"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:48:55 -0500, HK penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

...to lift that tongue of that trailer by hand with the boat on it and
put it on the hitch ball? No, I don't mean youse guys with the small
boats.

I think the last time I was able to do this was in the late 1950s, with
my 15' Wolverine and 25 or 33 hp Big Twin.

No.

At about 500# tongue weight I might get it picked up (when I was
younger I could have, I'm old enough now to be wise enough not to
try), but having accomplished that, I'd never get it to roll in the
gravel.....

No.

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.



Since most of us here are 50 or older, unless you regularly move around that
kind of weight (200 lbs +), It's probably wiser to let a tongue jack do the
work.
Better to save your strength trying to improve this newsgroup by bouncing
the yahoo faction out the back door.