Think your immune? your not.

[quickonstep]

Immune to having something bad go wrong while your boating... all this saftey talk latley, has everyone on edge.. checking things, double checking things, making sure everything is top notch.

Tonight as i was pulling the hydrostream outta the water, my fiancee in the boat (yea i know bad habit) i get the boat just outta the water and i hear and feel a huge BOOMING sound... i thought the boat had fallen off the trailer.. well i go back and look... and well the coupler had come off the ball (17/8ths coupler and same for the ball) and stopped by the saftey chains. talk about damn near having a heart attack... after i jumpped out (almost instictively) i made sure she was ok, and then realized what had happened... iono if i had forgotten to put the lock down, or if it had just popped off, but it goes to show ya, CHECK EVERYTHING.

This definatly woke me up... im just glad it was somthing essentially small as this and not somthing more disasterous..


Jesse

[delawarerick]

I dun better than that I back of the side of ramp. Didnt hear a bang or thump sounding like a fart as the trailor with boat strapped to it sunk in the mud and it pulled the truck in to the mud up to axles. Now where the hell is bulldoggy? Rick

[MercNuts]

Could it be possible that the hitch was sat down on top of the ball instead of letting the little grip thing on the back get under it. It is always wise to feel that the piece to the rear is under the fat part of the ball instead of sitting on top of it. Some hitches will lock with the piece sitting up and it depends on how it is adjusted whether it will seem locked or not. It also sounds like maybe you do not have enough weight on the tongue of the trailer. I think it should be balanced where it always has seventyfive pounds or something close to it of tongue weight.

[Trikki1010]

So Quick,

When your heart was racing and time stood still in that split second when you realized what was happening,

What did ya think about first, the boat

or the Woman:eek: :eek: ;)

J/k Glad is all okay, Get some bigger balls:D

[delawarerick]

Boat or Woman that sounds like a poll. Now if my wife was in the boat when it sunk in the mud I might not be able to hear her carry on like she did when she realized we needed a wrecker. So I got to go with the boat. Rick:D

[quickonstep]

well, after i made sure she was ok (took about 3/4 of a second) i IMMEDIATLY looked to make sure the boat was ok.. dunno if thats ok or if thats the wrong answer, but i havent gotten smacked across the head yet (shes sitting right next to me) so i guess it was.. oh there it was lol

Jesse

[bulldogdaddy]

makes me think of the time i had 3 very cute young ladies in the old borum.
1 said is this water supposed to be here,damn plug,lol

[beer30]

It would be my wife, no matter what kind of boat, I could get another. But my wife is ONE IN A MILLION!!!!!!

[baja200merk]

my neighbor an older man experienced boater... we live in a boating comunity right on the water so because the boat ramp is burried in spite we put the boats rightin any where on the beach.

so my neighbor at the time had an old fire truck deisel, hose bed and all i bareley remember it but the thing was an international and had hudge tires and all wheel drive. so he used it to put boats in the water and because the truck was so good in the sand and after a few suv's got stuck he was putting boats in like crazy one day on the beach.. well after its all done all the trialers are in the parkin lot... guess... sqqqqqwwwwweeeeekkkkkkk!!! emergency brake didnt work too well i guess cuz there goes the truck doin a 10mph down hill roll into the bay!! as soon as he saw it moveing he walked the other way towards his house.. he comes back with a bottle of grandmanyeaya (wow no clue how to spell) and a bottle of scottch and thats it for that truck and this story...

kevin:D

[Bruster]

I always lock my trailer latch with a Master lock, even if it's sitting in the drive. Helps to serve several jobs, 1)- keeps the latch from coming un-done when you are going down the road, 2)- makes it a little more difficult for someone from steal the trailer at the boat launch and 3)- makes it much more difficult to steal the whole thing when it's in the driveway.


Originally posted by quickonstep
Immune to having something bad go wrong while your boating... all this saftey talk latley, has everyone on edge.. checking things, double checking things, making sure everything is top notch.

Tonight as i was pulling the hydrostream outta the water, my fiancee in the boat (yea i know bad habit) i get the boat just outta the water and i hear and feel a huge BOOMING sound... i thought the boat had fallen off the trailer.. well i go back and look... and well the coupler had come off the ball (17/8ths coupler and same for the ball) and stopped by the saftey chains. talk about damn near having a heart attack... after i jumpped out (almost instictively) i made sure she was ok, and then realized what had happened... iono if i had forgotten to put the lock down, or if it had just popped off, but it goes to show ya, CHECK EVERYTHING.

This definatly woke me up... im just glad it was somthing essentially small as this and not somthing more disasterous..


Jesse

[Trikki1010]

Originally posted by Bruce Hazekamp
I always lock my trailer latch with a Master lock, even if it's sitting in the drive.

I do the same thing with all trailers. I took some ole balls and torched the threads off and lock it in the tongue;)

It used to keep my FRIENDS from robbing my sled trailer all the time:D :D

OF COURSE, they're 2" BALLS:eek: :D