Backing your trailer down the ramp..??

[Stainless]

How do you do it?

Personally, I always use the side mirrors,( with and without the boat on the trailer) and I angle the mirrors down a little bit so I can see the trailer wheels/fenders....

Very rarely will I ever use the rear-view mirror, especially w/o the boat on the trailer.... This works well for me!



How about you all? Rear view mirror, Side mirrors? Maybe both?



Have a great afternoon everyone!

Side mirrors also, learned that way early in life being raised on a ranch.

I see your going to start threads you can participate in, good strategy PR.

[Eli]

Here's how they get my boat off and it weighs over 11K lbs.

Have any pics of it getting in the water? Hotboat has a good point.

[314joey]

I want to see the last pic in this sequence. I know the forks won't go down that low. No way they drop that in the water. That scares me just looking at it lol ]

I thought I had one, but I couldn't find it, I'll tell you this, your azz gets all tight when your boat is thirty feet in the air like that, but the fork lift dropped it in the water right where the last pic was.

Here's one more.

[riverrunner1984]

So the boat actually drops a significant distance into the water?

[Bobby V]

Have any pics of it getting in the water? Hotboat has a good point.

Here is a video of another boat.

[riverrunner1984]

Now it makes sense.

[314joey]

So the boat actually drops a significant distance into the water?

Yes, if you look closely where his wheels are, the wheels are right up next to a concrete head wall and the fork lift can sissor down all the way down to set the boat into the water and the boat just floats off the forks, I wish I had a better picture, I know it's different, out West everybody trailers, but down here a lot of bigger boats have boats shipped and dropped in the water like this, it's not cheap.

[HB Vic]

Here is a video of another boat.

I lead such a sheltered life. Had no idea forks could go negative like that. Pretty cool.

[Eli]

Here is a video of another boat.

Thanks Bobby! You rock!!! That was very sweet of you to find that video!


Now someone tell me WTF am I doing living in CA? I need to move to FL! That's the smarter state! I don't mind bugs and I love people who are older and wiser than me...not that I don't like younger people...now I have to see how to get licensed there without taking the bar!

[Havasu Party Bus]

The forklift will lower the boat all the way down in to the water! They do it that way in the Delta as well to put the boat in storage. Some of them boats don't ever see a trailer.