[Rhodes22-list] Michael W.s Bent and Rusty Tongue

[Tootle]

Michael:

Too hell with the fancy Caribbean vacation.  Get a good trailer and go to
yard with a lift.  Change out and be done with it.  Maybe even give them the
junker.  Hope that they will take the junker.  Give them a few extra bucks
to take the junker.  It is too dangerous to try to change out without a lift
even though it has been done.

Another option is to get four large foam blocks like they use to hold up
docks and attach to boat and trailer.  Put the whole kit and kabodle into
the water and sail away from ramp and into deep water and cut trailer loose. 
Make it a fish attractor.  Do the fishermen in your area a favor.  

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
Making right choices in gray areas is difficult.  To be aware of the dilemma
is not enough.   There needs to be a moral sensitivity which remembers to
ask the right questions at the right time.  To know what is good is not
enough.  There is a difference between waking up and getting up. There must
be specific decision for the right.  To be sensitive and aware is good.  To
make proper decisions is better.  The way of victory is to maintain a moral
stamina which continues.   Paraphrase of Bryan Crenshaw


quote author="Tootle">
Mike:

I think that when under load all extensions bend.  Maybe your bending is
excessive?  

Go buy a piece of I beam long enough to reach from trailer hitch to
somewhere back on trailer that allows for physical attachment to main
trailer chassis.  Get about four large U-bolts with cross pieces and bolt
the whole thing to extended extension and actual trailer chassis.  Just like
you were sistering a plank supporting a house?  I guess you could even use a
wood 4 x 4 about 12 feet long and make it work for the occasion.  But that
might be too thick to get down a ramp.

Locate a steep ramp that does not require extension.  When lake level is up
here at Hartwell there are many that you do not need extensions on.

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
“Stainless steel’s resistance to corrosion relies on exposure to oxygen in
the air or water.  When you tape a stainless steel turnbuckle or rigging
terminal, you deprive it of oxygen, and the metal is more prone to
corrosion.”  Bill Seifert







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