How to get home after you blow out a spring on the ramp

• How to get home after you blow out a spring on the ramp   by Mitz on 02 Feb, 2015 08:57
• What you can do with a 4x4 post and gorilla tape!
  
  My spring broke while putting in for a tournament as soon as the boat floated off Ping.. Still fished and while out there found some drift wood. Got me 20miles home without and issue.
  
  
  
  
  -Mitz
• Reply #1   by Curt on 02 Feb, 2015 09:23
• Ingenuity at its finest! Good job with the temporary fix @Mitz 
• Reply #2   by Jimmy RodandReel on 02 Feb, 2015 09:45
• HA HA!  That's the same thing we had to do a few years ago on the way back from the lake. We hit a pot hole and the spring broke right at the eye. The tire burnt all the paint off the fender before we could get in stopped. 
  
  AND  it was 2:00am!  It sucked but we did the same thing with some scrap 2x4's we had in the truck and some creatative use of ratchet straps and got it home. Yes I feel your pain. 
• Reply #3   by Bullet3119 on 03 Feb, 2015 08:54
• It's amazing what can be done with ratchet straps and gorilla tape.
• Reply #4   by Curt on 03 Feb, 2015 09:02
• Quote from: Bullet3119 on 03 Feb, 2015 08:54

  It's amazing what can be done with ratchet straps and gorilla tape.
  

  
  ...And some ingenuity & creativity
• Reply #5   by Mitz on 03 Feb, 2015 16:22
• Guess watching all those episodes of MacGyver and A-Team may have helped! 
  
  HA
• Reply #6   by Curt on 03 Feb, 2015 18:34
• Quote from: Mitz on 03 Feb, 2015 16:22

  Guess watching all those episodes of MacGyver and A-Team may have helped! 
  
  HA
  

  
  Ha ha ha! That's a good one @Mitz 
• Reply #7   by bscravens on 03 Feb, 2015 22:49
• Good to know!!

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