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re: How Much Canoe Would You Hang Out the Back of Your Truck?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:57 pm to Hammertime
Posted on 4/22/14 at 1:57 pm to Hammertime
Alright, here's a physics/geometry question:
With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.
With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:10 pm to Teague
I'd try and get one Yakima bar for the cab portion and use that mount with it. Keep it as flat as possible and high up, kind of like this.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:10 pm to Teague
I have a screw f150 with a short bed and I carry my 14.5 kayak with one of those bed extenders with no problem. It was like $60 from harbor freight.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:14 pm to Teague
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With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.
You'll be fine. Just strap it tight and it shouldn't move too much. Ratchet straps are your friend, but you only need one. I'm paranoid about stuff falling out of my truck, but you don't need 14 pieces of rope to keep a kayak in your truck bed.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:30 pm to Teague
The kayak will follow your truck, essentially you have just made your truck a few feet longer, no different than carrying lumber in the back of a truck. It's a lot different than pulling a trailer.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 2:30 pm to Teague
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With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.
I hauled a 14' flat in the bed of a 1984 short-bed Toyota pickup to every river, gravel pit, pond, ditch, lake, bayou in the Florida Parishes every weekend during high school and college. I would put a cinder block and an ice chest in the boat against the cab, and tie a rope from the nose of the boat to the bumper "just for looks." The only time I ever had an issue was when I hit a cow backing up in a pasture. She never moved until the boat hit her, then she somehow knocked the boat out of the back of my truck with her head. Hell, we used to stack flats 2-high when going on a float trip with 4 people. Put one boat on top of the other and carry on. When doing that, we'd draw straws to see who had to ride on top of the double-stacked boats (didn't have no king-cabs back then).
Posted on 4/22/14 at 3:56 pm to Teague
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With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side
Yes and no. With a trailer tight turns mean your trailer cuts off the inside of the curve.
With a fixed long length extending from your back wheels you will in fact have the canoe swing much wider than your truck.
With wider sweeping turns the difference is negligible with both.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 8:12 pm to Teague
quote:I don't think you'll have much tail swing.
Alright, here's a physics/geometry question:
With that much boat hanging out back behind the back wheels, am I going to sideswipe cars/trees/grannies when I make turns? I'm trying to visualize if the boat will just follow me, or if it will swing way out to the side.
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