This has helped me load my two log toon.

[steveiam]

Steve,
Nice work on the guides. I think it is great when the guides are on the "inside" of the trailer rather than on the outside edges. They serve exactly the same purpose by guiding the toons (using the interior sides of the toons rather than the outside of the toons) without making the trailer any wider on the road.

Thanks-
It's good to see how others have ways that work for them also-
When I first got my toon ( that had rollers for guides ) and had so much trouble loading it I looked around on the web to see how it could be made easier, all I could really find was differing ways to approach the trailer, how far to back it down and so forth-
I would watch other toons load and many loaded pretty smooth overall and just thought as I got more experience it would get easier-
It never did for me while I had the roller guides on.
If you have always had guide boards it would be hard to know how different they are.
I just thought since bass pro sold the trailer like that then I must just be one if the few that had this problem, then as I went to bass pro once I was looking at new trailers and they all had guideboards-made me say hmmmmmm.
I just wished as I had searched " problems loading toon"
That someone would have said get those damn guide rollers replaced with boards.
I'm hoping that the title here will help someone else that may have the same situation.
I did try the guides on the outside but I drive on some small roads getting to my lake and it just seemed too wide for memo feel comfortable, so moving them inside led to what I finished with, and as I said it has made a WORLD of difference.
I know many of you have things that worked for you and I'm glad you posted here because sometime someone will do a search on here for help loading their toon-and this just gives some more info to try to help them.

Hopefully Obama will have more time for boating or something after tomorrow-just saying--

[ROLAND]

I did try the guides on the outside but I drive on some small roads getting to my lake and it just seemed too wide for memo feel comfortable, so moving them inside led to what I finished with, and as I said it has made a WORLD of difference

Hopefully Obama will have more time for boating or something after tomorrow-just saying--

Hi Steve... the guides that I have on my trailer ( earlier picture ) are a bit wide...and because mine flare "outward" they appear to be even wider. However, those pvc guides just slide over the bracket so we can just pull them off and lay them in the back of the truck when towing... I hardly ever do it but it can be done... as for Obama having some additional recreational time, I sure hope your right, but I've got a bad feeling about this...still keeping my fingers crossed.

[STEVEBRENDA]

The caveat with having guides on the outside of the toon’s is that it make a 8 ½ ft wide pontoon too wide to travel down roads in many states. My state's legal width without a Wide Load special permit is 8 ½. By the time you put the guides on the outside, you are pushing 9 ft wide. Most of the lanes on our roads and bridge (especially the older bridges) are 10 feet wide in Missouri. Six inches does not leave a lot of room to play with.
(insert your own thoughts here).

[GXPWeasel]

I've got the guides on the inside of the trailer as well on mine. I absolutely LOVE them. I can think of only 1 time where I wasn't able to load on the first time with them, and that was in my first season of owning this boat (first pontoon) and it was dark, and I was atleast 12 cans deep at the time. A lot of variables against me, but I got it the second time. I give credit to the internal guides for me even getting on the trailer.