No idea how much an M15 trailer weighs (depends on who made it, with what materials), but it's going to be enough that you'll want at least a couple young strong guys to do the heavy tilting/lifting if you try sliding it into your side yard. If the side yard is paved, you could use heavy duty furniture, or vehicle wheel, dolly. If not paved, not gonna work as their small hard wheels won't roll on soft ground. You'd need a dolly with big pneumatic wheels like some soft-surface hand trucks have. Alternate idea - how wide is your trailer sitting flat? Under 8 ft I assume for road legal without special permits. How much would you have to tilt it side to side (one wheel up, one still on ground) to get the horizontal width down to under 6 ft? You could set up a plank on supports on one side of the side yard, for one wheel to rest up high enough so it will fit diagonally. No need to remove wheels or have some other cart to put it on. In other words the side yard is the base of a right triangle, the height of the ramp is the vertical side, and the trailer width is the hypotenuse Here's a calculator that will help you figure it out: https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/hypotenuse "b" is width of side yard. "a" is height of support for wheel on one side. "c" is trailer frame/width of trailer (wheel to wheel unless something sticks out wider than wheels). A bit less than 45 degrees tilt will get a 7.5 ft wide trailer into a 5.5 ft wide space. If there's enough room out in front of the side yard, you can have a plank ramp going up from ground level to the elevated plank for the high wheel. Just roll it back...one wheel goes up, the other stays down. That is where the several strong young guys still come into play though, getting it rolled back in there. cheers, John On 2/25/24 10:07, casioqv@usermail.com wrote:
Hi Jim,
Your question depends highly on the design of your trailer, and each trailer is very different. For a lot of the lighter weight, or more modular trailers, breaking it down and storing it is viable, and the weight could be as low as a few hundred pounds.
Sincerely, Tyler
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sadler" <jimsadler@jascopacific.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2024 6:49:05 AM Subject: M_Boats: M15 trailer storage
Ok skippers...., here we go!
The SV Pelican is moored in a slip but I need to keep the trailer at my house. I live in HOA community so parking in out front is out of the cards and I to cheap to pay go storage yard.
While At Home Depot I thought if I could rotate the trailer 90 deg About the long axis and remove the wheels I could store it in my 6 ft side yard on a Home Depot lumber cart ( or similar to) in my side yard. 6ft
I am pushing 80 yrs and sanity may be the second thing to go
Any of you skippers this nuts?
How much does much does m15 trailer weigh ?
If u want to cast me adrift from this form I understand .
Capt Jim SV Pelican
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