Loader Flipping a boat

[ShenandoahJoe]

OK, there's this boat. It's aluminum, about 9 feet long, in my driveway, and full of rainwater. (Long story.) It's too heavy for two muscular guys to lift by the handles on the ends. No obvious attachment points on the sides. This may be a boat question more than a tractor question, but how do I turn it over with my FEL to dump out the water without harming the boat?

 

[bcp]

Siphon hose.

Drain plug?

Bruce

 

[MasseyWV]

The simple solution would be to get a bucket and start dipping. It may not be the easiest thing to do, but it's effective and won't damage the boat. Water is very heavy, so if you hook to it with a tractor and start pulling, it's very possible that you'll only end up bending the boat in one or more places.

 

[boggen]

get a bucket or large mug / cup, and start bailing out the boat.

if you try and lift it with tractor, you are just asking to damage something.

if it was on the lake here on the farm. i generally can just drag the boat up onto the bank, let water spill out, and keep pulling it up on the bank higher and higher. till i get rear end up of boat up on solid ground. and then still may have to get a cup to dump water out with a mug / cup before getting a couple folks to flip it over to remove the final bit of water.

but to try and flip the boat that is seating already on the ground, that is full of water. is asking for trouble and most likely the boat will not make it through. water weighs much much more than what you might think what is it like 7 lbs per gallon. to figure out how many gallons length x width x depth (all in feet) x 7.48 = gallons. i am guessing right now full of water boat weights over 2,000 lbs and 2,000 lbs is just the water.

 

[biker4jc]

Could drill a hole and plug it after ............. 30/30 makes a nice clean hole ............. or ......... bring the horses up and let 'em drink for a while .........nahhhh ....., siphon works too

 

[SSdoxie]

About $20 and a trip to Wally World will get you a submerisble Blige pump and set of alligator clips to run it off the tractor battery to pump it out.

 

[joshuabardwell]

Start with a siphon. It requires no equipment that you don't already have (you do have a garden hose, right?). Once that gets a bunch of the water out, see if you can tip it by hand.

If I absolutely had to answer the question you actually asked, I would dump the bucket all the way and raise the boat as gently and slowly as possible with the flat top of the bucket, from as low and "deep" underneath the boat as I could get. But that's probably just going to wreck the hull.

 

[dusty3030]

Pull the drain plug

 

[Brad_Blazer]

A shop vac hose will siphon it out pretty quickly. In case you don't have siphoning experience, submerge the hose in the water to completely fill it. Cap the discharge end with your hand and quickly pull it out to a level below the level of the water and release it. If air gets in the hose it won't work.

 

[cqaigy2]

I'd put my water hose in it and use it like a siphon.

 

[aczlan]

Pull the drain plug and/or siphon the water out.

Aaron Z

 

[joshuabardwell]

I'd put my water hose in it and use it like a siphon.

This. A garden hose will take longer than the shop-vac hose method, but it's much easier to get the siphon started. Just put one end of the hose in the boat, lay the rest of the hose on the ground, and take a good long, deep suck on the other end. Unless you have a very long hose, that should be enough to get the siphon started. If you need to take multiple sucks, put your thumb over the end as you quickly take another breath, to keep the water you have sucked into the hose from falling out. This works best with a shorter garden hose, like a 15-footer, if you have one, because you have to suck less.

 

[Popster]

Fastest water pump in the world is a man in a sinking boat with a 5 gallon bucket. Seriously, you could scoop out enough water in 10 minutes to turn the boat.

 

[Mark Page]

I've never seen a small boat that didn't have a drain plug at the bottom of the transom.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

Drain plug, huh? I thought there ought to be something like that in there, but couldn't see one. I'll ask the water-boatmen to look around. Since they're swimming down there anyway, they might as well be useful.

 

[lilranch2001]

I think this is like one of the silliest questions I have ever seen posed on this TBN.
Anyone who did not know all of the answers put forward on this thread already should have their man card taken away.

 

[JohninCT]

Drain plug, huh? I thought there ought to be something like that in there, but couldn't see one. I'll ask the water-boatmen to look around. Since they're swimming down there anyway, they might as well be useful.

You should be able to see the drain hole from the outside of the boat. If there is just reach in and take it out.

 

[biker4jc]

You know ............ I've got it ......... The question had to do with using the FEL to do the job ............. put the bale spear on and have a stab at it .......... that'll let the water out and give you seat time at the same time. :laughing: Of course it may be a bit harder on the boat, but at least you get to use the tractor.

 

[deerseeker001]

there is a drain plug in the back of the boat near the floor of the boat.

 

[Don87]

You know ............ I've got it ......... The question had to do with using the FEL to do the job ............. put the bale spear on and have a stab at it .......... that'll let the water out and give you seat time at the same time. :laughing: Of course it may be a bit harder on the boat, but at least you get to use the tractor.

ROTFLMAO :laughing::laughing::laughing: