Boat Rollers???

[mallards32]

Does anyone know where there are some boat rollers that weren't destroyed by hurricanes in southwest louisiana. Building some and would like to look at some existing to have a go by. I know lacassine and sabine's boat rollers were both destroyed by the hurricane and I can't find any more around here.

[longsidelandry]

You talking about rollers on a levee to pull a boat over on?

[SULPHITE]

I think so...I'm not aware of any.

[longsidelandry]

If that is what you're talking about, let me tell you how we've made some in the past. Take some pvc pipe, I think we used 2", cut it a little wider than the bottom of your boat and we made some "brackets" out of either 1/2" or 3/4" pipe, ran one pipe through the pvc with a piece on each end to stick in the ground and put another pipe running under the pvc a couple of inches to kind of help hold the pvc off the ground a little bit so that they would still roll. We were only pulling a 14' flat with a 15 over it but it worked very well in the marsh.

[longsidelandry]

Here's a drawing of how we did ours...

[SULPHITE]

ross is da man!

[speck-chaser]

Originally Posted by longsidelandry

Here's a drawing of how we did ours...

dang ross do you work for nasa or something?

[mallards32]

that's a great idea for a 14' boat and i appreciate the idea. but i need to pull a boat up to 2000 lbs over a levee. I'm designing the rollers and was just wondering where I could look at some existing to get some ideas on different ways to go about it.

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

dang ross do you work for nasa or something?

haha nope, just bored

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by mallards32

that's a great idea for a 14' boat and i appreciate the idea. but i need to pull a boat up to 2000 lbs over a levee. I'm designing the rollers and was just wondering where I could look at some existing to get some ideas on different ways to go about it.

O damn, yea they wouldn't work too well on that heavy of a boat unless you would put some flat bar under the bottom pipe to help keep it on top the ground or run some other pipe perpendicularly under all of the rollers, that would maybe help out as well to stop it from sinking.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see that you said you're designing some rollers already.

[speck-chaser]

Originally Posted by mallards32

that's a great idea for a 14' boat and i appreciate the idea. but i need to pull a boat up to 2000 lbs over a levee. I'm designing the rollers and was just wondering where I could look at some existing to get some ideas on different ways to go about it.

mais das a heavy pullover boat.mais how you plan on getting dat back in the back of yo truck?

[Raymond]

Call Sabine Hqrts, they should b able to help

[CatDaddy]

Originally Posted by longsidelandry

o damn, yea they wouldn't work too well on that heavy of a boat unless you would put some flat bar under the bottom pipe to help keep it on top the ground or run some other pipe perpendicularly under all of the rollers, that would maybe help out as well to stop it from sinking.

Edit: Sorry, didn't see that you said you're designing some rollers already.

waltrip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jordan]

Lmao. Waltrip don't know how to spell any words with 5 or more letters

[longsidelandry]

Originally Posted by CatDaddy

waltrip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lmao

[Kenner18]

The rollers I remember at sabine was more like a boat lift and then it rolled across the levee. The one i saw at lacasine was just boat trailer rollers on a frame that angled in to the water and over the levee on lake misere.

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by Kenner18

The rollers I remember at sabine was more like a boat lift and then it rolled across the levee. The one i saw at lacasine was just boat trailer rollers on a frame that angled in to the water and over the levee on lake misere.

This is exactly what they had years ago at Sabine until they went to the boat lift....It was just rollers on a frame, nothing fancy with a hand crank winch...