Oops. Don't unhook boat on unlevel ground.

Stop at Walmart for spray paint. Got back outside to truck and and older man had parked a few slots up,from me. He had a nice SUVA and Champion bass boat. He was cranking the jack up and had unhooked the trailer from ball. Oh and the parking lot isn't level. Boat rolled back a few inches to end of safety chains. He looked at boat and pulled on trailer to get safety chains off of vehicle. Let go of trailer and it started doing a slow roll backwards. Should have blocked trailer wheels. He grabs ahold of trailer and stops,it from rolling. Then let's go again and then it starts slow,rolling again. He proceeds to,take the hitch off of the vehicle while boat is doing a slow roll backwards. If it hadn't been for a cart pusher right there and seeing what was happening and grabbing the trailer it would have rolled and hit cars in the other aisle. Full moon time to get out of town, lol

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That's FUNNY, if you're not parked on the lot!!!! :Rofl

It wasn't going to roll my way. He parked way up front by other vehicles. There was level ground at end of lot. When he left he was going out the in way. If someone parked by him he couldn't leave.

and they live among us lol

oh crap , I did that in the yard, thought heck it won't roll in the grass, WRONG,,,, going going oh crap going, finally hit a chug hole and bounced sideways and stopped, And I looked around to see if anyone saw me,,,,,, yep G we roam in the daylight too.

sounds like the guy could have used some help.

You can't fix what he had!:biggrin

Another reason there are two yellow pages full of insurance companies in the book!

WOW

About 20 years ago I was going to fish slough off Mississippi River for crappie guy told me about. Almost to it on back roads and come to one lane bridge out for repairs. No where to back up to turn around 18 ft. Glass bass boat with 3 ft. Steep incline on both sides of road. I get the not so bright idea to unhook in middle of road which I do and get truck headed back in right direction, so now the boat!
I get it about 1/2 spun around and it starts rolling off the crown of road to ditch, I try to stop it and trailer tounge swings and hits me in shin and boat goes in ditch.
So my next action was leaving boat in ditch and getting to drive myselph to hospital 40 miles away for 11 stitches for my knee and then getting a couple buddies to go back with me and help pull boat out of ditch.
My Daddy always said I seemed to like to learn things the hard way!:deadhorse

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Originally Posted by crappies nightmare

About 20 years ago I was going to fish slough off Mississippi River for crappie guy told me about. Almost to it on back roads and come to one lane bridge out for repairs. No where to back up to turn around 18 ft. Glass bass boat with 3 ft. Steep incline on both sides of road. I get the not so bright idea to unhook in middle of road which I do and get truck headed back in right direction, so now the boat!
I get it about 1/2 spun around and it starts rolling off the crown of road to ditch, I try to stop it and trailer tounge swings and hits me in shin and boat goes in ditch.
So my next action was leaving boat in ditch and getting to drive myself to hospital 40 miles away for 11 stitches for my knee and then getting a couple buddies to go back with me and help pull boat out of ditch.
My Daddy always said I seemed to like to learn things the hard way!:deadhorse

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Thats funny (well not really) because I had something almost identical happen to me on a duck hunting trip this past winter. A buddy of mine wanted for us to use my boat because it had more room and we had an extra person going that morning. Thank goodness for the extra person because they came in very handy at the end!! We start heading out to where we are going to launch and its a spot we hadn't launched my rig in before...only my buddies 14ft boat with his Isuzu Trooper. Well I have a 16ft War Eagle and drive a crew cab Ford full size truck. Needless to say we drive about 1/2 mile on the levee and make the turn and then figure out that there isn't near enough space on the levee for me to cut the trailer in to launch the boat. So I then backed up (in the dark of course) about halfway back down the levee and we had the bright idea to unhook the trailer, turn my truck around, and then swing trailer around so I could back it straight to the ramp. Got boat unhooked, got truck turned around, and you can guess what happened next when we went to turn the trailer...........first wheel caught the lip of the levee and away it rolled. This was a pretty steep levee and my boat found its way into the largest set of briers out there!! After several cuts to our hands and other places, the use of a tow strap and the help of a very burly third person that day we managed to get pull it back up on the levee after a good 45 minutes of cussing and throwing things!! The topper for the day was getting out to the spot and not killing a single mallard....I believe we shot one Spoonbill that day. I know we all have "those days" fishing/hunting, but I sure like to see them spread out over a few years!!

Walmartians!!