Lift on a Pontoon Scissor Trailer?

[StrapsTivis]

Would it be possible to add some cribbing or something to the lift on a center lift pontoon trailer? Long story short my cousin took a turn too sharp and dragged a pontoon on the ground last year. I was thinking if it were higher maybe that would help. I'm cheap and I don't want to invest in a bunker trailer.

 

[Grub54891]

I added 2x6 to mine, laid flat. I'm going to add another this year as my toon motor pod interferes with the lift back there. The trailer was an older one that fits, but not perfect. Adjustments can be made.

 

[ahicks]

These trailers are really tippy as is. If he dragged a 'toon, my bet is he took a corner way too fast and the toon prevented the trailer from tipping over! You could add to the height of the trailer to increase the clearance under the toons, but you're making a tippy problem even worse by raising the center of gravity.

I'd tell him to just cool it when towing, acknowledging they don't corner real well, but they aren't all THAT bad. Over the last 40 years or so, I've had my toons all over the place, from the northern Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[Scott Danforth]

raising the 'toon on the trailer with your cousin driving too fast around corners means that the next time, the 'toon will be on its side in the ditch.

tell your cousin to slow down.

 

[ahicks]

Reminds me of a mess I saw this past fall. A local marina I don't think a lot of, had some apparently inexperienced help pulling a boat out for a customer. Apparently they had it going way too fast around a corner (a very busy intersection of 2 4 lane highways). Trailer tipped, the boat went over on its side - right in the middle of the intersection!. The trailer either wasn't tied to the boat or the ties broke, because the trailer was on it's side still attached to the truck and was 100' down the road from the boat. If that wasn't a big enough mess, apparently the battery shorted and started a fire that took about 2 minutes to involve the plastic gas tank. I had to laugh out loud (great big mess with traffic stopped in 4 directions, but nobody hurt), but I feel sorry for what the boat owner had to go through to be made right. His boat was destroyed.... by 2 idiots in too big a hurry to get around a corner.