Easy way to remove boat from trailer on land, followed by some boat trailer mods! 

Oh yeah! Everyone has a boom crane truck.

You should have let me know you were doing this I could have saved you a lot of work. If you ever need to do something like this again, Ill take the boat out on the water for the entire day, and you can work on the trailer. No need to dry dock it.....:)

Great job... Glad to see you made a fixture in the rear that is solid enough to support the boat. Some of the things I've seen other people do online are nothing more than accidents waiting to happen. Makes me wonder how many people started to make a video and didn't post it because they dropped their boat in the driveway.

In the bow I just used a tree as the "crane" for the bow. I put a come-along on the tree to tweak the hook height and used hydraulic a floor jack to raise the boat up to the hook. I just used concrete blocks in the stern and "2x6" at the top. Once the bow hook is on, you can drive the trailer away. Then I lowered the bow back down with the floor jack onto blocks too.

Nice video, I have to do some work on my trailer, don't have a crane truck what other method do you suggest to lift the front of the boat.

Nice work, i especially like how you keep a positive attitude responding to some of the negative comments. I do not have a boom crane however after watching this it gave me a rough idea of what to do and I thought of other things i could use in place of a boom crane. Luckily for me i know enough people who have docks i can just keep i there for the day.

The home made crane on the truck is awesome!!!

Thanks! I need to raise up my boat as well to fix my trailer. This helps lots. Just an FYI, that's not the tongue. It's a coupler or hitch. Whichever you choose to go with. The tongue is the single, long beam that you put the coupler on.

Good stuff! Appreciate the helpful the information!

If you have an extra hitch on a section of tongue you can bolt or weld a receiver to your trailer tongue so you can swap to the longer before going down the launching ramp so the tow vehicle does not go as deep.. You could also use some led rope lighting on the top outside of the trailer fender on the same side you steer the boat from. This lets u line up easier by looking over the side jnto the water . But also put a led rope light set peobably on or bext to the right bunk so you can line up for a straight shot as you are approaching the trailer. Link a runway center line lights but since you are offset in do the same.

Ive owned 17 or 18 boats. In my life and Ive pulled most of them on trailers you will find switching over to a tandem axle will be a much more pleasurable towing experience as what ive found i generally like to use more trailer than what is specked as well as truck because usually manufactures over and under estimate their products to their advantage and marketing I also pull other trailers with my trucks and it makes it more enjoyable when you can be in more control of the entire rig Including handling and braking ironically i bought my last truck to pull a 10K 12foot beam boat around and mainly used it to haul a 7K lb Airstream campiing trailer which was a breeze to take anywhere and allowed me to enjoy the rides much more knowing i could stop almost normally with the camper attached to my Bumper FYI the truck is a Duallie Deisel powered American full size and its hauled a 19,000 lb 5th wheel up and over the Appalachian Mountains without any issues so when you tow something half the size it really makes it nice the boat i dont pull much anymore because of the permits and red tape you have to go through for oversized loads so i let the professionals do that now ! It’s expensive but IMO worth the convienence of not having to deal with the State Police

Good Job, well thought out.

great job

Great video and tips thank you.

Axle back one more notch for more tongue weight .forward would remove tongue weight .

I'm just the opposite. I added 18 inches to the tongue of my boat trailer so I didn't have to back the tow vehicle tires into the water and also to clear the driveway at home. I also installed a new flipped axle and springs to give me more clearance. My boat is also a 16 foot cuddy with a 7 foot beam. I have full carpeted five foot side bunks which really make retrieving the boat really easy.

Just a note. Moving the axle forward take weight off the tongue. Also, shortening up the trailer makes it harder to back up. You will also most likely be kicking yourself if you ever decide to get a bigger boat. Just some things worth thinking about.

Nice done!!

Great video! Just wish i had a crane like u so it would be easy...

"The easy way to get a boat off its trailer... I used a boom truck." Well, an easier way is to just hook my personal Chinook helicopter to the boat and air lift it off. Dude, if everyone had a boom truck, no one would be here trying to work out how to get their boat off their trailer in their backyard.

I would have left the tongue the same length, but installed a hinge so that it folds back when in storage.

Hot dip galv staples won't rust out so easy, electroplate galv will though. Stainless definitely is better though!

Thrifty trailer option ... Making the best of a used trailer.

Use monel staples. Believe it or not, the stainless staples will corrode in salt water

your trailer is actually too short, the bunks should always extend past the back of the transom to keep a "hooker" from forming in the back part of the hull during storage.

Is that Hammond finished? What engine is in her? Do you have a video of it in the water!?!

How can I do this in a barn or in the middle of farm land

Galvalum paint.

Never ever lift a boat up by the eye like that! Holy crap! Someone with an older boat maybe even a newer boat is going to try this and rip that thing out. Its not met to put so much strain on it like that vertically. Just my two cents and hopefully someone will think twice by reading this.

Yeah "law" says no brakes but what are you towing with? Regardless your tow vehicle brakes will appreciate the trailer brakes, unless you like warped rottors.

so what is the easy part of this?

to increase the tonue weight , move the axle back ,, not forward,,,

Apple vally lake?

Super easy as long as you have a boom crane.

Now that's using your noggin

Dude, if you want more tounge weight you move your axle towards the rear not forward. You can move the boat forward also if you want more tounge weight. If you move the axle forward you will have less tounge weight.

Oh sure my boom truck!

That trailers bit short

Only you need is a crane.... 😆

... and for the front end i just snapped my fingers and a genie appeared to lift the frontend .... sheesh man .. .not everyone just has a boom crane laying around

why not just put the boat in the water?

Easy way my Azz you need a boom truck that most don't have

PSA.....do not lift a boat by the front eye. You run a high risk of ripping it off and destroying the boat. That eye is only for winch the boat while partially in the water. This guy is a dip.

Yeah. Easy way if you have a boom truck

wow, that was easy, all I need now is a boom truck.

I mean yeah, we all know a guy with a crane. Lol

Hey this is cool and all but who the hell has a crane

easy way. just buy a tow truck lmfao

You want more tongue weight so you moved the axles forward? You need to move them back. More forward means less tongue weight

Easy way? Because everyone's got a crane right?

Uh, ....yeah....we all have a truck with a crane on it, right?

It's all good and great until the strap holding front up snaps....kind of risky.

Hey thats cheating! You have a crane😂

Too easy. Everyone has a crane truck.

Holy overkill. More money than brains.