Man dies after being run over while asleep at a camping ground in southern New South

**Ancient Mariner** · 8th January 2019, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by trout1105

I put the tow vehicle into low range 4WD and select 1st gear/park and apply the handbrake then Drive the boat onto the trailer.
If you drive the boat onto the trailer the whole operation is fast and effortless especially If you use a boat latch to hold the boat in place

With this method you spend considerably less time on the boat ramp and less time in the water/sand when doing a beach launch/retrieve

Good luck with that

**trout1105** · 8th January 2019, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

Good luck with that

Some people just shouldn't be allowed to own a boat

**Ancient Mariner** · 9th January 2019, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Knowing Noel a little (AncientMariner)
That won’t be no Chincy Pom X-Brake
That will be a one-off beautifully engineered
Custom engineered masterpiece!

Would be perfect for launch/retrieve big boats with electric winches

I had a 6x6 chunk of hardwood on a length of restraint rope tied to the tray
For lunch retrieve
Fender in neutral idling to keep Volts up to the boat winch
Handbrake on and block of wood chocking back wheel

S

Thanks Steve sorry to disappoint but just a crappy xbrake tried a couple of mods ,bigger pad and longer lever

Started on a 2 piston aluminium job but decided the hydraulic- electric winch project more worthwhile

Regards Noel

**d2dave** · 9th January 2019, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Lots of dubious practices were commonplace in the 1940s and 1950s into the sixties when society as a whole was far less well off than today, and safety standards a lot lower - as shown by the road toll! Also considerable hangover of makeshift practices from wartime shortages.

I remember my dad would never leave the car in gear when parked in the street.
His reason was that if some one ran into the back of it the gearbox could be damaged.

I can't remember what he did when parked on a hill, whether his reasoning was for flat areas only, I'm not sure

**ozscott** · 9th January 2019, 10:41 AM

A vehicle will roll down a hill in the opposite gear - eg downhill slope parked in reverse if the handbrake fails. It is just that parked in gear takes some of the load off the handbrake.

Cheers

DiscoMick · 9th January 2019, 08:47 PM

I remember when a kid on the farm my father parked the old Army Jeep and walked off to round up cows.
He came back to find the Jeep had simply disappeared.
The tyre marks led down a slope, across a paddock, through a barbed wire fence and over a cliff. The orange Jeep was visible far below, where it remained, probably until now.
The handbrake had never worked, so either it jumped out of gear or he had forgotten to put it in gear.
We got a Land Rover after that, with a working handbrake.

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