[garbubba]

Used to build & maintain launches. It's powering on to the trailer that causes the wash out at the end of the ramp. Your method is the trick for sure.

My favorite story about this goes back many years. A friend & I were cast netting at a local launch, a guy comes in & backs below the end (it's marked on the dock) We tell him we'll help him but he just keeps pulling on it with his old ford truck. Finally he get's pissed & walks off! We weren't sure what was happening until he came back in a semi truck from the local seafood processor. He hooks it to the front of the Ford, & boom!, tore the rear bumper right off the pickup! Couldn't help but laugh.