[Rhodes22-list] Trailer talk

Sat Mar 12 22:07:51 EST 2011

A friend of mine added a second axel, new fenders and disk brakes. On one set of wheels. The trailer now trails with no shimmy at any speed. Shortly after the work was done we were on the road, I looked down at the speedometer and I was going 80 mph. Needless to say I slowed down to something reasonable.  With the new weight distribution I can move around the boat without the tong leaving the ground. No need to block the trailer frame up or added jacks. The fear of having a flat tire is much less. 
When backing the trailer in to retrieve the boat the wheels dropped off the concrete apron. When I tried to pull the trailer back up on the apron it would hang up on the lip of the fender which hangs below the frame about an inch.
So, I backed the boat over the trailer and wrapped the dock lines around the trailer frame just below the winches. I winched the trailer up to the boat and pull it all forward enough to get the wheels back up on the apron. I untied the trailer from the winches and drove the boat forward which was headed backward off trailer, remember, I had backed on the boat? I motored boat around so it was facing forward and retrieved it just as Stan describes on the website. All this time a power boater was  slowly loading his cigarette boat. As I drove out of the water, thinking how clever I had been, I said to him, "no one ever has to know what you have just seen". He said, " Your secret is safe with me." we waved good by and I drove off......so... I had a skid plate welded to the frame of each side of the trailer to hang just a little lower than the leading edge of the fenders. Now if it drops off the apron when I am pulling the boat out it can ride the skids to clear the fenders. 
Whew.
Rod

I have a question, please. I was reasons the GB site about the new trailer features. What is the rating of the new winch. What is the size and material of the new bunk material?
Are the bolt holes elongated to compensate for the loaded & the unloaded position deflection of the bunks?

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On Mar 12, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "Jim Connolly" <jbconnolly at comcast.net> wrote:

> I rebuilt the brakes on my Triad a few years ago.  All the parts were
> available online from Champion Trailer Parts Supply
> http://www.championtrailers.com/ .  There are likely other sources too.  If
> you are a bit handy, I bet you could even add brakes to an otherwise good
> trailer that didn't have them before.  If I recall, the surge brake drum
> hubs are a four-bolt add on at the end of each axle.  I also replaced the
> brake lines (because I stepped on one) and added a fresh water flushing kit
> (in hopes of keeping this set longer).  
> 
> If you are not that handy, do you know someone who is?
> 
> Jim Connolly 
> s/v Inisheer
> '85 recycled '03
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:16 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] My kingdom for a trailer
> 
> To all:
> 
> Wow, this post has really flown the (informational) coop.  But, there is
> wisdom 
> in the most sexually charged of  responses, even in the more mundane
> examples.  
> 
> I  Like Mary Lou's idea of having brakes installed.  I will have to
> investigate 
> that.  And the beat goes on.  Thanks.
> 
> Joe  
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Sat, March 12, 2011 12:18:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] My kingdom for a trailer
> 
> Hank, I think brakes are required for the trailer in PA.
> 
> Joe,
> You might investigate what it would cost to add brakes to a trailer 
> or to have a trailer shop replace the non-functioning brakes on a trailer.
> 
> My recollection is that it wasn't too expensive when we had it done 
> on our old trailer
> 
> Best,
> Mary Lou
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:01 AM 3/12/2011, you wrote:
>> You don't need brakes. Stopping is so overrated anyway!
>> 
>> Hank
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Joe Camp <jjcampjr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Geoff & Rummy:
>>> 
>>> (Geoff) Hey, sex is sex.  Every guy has different needs and uses for his
>>> tow
>>> balls. And the tongue: ahh, the tongue.  No more needs be said.
>>> 
>>> (Rummy)  I have been the Stan route.  He has limited used trailer stock
> at
>>> the
>>> plant, and nothing with brakes that he can guarantee will actually help
> to
>>> stop
>>> the rig.
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Geoff Farrell <geoffreylfarrell at gmail.com>
>>> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Sat, March 12, 2011 8:59:16 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] My kingdom for a trailer
>>> 
>>> I think you can have both sex *and* a trailer. After all, trailers have
>>> male
>>> and female couplers, you can get hitched to them, they have tongues
> (okay,
>>> maybe that was a little disgusting), and, if you're kinky you can use
>>> chains
>>> and tie-downs.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:34 AM, <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You might have more luck asking for sex than a trailer. Have you
> called
>>>> Stan to check on his inventory?
>>>> 
>>>> Rummy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In a message dated 3/11/2011 10:20:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>> jjcampjr at yahoo.com writes:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,  y'all:
>>>> 
>>>> Though I have only been in North Carolina  for eight months, I have
>>>> realized
>>>> the value of that all inclusive,  yet  gender free, address: "y'all."
> I
>>>> have also
>>>> realized a love of  good BBQ and a well brewed craft beer.  Pity is
> that
>>> I
>>>> will
>>>> only be  here into August, when I must, with some regret, return to my
>>> land
>>>> of
>>>> origin in near Philadelphia, where the deer and the antelope play...
>>> dead.
>>>> There, at least, I will have the comfort of great pizza and the
> original
>>>> cheesesteak as comfort. In the often quoted words of Robert Burns:
> "The
>>>> best
>>>> laid plans of mice and men..." ("To A Mouse")
>>>> 
>>>> And so, I find myself planning once again with the hope that this
> round
>>>> does not go as far astray as the one mentioned above.  When I  got my
>>>> Recycled
>>>> '87 last July, it was supposed to rest in the fresh water  of Kerr
> Lake
>>> in
>>>> NC,
>>>> where boats winter right there in the water.   Ergo (that's Greek) I
> saw
>>> no
>>>> need
>>>> for a trailer and did not buy one.   Now, as Richard III needed a
> horse,
>>> I
>>>> need a
>>>> trailer.  (It was  Richard III, right Elle?)   Does anyone know of a
>>>> Uni-matic
>>>> trailer for sale in the general vicinity of  north central or
> northeast
>>>> NC, or
>>>> perhaps an R-22 compatible trailer of another make?   (one with
> brakes) I
>>>> am
>>>> guessing that most of them are resting under their  own R-22s and have
> no
>>>> chance
>>>> to become mine. However, it never (ever)  hurts to ask. (That's been
> my
>>>> long-standing plan whenever I am  horny.)  So, I ask... not for sex,
> but
>>>> for the
>>>> trailer.   However, those offering sex may also respond.  (LOL)
>>>> 
>>>> Joe
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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