Come to Aus and learn how to recover a jetski

[bunyip]

One of the problems is undertow, I have experienced it in conditions like that which look calm, surf fishing with water halfway up to your knees and the swell pulling the sand out from under your feet and burying you, you don't even realise it until you go to take a step and fall on your face.
I suspect that trailer was getting buried and offering a lot of resistance but why they changed tow vehicles remains a mystery.
Boat ramps can be a great source of entertainment for a few hours.

 

[ovrszd]

The first vehicle appeared to be 2wd.

 

[TractorGuy]

I have fond memories of sitting at the fish camp watching people launch and load boats. The best was a guy trying to teach his girlfriend how to drive a boat onto the trailer. He didn't back the trailer far enough into the water and positioned himself in the back of the truck with the tailgate down. She kept driving up slow and sticking the boat out of reach so he would walk out on the trailer and push her back off. He kept instructing her to get it coming straight at the trailer and gun it. She finally got it coming straight and gave it full throttle, breaking the winch stand off, and driving up into the back of the truck with her bo trapped under the boat. I spit beer out of my nose.

 

[ovrszd]

What a waste of good Beer....

 

[bunyip]

The first vehicle appeared to be 2wd.

Both are 4WD but the first has auto hubs which may not have engaged and not much you can do about it if they haven't.

 

[ovrszd]

Both are 4WD but the first has auto hubs which may not have engaged and not much you can do about it if they haven't.

Yep. I hate those things. They are an attempt to improve the success of operators too lazy to manually lock their hubs and too inept to remember to unlock them.

 

[4570Man]

Both are 4WD but the first has auto hubs which may not have engaged and not much you can do about it if they haven't.

The vacuum lock ford hubs still gave the option to manually lock or unlock.

 

[ovrszd]

The vacuum lock ford hubs still gave the option to manually lock or unlock.

Yep, that's how my SD is equipped. I never rely on them, always get out and manually spin them in/out. I don't need one exploding because it's halfway engaged.

 

[LittleBill21]

The vacuum lock ford hubs still gave the option to manually lock or unlock.

be careful with that statement, not all of them had it, my 1991 ford explorer didn't.

 

[bunyip]

Mine has manual hubs and it is used mainly as a tow vehicle or for picking up 'bulkers' (750kg horse food sack), it goes out about once a week and I engage the hubs once a month just to keep the diff lubed up, generally just a 50km or so run.