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Hello TS users,
There's a lot of experienced off-roaders here so here's my question with a bit of background.
I need to back my boat down my yard to a lake.
It is 15 degrees or 27% grade-surveyed it (then I have a flat run-out on the top and bottom).
It's about a 75 ft long slope.
I have an unmodified 2001 V8 access cab with Yokahama AT's that are good but not new (~75%).
Boat and trailer are 4000 pounds loaded.
Trailer has hydraulic brakes so I guess I could actuate the trailer brakes to slow things down a LITTLE (drum trailer brakes).
The yard has been "modified" so I can't dig in more than 1" (geosynthetics underneath designed to be driven on).
My intent is to put on a front receiver hitch, mount a winch to it to prevent from sliding down the hill.
I only need to do this 3 - 4 times a year and intend to take the front winch off when not in use (weight, winch wear, looks, don't want to mod the front springs) but leave the front hitch mounted.
I have a good anchor point on the top of the hill.
When you get done laughing, please give me an honest opinion of winch size and anything I may have overlooked - excluding a trip to the liquor store!
The winch rule seems to be 1.5x the weight of the load which puts me around 14000 pounds). Seems a bit of overkill considering it's a rolling load and the brakes do about enough to stop the truck and the truck can drive up the slope without a winch with no boat.
Thanks for your patience, but I figure why waste someone's time with lack of info. Incidentally, I estimate this rolling load on the slope at constant speed to be just under 3000 pounds of dead load.
THANK YOU FOR THE HELP!!:ts:
There's a lot of experienced off-roaders here so here's my question with a bit of background.
I need to back my boat down my yard to a lake.
It is 15 degrees or 27% grade-surveyed it (then I have a flat run-out on the top and bottom).
It's about a 75 ft long slope.
I have an unmodified 2001 V8 access cab with Yokahama AT's that are good but not new (~75%).
Boat and trailer are 4000 pounds loaded.
Trailer has hydraulic brakes so I guess I could actuate the trailer brakes to slow things down a LITTLE (drum trailer brakes).
The yard has been "modified" so I can't dig in more than 1" (geosynthetics underneath designed to be driven on).
My intent is to put on a front receiver hitch, mount a winch to it to prevent from sliding down the hill.
I only need to do this 3 - 4 times a year and intend to take the front winch off when not in use (weight, winch wear, looks, don't want to mod the front springs) but leave the front hitch mounted.
I have a good anchor point on the top of the hill.
When you get done laughing, please give me an honest opinion of winch size and anything I may have overlooked - excluding a trip to the liquor store!
The winch rule seems to be 1.5x the weight of the load which puts me around 14000 pounds). Seems a bit of overkill considering it's a rolling load and the brakes do about enough to stop the truck and the truck can drive up the slope without a winch with no boat.
Thanks for your patience, but I figure why waste someone's time with lack of info. Incidentally, I estimate this rolling load on the slope at constant speed to be just under 3000 pounds of dead load.
THANK YOU FOR THE HELP!!:ts: