Trailer info

[tsubaki]

Welcome to the site!

If you don't have the slider brackets I'd be more inclined to find a different trailer, cost being the factor. Obviously the frame is rebuildable but to what cost extent.

I am using the original frame, axle and hubs on my "75. Most everything else has been replaced at least a couple of times.
The single axle is doable IF properly balanced and most any 1/2 ton pickup can safely handle towing the short distance you are doing. Presently I've not trailered mine over 10 miles to the farthest ramp.
If you were regularly trailering say more than 30 miles one way, I'd be really concerned and want a dual axle setup.

A dual axle setup may also improve your launching height problem by the ability to use smaller tires.
phat's suggestion of a torsion type axle is worth considering.

These are probably the only usable photos of mine.

[tsubaki]

Closer picture of slider bracket and fender extension.

[Destroyer]

Dang Tsubaki... looking at those pics... Mine never came with a motorcycle.... I guess you have a later model with better appointments. I'm jealous

[tsubaki]

Those were a couple of bicycles and a weeks worth of stuff for an island deer hunting trip.

[phatdaddy]

If i'm reading right, you have a donor trailer you can get running gear from. If so, your good to go. Just make sure that its all rated to carry the load.

Also you don't say if its a bunk or roller. The one you have pulls great and carry load great, just hard to load and unload. Might look into why that is. If its a bunk and your used to roller, just put more of it in the water.

With the mobile home stuff, it's probably not galvanized, so it won't last long in the salt anyway. Most of the ones i've seen, they had to cut a section out of the axle to shorten it and that starts rusting pretty fast.

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by tsubaki

Welcome to the site!

If you don't have the slider brackets I'd be more inclined to find a different trailer, cost being the factor. Obviously the frame is rebuildable but to what cost extent.

I am using the original frame, axle and hubs on my "75. Most everything else has been replaced at least a couple of times.
The single axle is doable IF properly balanced and most any 1/2 ton pickup can safely handle towing the short distance you are doing. Presently I've not trailered mine over 10 miles to the farthest ramp.
If you were regularly trailering say more than 30 miles one way, I'd be really concerned and want a dual axle setup.

A dual axle setup may also improve your launching height problem by the ability to use smaller tires.
phat's suggestion of a torsion type axle is worth considering.

These are probably the only usable photos of mine.

Cool pics. Is that where you put in?

[tsubaki]

The first two are within 15' of where I keep the V under a shelter which is about 50' from the corner of our house.
We have about 2 hours twice a day of usable tide to put boats in or take them out.
I was raised in that ditch till I was 8 years old then I moved back to it when I was 20 years old.

[chart]

hunting ossabaw, wassaw or some were else.

[tsubaki]

Originally Posted by chart

hunting ossabaw, wassaw or some were else.

That was one of the trips to Wassaw.

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by tsubaki

The first two are within 15' of where I keep the V under a shelter which is about 50' from the corner of our house.
We have about 2 hours twice a day of usable tide to put boats in or take them out.
I was raised in that ditch till I was 8 years old then I moved back to it when I was 20 years old.

Beautiful.