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Any suggestions on how to get an X off the trailer in the backyard.

Drop the bow as low as the jack allows. Block up under the stern, on both sides, preferably with each side tied to the other so they can't spread, then jack up the tongue jack again. Block under the hull just aft of the mid bunk, and lower the jack a bit. Slide the trailer as far forward as you can. Block up behind the rear bunk, and use the tongue jack again to raise the boat off the front blocks, and shim under the new blocks. Slip the trailer out, but perhaps leave the rear bunks under the bow, and again block and jack to get some support under the bow.

Having once stripped out gears in the tongue jack, I'd suggest making sure the jack is well greased before asking it to do this heavy lifting. That should help prevent what happened to me.

I used a floor jack

Don T wrote:I used a floor jack

That was going to be my first suggestion.

Do this on a calm forecast depending on how well you block it up. The Macs have a lot of windage and can blow over on blocks easily.

korn_kid_12 wrote:Any suggestions on how to get an X off the trailer in the backyard.

this what I did

That's one way to do it. I wish you hadn't shown me that. Now I want one...

I tried to use My Bobcat with forklift attachment to raise Dauntless during the 2nd axle install.....but the forks were too short to hold the boat far enough away from the Bobcat... Oh well The job got done anyway . Ron. Dauntless .

I tried the jack-and-block method, but what I was after was the centerboard and I couldn't get the hull high enough for the centerboard to swing down. So I did something similar to Ponaldpe. I hired a wrecker to lift the boat in slings while I re-attached the control line to the centerboard. $100.

--jf

Ponaldpe wrote:

korn_kid_12 wrote:Any suggestions on how to get an X off the trailer in the backyard.

this what I did

I used to own one of these. A very early, if not the earliest, Pittman HydraLift. Mine had a telescopic boom (manually - not an easy thing to do), so the lift radius could be made almost twice as long. Manual outriggers (not sure I could even shove them back up at my age), but it had power swing, so that was something. Not sure it could lift an X though, at the longest boom setting at least. Some of the stuff I used to get into. Yikes.

Build a lift.. Mine cost about $300 and comes in handy a lot

81venture wrote:Build a lift.. Mine cost about $300 and comes in handy a lot

Nice and cost a lot less than what I have.

Ponaldpe wrote:

korn_kid_12 wrote:Any suggestions on how to get an X off the trailer in the backyard.

this what I did

Well done! I think I am going to build a pair of wood bunks, jack the back of the trailer up and set it on it, then slowly and carefully repeat with the front several times until its clear of the trailer.
I have used a cherry picker to take the Skis off their trailer, but any more I just roll the dollies I made for them out of PVC right up to the back of the trailer and pull them off the trailer by hand. Wish it was half that easy with the X.

How about that bent mess???