Chock tires at ramp

[nightvision]

Hi all,<br />While retrieving my boat at the lake today, my hand parking brake gave way and I almost lost the truck. I was in the driver seat so I stepped on the break petal and reset the hand brake. I'm not really sure what happened, but could have lost the truck if I was not in it. <br /><br />Now, I'm thinking about using a wheel chock when I get out of the truck to release or retrieve the boat. Would it be better to chock the front tires or back tires? <br /><br />I actually have never seen anyone using a tire choke the ramp. <br /><br />Thanks.

 

[Braxton]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

it can't hurt, id say the rear wheels.

 

[umblecumbuz]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

Hi Nightvision,<br /><br />Here's a dummy trick. I thought like you, so some while ago I decided to keep a chock in the boat so that as I walked from the vehicle to the boat I could grab the chock and stuff it under the rear wheels.<br /><br />The rear wheels were in the water at the time, and the chock I chose was a big lump of wood. Wood floats, don't it!<br /><br />I left a concrete block by the ramp to use as a chock over a year ago, and it's still there. Anybody uses it.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

I read somewhere about tieing a piece of rope to your chocks so when you left the ramp, the chocks would follow the tow vehicle up the ramp to a safe level place.<br />And I vote to chock the front wheels as the rear are probably in the water.

 

[gspig]

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I chock my front as the rear are in the water. I chock because the truck moves when I load the boat.

 

[JRJ]

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Don't get out of your stick shift rig on any hill in neutral and depend on your parking brake. Shut the engine off, put trans in low or reverse, and apply the brake. You won't need a chock. If something goes bad, you could be run-over setting the darn chock.

 

[rascal38]

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N.V. - I mentioned a few weeks ago in this group that I've always used a chock at the rear. I made one out of concrete with a profile that matches the curve of the tire. Retrieving it is no problem, I use a short length of chain hooking the free end to an eyebolt on the frame. Concrete of course does not float so none of the problems that are ssociated with a wooden chock. The security is worth the trade-off of people frantically pointing at your truck as you haul it up dragging the chock!<br />Let us know what you decide to do.

 

[rascal38]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

N.V. - I mentioned a few weeks ago in this group that I've always used a chock at the rear. I made one out of concrete with a profile that matches the curve of the tire. Retrieving it is no problem, I use a short length of chain hooking the free end to an eyebolt on the frame. Concrete of course does not float so none of the problems that are ssociated with a wooden chock. The security is worth the trade-off of people frantically pointing at your truck as you haul it up dragging the chock!<br />Let us know what you decide to do.

 

[rascal38]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

OH NO! Sorry for the double post.

 

[monoshock]

Re: Chock tires at ramp

I use a rubber chock like the one for big rigs, it has a eyebolt on it.

Just tie a rope to the bumper and drag it until your on flat ground. If the rear wheels are in water chock the front and if the rears are out of the water chock the rear.