Shortening a Ute Tray - Any Hints????

[shayned]

You may find trail boss comes from the hayman reece factory anyway, of course my crap memory may be failing me again.

[Handyman]

I had exactly the same problem, but there was no way I was shortening the tray as I deliberately bought a longer one. I had an engineer modify the towbar and it worked fine, but I used it as is for a few months before I got around to changing it.

Towed the boat and various trailers fine, but getting them on and off under the tray was less than ideal.

Also, I had a mate who did quite a bit of damage to his hand with that sort of set up. Hooked his well balanced boat up fine, then threw some extra gear in the back of it after he pulled it in from the water which made it back heavy. As soon as he released the trailer from the ball, it flew up and smashed the back of his hand against the tie rail of his tray resulting in some nasty bruising and tendon damage. Ok, so your boat or trailer should always be well balanced, but we all make mistakes. Especially if you're in a hurry or just in after a long day's fishing.