into an Arkansas rice field about 23 years ago (that makes me feel extremely old). The people we were hunting with didn't put on the safety chains, and failed to push the latch on the trailer down. Went through an S curve, the truck curved, the boat and trailer went straight.
I dumped Bogster's boat off the trailer one time.
Foot slipped off the clutch (I'll blame it on mud/waders) but yea... That happened.
Does the aforementioned vessel belong to a fellow whose initials are BD? Cause I was pulled over pissing in 7 mile one evening a couple weeks ago while scouting and a boat that looked like that one came around the bend and a crazy looking fellow pulled over and said hey man how the hell have you been? Got a dip I can get off of ya?
After we took off, the guys with me said did you know him and I said yep, now don't ask any more questions!
I thought the initials were BFD??
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