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Offline fishfinder401

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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2011, 02:03:38 pm »
i would put it on the ground except we would never get it back on, its only 23 ft, but it weights  2 tons dry
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2011, 02:14:14 pm »
You can wench it back on the trailer. I have done it with bigger boats than yours....and by myself.  Disconect the trailor from the vehicle and attach the wench cable to the bow eye of the boat. If your trailer breaks in the middle release the latch before you start cranking it on. The trailer will  go under the boat instead of the boat coming up on the trailer.
  To take the boat off the trailer back up to a tree and tie a rope from the ski eye on one side, around the tree and to the other ski eye then drive the trailor from under the boat. Depending on how deep your boat is you may have to add blocks on either side to keep it upright on the ground.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2011, 02:25:24 pm »
sounds like that would work, not sure how my dad would feel about doing it, but i would be up for it. by the way, why should you put the boat on the ground?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #18 on: August 25, 2011, 02:29:56 pm »
Less wind resistance! Plus a boat full of water will crush your trailer.
  If you guys have a boat mechanic you regularly use ask him to help.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2011, 06:46:14 pm »
POWER ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #20 on: September 02, 2011, 09:20:31 am »
alive and well david. seen some crazy stuff after that storm. still a lot of areas without power and im pretty damn sick of cutting trees. flood damage was the worst though. at one point i was driving up a hill and saw an area of water running through the woods, 3' deep , with white caps about 100 yrds wide. this was where a stream normally is. a lot of houses went under from the rain. vermont took the biggest hit from flood waters though. they are heros up there for doing what they did. they actually let their rivers overflow in spots behind the dams so that mass and connecticut didnt get crushed by the coming water. if they hadnt done that the connecticut and farmington rivers would of taken out towns. just under 800,000 people without power in this state alone and after day 3 it was down to 200,000. definitely not what we are used to up here. we can handle snow, but not 17 trillion gls of water that the storm dumped on us. my area got 8.5" of rain from it. the shoreline is gonna be screwed up for a while. funny thing is rick trojanowski live south of me in long island. he had minimal damage. our hills just couldnt take the rain. we had a tornadoe in june that came with microbursts and i think if it hadnt been for that storm cleaning the woods it would of been a lot worse for the trees.
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #21 on: September 02, 2011, 09:41:43 am »
Glad to hear you are doing OK jamie,been thinking about you guys up north. It is usually us that get all that crap. :) We have kind of got use to it. :)
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2011, 11:07:28 am »
Good to hear from you Jamie. Glad all is well with you.
Cut trees for a week after the tornadoes came through Alabama in April. :P

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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #23 on: September 02, 2011, 01:22:22 pm »
 Glad you made it through all that rain. We're kinda used to them down here. I'm glad you guys didn't get the 150 MPH winds  with it.
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #24 on: September 02, 2011, 03:49:44 pm »
i luckily just finished cutting some trees, luckily we wanted to take them down anyway ;D, but it nothing compared to what jamie saw, one good thing though, is that my neighbor has some black locusts down and he said if i make him a bow i can take all the wood i want ;D, some part look pretty good
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #25 on: September 02, 2011, 09:08:25 pm »
 I'm guessing yourboat came through okay? ;D
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Re: hurricane Irene
« Reply #26 on: September 02, 2011, 09:27:18 pm »
yep, almost hit by a cherry branch ;)
warbows and fishing, what else is there to do?
modern technology only takes you so far, remove electricity and then what