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I suppose there is always a first time for everything. This morning I went out to hunt on a river and my boat was frozen to the trailer so much so that I couldn't get it off the trailer. This 17 foot boat completly floated my heavy trailer.

I didn't get to hunt where I wanted to this morning because the current was too bad for me to get in with it and try to free the boat.

It's getting too close to the wire to be screwing around like this. Tomorrow, I'll have help.

Carry alot of coffee, drink a cup on the way to the ramp, use whats left to pour on the trailer bunks and if that ain't enough you should be able to piss it off the rest of the way!!! Just joking, sorry to hear about wasting time this late in the game.

I cranked the old Powerstroke this morning just fine. Went out 10 minutes later to leave, and it was only running on 3 cylinders - fuel apparently froze in the lines and filter. Had this truck 3 years and this is the first time this has happened. And yes, I will be using additives from now on.

Wildfowler - that's better than what happened to us with the old rig. Instead of sticking to the trailer, it slid off on the boat ramp about 75 feet from the water....skeg never was the same was it???

Hey 'Wildfowler'........did you un-do the strap?

h2o..did ya have water in the filter by chance..never heard of that happin'...I've got a 7.3 Ltr Diesel..Never had that happen...other issues but never that....3.5 inch auto this am froze up tighter than the hubs of hell...sprayed WD-40 etc..no luck.. thank goodness we'd already shot our ducks...lol

It was 6 degrees here this morning. When I was buying the additive at the parts house this morning there were 2 other guys who also experienced what I did for the first time. One had parked his truck inside and then after getting outside it shutdown in the middle of an intersection. 16 ounces of additive later I was clacking right on down the road again.

MAN IS IT COLD!

Anatidae wrote:Hey 'Wildfowler'........did you un-do the strap?

Yes Anat I did. It was just like the boat had been welded to the trailer.

And BTW, the motor's a Mercury and it idles just fine thank you as you'll probably see this Spring. I overheard you "bad-mouthing" the best motors on the market the other day.

Reminds me of the time me and some friends we out skiing on white river. We saw some women in a boat. The boat appeared to riding low in the water they looked kinda confused. We pulled over to see if they needed some help. They proceeded to tell us how one of them had borrowed their husband's new boat and it wouldn't run right. One of my friends jumped in and tried it out but when he gassed it the front would dive. After trying to get it to trim we got to looking and found the problem. She had backed the boat in, unhooked it from the ball and had motored out with the trailer still strapped to the boat!!!!!!

H20, I gonna cry horse crap on that!

Featherduster, obviously coffee has a little different effect on you in the morning than it does me. But, I guess the boat would slide off the trailer real easy if I did use my coffe byproduct.

Cry what you want. If you had work work around some of the idiots I have to it wouldn't suprise you one bit. The world is full of 'em.

I'll agree about the #'s of idiots out there.