Never herd of them.
Anyone use these on their trailer. Supposed to make loading and unloading easier.
Never herd of them.
Dave
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Although I never unhook my boat until I'm down the ramp and in the water, the fear of me one day either unhooking early or not hooking and pulling out and having the boat slide off would keep me from using these. I heard/saw this happen last summer at the ramp, a boat slid off as the guy backed it down the ramp!....my .02
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I own a set and I love them.It makes loading and unloading so much easier.When I get to the ramp you can push the boat off the trailer with one hand very easy. Don't even have to put the trailer in the water very far.
Looks like I'll be getting some of these for my trailer when I redo it
My experience with a set of similar "slides" was that it is too easy to slide. Backing down a ramp or even after reaching the bowstop while loading, by the time I get to the front to hook the strap to the bow eye, the boat slid back off. Took mine off and threw them away.
It was very difficult to get my boat cinched up tight especially on shallow ramps. I had to leave the boat in gear to help push it tight against the bow eye while I was up front trying to winch it up.
I added a set of E-Z Slide Trailer Pads http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/st...004000_200-4-6 to my bunks and they have helped tremendously. Not only dose it make it easier to launch and load but it now centers its self were before if I didn't get it centered it stayed off center on the trailer. The part description notes they are not recommended for fiberglass boats weighing over 1500 lbs. or riveted metal boats. My boat is a Lund so I may have to make sure the sump pump is working if these pads mess up the rivets on my boat.
With the pads I don't unhook the boat until at the waters edge and I don't use as much umph from the moter when loading the boat on the trailer. I still leave the boat in gear when I go forward to hook it up but now its just to keep it from sliding backward where as before I needed the moter to help push the boat on the bunks. As of now I really like them and reccommend them.
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Anyone subject to a memory loss (brain f@*t) better stay away from them. To many boats get dumped backing out of driveways, down boat ramps, pulling out of boat ramps. They are wonderful and work well but OUR mind has bad periods and that's what gives them a bad rap. Kinda like guns, it's the idiot using them not the glides OR the guns. Ferdi aka Fred