HEY TRAILER GUYS... - Page 2

Skools Out · #11 11-09-2005, 04:26 PM

noticed in the pic it has bearing buddy's just take a grease gun and fill them before you leave for home.

I guess Pipe was speaking of the crazy guys as being like me running 75 and 80 with a boat. Hey if your tow truck can pull it and stop it, it doesn't matter. You see 80,000 lb road tractors running 85 and 90 out there lol. :P

C YENSEN · #12 11-09-2005, 04:35 PM

YEAH, BUT TRACTOR TRAILERS HAVE BRAKES. ;)

Pipe_Dream · #13 11-09-2005, 05:45 PM

Hey, we all no doubt differ on this. Let's just say when you're doing 85 pulling a boat I don't want to be in front of you, because I know I can stop faster than you. I'm usually the ol' fart doing only 5 mph over the limit in the right lane . . . and I keep a safe distance. I've seen too much . . . carnage.

#14 11-09-2005, 05:50 PM

Just don't be that genius who takes a perfectly good boat airborne and out of the gene pool.

Blue_Runner · #15 11-09-2005, 06:03 PM

What's the old saying, "Better Safe than Sorry" ;D Not a bad saying to live by IMO.

greateastern · #16 11-09-2005, 07:54 PM

If your buying this boat, take a look at mine same year with out the hard top it is already in New York on a 2001 double axle trailer with brakes and power wench
Let's make a deal

Great Eastern Mech. ;)

captbent · #17 11-09-2005, 09:46 PM

i have a single axle trailer with 14 in tires on it and i am going to put new ones on do you think going to 15s would be better, i do what about you guys, i have to make a 200 mile trip to RI just one way to my house there and from there on only 1/4 mile from house to ramp for the rest of its life,

phester · #18 11-09-2005, 10:09 PM

as long as you've got enough room under the fenders,you may as well

macojoe · #19 11-09-2005, 10:49 PM

15 will work, but depending how your trailer is set up its getting pretty high, and you will need more water to launch, and you will get more air under it while trailing.

I went with 14" and I got trailer tires rated for the weight. More $$ then car tires but worth it to me, less flats, and blow outs also as they are more plys of rubber.

phatdaddy · #20 11-09-2005, 11:04 PM

In Florida, any thing that weighs more than 1500 lbs is supposed to have brakes. The dealers get away with selling no brakes because they sell the trailer seperate and with out the boat. I have an aluminum tandem with no brakes. Ninety per cent of my towing is 2 miles or less. I tow to the keys every two years (750 miles oneway) and never had a problem. This year coming back traffic stalled in the right lane as I was approaching and had to stop quick. I managed to stop, but it was very very scary. The next time we go south, I will have brakes..