Motorised mover for trailer

[Simon666]

I've just bought one of these...

MOTORISED JOCKEY WHEEL - Solid Wheel 12v Electric Caravan Trailer Mover 12 Volt | eBay

Not tried it yet, but ill let you know the outcome and post a YouTube vid when I do.

[Ovey]

Cool, I've seen them but am a bit wary of taking them into a salt water environment - not necessarily dunking them but it'd be near to the water & probably getting splashed most of the weekend.


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[ashbypower]

You've got a winch on the front of the trailer, can you not utilise that ??

[Ovey]

I currently use the winch and bow line to hold the front of the boat on the trailer (plus two heavy duty strops on the transom) so would lose (albeit briefly on the drive) the redundancy of two securing methods at the front. However it's worth investigating.

I'd need to run the winch strap down & under the trailer (possibly chafing on the metalwork?) then need to add an anchor point at the garage end of the drive to attach it. Its a new trailer so I'd also need to investigate how long the strap is - but that's easy.


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[Simon666]

Originally Posted by Ovey

Cool, I've seen them but am a bit wary of taking them into a salt water environment - not necessarily dunking them but it'd be near to the water & probably getting splashed most of the weekend.


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Yeah me too. Its only going to be used at home to get the boat in and out of its tight parking space.
It got a key locking quick release type system so I can remove it in seconds.
Im going to leave the current jockey wheel on and drill 2 new holes to fit the motorised one on the other side to be used when launching/recovering.
Im going to test it on Friday so fingers crossed.

[Ovey]

Ah right, sounds a good idea. I'd be interested to hear how you get on.


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[Simon666]

Originally Posted by Ovey

Ah right, sounds a good idea. I'd be interested to hear how you get on.


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Right tested out my new motorised jockey wheel last weekend.

Its packs a punch and has loads of power, but unfortunately for me it just cant get enough grip on the hard rolled gravel i keep the boat on.
There is a slight incline and the wheel just digs a hole when trying to back the trailer up the slope.
It can move the 1.5 ton boat & trailer fine on the flat bits, just not up the slope.

I'm sure if it were concrete or tarmac it would have no problem.

I've come up with a rope and pulley system now so i'm going to offer the unit up for sale if anyone is interested.

[mick]

Put some strips of plywood down or some thick rubber matting over the gravel

[gotchiguy]

Originally Posted by gotchiguy

There was a thread on here recently about someone who had built a tracked trailer mover. Have a look through, it was really recent, last couple of weeks I think

Here we go, this is what I was thinking of! Sorry it's over the otherside...

Still a neat thing though, much more usable than a mr shifta

http://www.boatmad.com/forum/showpos...&postcount=112

[mick]

Seen one somewhere but can't remember where it's good idea but it's the variable nose weight you get with a boat or at least I do

[stigoftd]

At our old house we had an inclined drive which backed on to a turning area .
so didnt want the o/b - prop being the first place of contact with the local grannies turning and wanted to park her bow in which also meant that any rain water would go out through the transom drain the rather then fill up the bow .

I braught a 12v remote operated winch which i replaced the hand winch on the trailer to also make it easier to launch - retrieve single handed on the slip and used the block on the winch post of the trailer so i could pull the trailer in to the drive and also still use for recovering the boat once it was un-cliped .

I made a simple eye bolt and fixed it through the garage wall with a steel plate to spread the load

it made everything so simple as often i was doing it all single handed

[Trimix]

That is a fantastic bit of kit

I fancy building one of those.