Anyone use a garden tractor to move their boat around?

[Waxy]

A hitch on the front of your tow vehicle works amazingly well for getting trailers in and out of tight spaces. It's far more maneuverable and you can see everything much better.

The ultimate way to move trailers around is a skid steer, there's pretty much nothing you can't do with them and hooking/unhooking from the trailer is so simple.

Waxy

[sunriseresort]

I have a Ranger 619FS on order to give an idea of weight... 3500lbs plus gear? The driveway is barely 2 car widths wide and with the reverse angle needed I can't picture a front mount on the truck working... plus not appealing to a 2015 Ram...lol. I don't have much of a slope so that's a plus. Really I can get the boat about half way into the garage, it just has to be perfect angle in order for garage door to close so the tractor is appealing from that standpoint. I even looked at airplane movers called "towbot" $6000 is crazy though.

Good problems to have I guess... love suburbia.

Heres in a pic to kind of see what I'm dealing with

[REW]

Big,
Go with the front trailer hitch for your truck to move your boat:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fron...l%3B1000%3B657

Bring the boat home, stop when away from the driveway, and unhook from the truck.
Remove the receiver from the rear of the truck and move to the front of the truck.

Reconnect the boat to the front hitch and park the boat in the garage.

Very simple, very easy, and the hitch is effectively out of sight when the receiver does not have a tow bar in the receiver.

p.s.
Since the front receiver is likely much lower than the rear hitch, you might want to pick up a different tow bar and ball height for the front hitch, compared to the tow bar for the rear hitch.

Be safe

[REW]

Or:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Trailer-Move...b3db4b&vxp=mtr

http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/tls/4948130755.html

http://panamacity.craigslist.org/for/4916218991.html

http://parkit360.ca/shop/p360s-2500lbs-1133kgs

[jeffbilodeau]

How about this....much more affordable. There are you tube clips available. http://trailervalet.com/shop/

[karpbuster]

Yes just not the lund ... yet.

[bobk]

Yep, a tractor will do the job just fine. I have been doing it for several years. Much easier than using my truck.

[Rainylake dreaming]

Been pulling my boats from back garage to front driveway with a John Deere 420 for over 20 years without a problem.

[Cougar]

Ditto here. John Deere 2305 3 pt. Don't even bother with a ball, have the John Deere Imatch on the 3 pt so just lower 3 pt, back up under tongue, raise and away I go. I pull double behind 5 wheel so when I get home, I stop on road, drop boat, kid runs in garage and gets tractor to get boat off street while I back camper in. Sweet!!

[Cougar]