View Full Version : Moving a heavy boat trailer.
Another post asked about moving a boat and trailer around a garage, or up a driveway.
The following: is one of the methods used to move air planes around airports.
Basically this is a gas or electrically driven dolly - to rest the tail or nose wheel on.
My other post talks about the power dolly.
As you can see - these power assists, could really save your back and or body - if you have to manuver your boat up a garage ramp, or around a corner.
Take care
REW
http://www.myles-rec.com/page28/skyline.html
Those things sound pretty expensive until you're lying in a hospital after just having some vertibae fused and wondering if you can ever bend over to net a fish again. (not my case thank goodness)
You know in one of the other posts - there was a mention of using a snow blower to move a boat.
I wondered about it a bit - then I remembered that a few years ago - I needed to get an inoperative car into the garage to work on. My son suggested that we fire up the snow blower and push it into the garage.
This was in the winter - when everything is stiff, cold and hard to move. I started up the blower, put the blower in the lowest gear - came up to the bumper and easily pushed the car through the snow into the garage.
Thus - If a person was to make some sort of bracket - containing a couple of swivel tires, and a ball on the top for the hitch - and then some sort of bracket - so that a person could simply use the snow blower shell to engage the bracket - a typical self propelled snow blower would have more than enough power to move aobut any sort of two wheeled boat trailer.
Take care
REW
fishy1
03-14-2002, 06:08 AM
thats what i use a beat up worn out garden tiller tine gears went out so I stsrted pushing boats around the shop with it and I work in a welding shop had to re center the shaft to keep the weight to a min. but it works great
How about using a riding mower? If you had the right kind of dolly for the front wheel to sit in it should have the force to do the job.