Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Eagleye]
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08/09/22 07:19 AM
08/09/22 07:19 AM
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Willy Firewood
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I have built some custom rigs for canoes and layout boats. Sorry none around and cannot find digital photos.
Go over the trailer to bring it up to new, reliable, and improve where possible. Bearings, hubs, wheels, tires, spare tire, welds, jack, and a new hitch coupler.
Flip over your canoe. Use treated 2x4 lumber on edge to determine the length, width, and position for at least 2 bunks. Cut the lumber to the desired length and wrap with marine carpet using heavy stapler. Recreate right side up on the trailer checking for position, length, and width. You may wish to build a simple rectangle to mount on the trailer. Depending upon skills and tools, it can be easier than fabbing something from metal. Or you may wish to fab something from metal, weld on mounting tabs, or get fancier. Use necessary wood, metal, and hardware to secure and stabilize. Add eye bolts to secure ratchet straps.
Build a wooden box or attach a tool box to hold ratchet straps and other odds and ends.
Don’t forget the lights. Run all new wire. Use a new LED light set. Minimize wire cuts and connections. Use good connectors that solder and have shrink tubing.
Show photos of your progress.
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Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Eagleye]
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08/09/22 09:25 AM
08/09/22 09:25 AM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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are you thinking of having it canoe up or upside down ?
many canoe trailers here are the upside down because they ride well that way and you can put 2-3-4 on a trailer like that depending on how much rack you built and they store without collecting water that way
if you go hull down to make launch easy then long bunks of pressure treated 2x6 covered in indoor our door carpet
you can probably shorten up the tongue some make sure to keep the weight forward of the axel loaded 40-50 pounds on the ball with such light trailers it is easy to get too little tongue weight
if your thinking up side down then the storage box on the bottom with the rack or racks to be able to haul and store more than one canoe would be nice
canoe bottoms really aren't thick and intended for stuff to be riding in them bouncing down the road my neighbor had a car top row boat and well now I have it , it has several patches on the bottom one he told me they hit a bump and he had the anchor sitting in the boat they get out fishing and water starts coming in he picks up the anchor and that is where the water was leaking in , the anchor bouncing put a hole in the aluminum
Last edited by GREENCOUNTYPETE; 08/09/22 09:28 AM.
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Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Eagleye]
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08/09/22 10:13 AM
08/09/22 10:13 AM
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Willy Firewood
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Eagle - you are serious!
Take all of our ideas and mostly yours and make yourself a great trapping rig. Have fun!
On a canoe trapping trailer that I made the canoe rode upside down on a large box so it could be parked with no concern of filling with rain or snow. Gear rode below the canoe. Made it easy to grab the canoe, then get whatever I needed. Canoes don’t hold up well trailered on bunks unless very well supported.
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Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Willy Firewood]
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08/09/22 10:23 AM
08/09/22 10:23 AM
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Eagleye
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Eagle - you are serious!
Take all of our ideas and mostly yours and make yourself a great trapping rig. Have fun!
On a canoe trapping trailer that I made the canoe rode upside down on a large box so it could be parked with no concern of filling with rain or snow. Gear rode below the canoe. Made it easy to grab the canoe, then get whatever I needed. Canoes don’t hold up well trailered on bunks unless very well supported.
The reason I posted was for this feedback- I could easily consider flipping it for a better trailer ride- it's only 50lbs to lift so that might be the best design.
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Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Eagleye]
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08/09/22 01:16 PM
08/09/22 01:16 PM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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I looked up your canoe thinking 12' 9" was rather short it looks very flat and wide https://goldenhawkcanoes.com/photos-videos/I would run 2 wide planks as bunks set them so that the keel rides right between them and carpet them you could still work in some storage for poles and stakes and stuff underneight the front of the canoe with the canoe 12' 9 inches 153 inches if you got 3/4 of it ahead of the axel that would leave 38 1/4 behind the center line of the axel and the bunks could extend about 20 inches of that easily I would do tube up the sides about 4 inches wider than your max width so when you pull it on it lines up and rides up , I hate not having anything on my little boat trailer to guide the boat in especially on a windy day or in a current a center plank all the way down the tongue to walk on with traction tape on it. then bunks just wider apart and a few inches higher up than your center plank to carry the weight of the canoe so you can't run the keel on the traction tape but you can walk it down and get in with the last few feet still on the bunks partially in the water and push off this way if at a launch you don't need to go park after launching you can launch right from the trailer using it like a dock an come right back to it
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Re: Canoe Trailer for Trapping
[Re: Eagleye]
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08/10/22 08:25 PM
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Eagleye
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Bryce, This whole thing is your fault- you had to bring your Golden Hawk to Marshfield several years back, for your muskrat trapping demonstration, I upgraded mine at the show after that Good suggestions!
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