Moving a one tonne trailer sailer 115 miles - minstrel and a van - final account

[dylanwinter]

Sorry about this

However, for those at all interested the final cost of moving the boat was as follows

van hire - £40 a day - unlimited miles £6 extra insurance

diesel £62

you could add the 10 miles to pick up the van which was in milton keynes

I said to the woman behind the desk that I was so pleased to have found them - she said that they generally don't have vans with tow bars but this had been used as a road contractors van - it had a yellow light on top and the tow bar was for pulling little diggers

the cab was immaculate though

so next time I have to ring around until I find one of the companies that happens to have one

the long wheel base transit was a delight to drive and well up to the job - but it was a right sod at the tight pick up and on my tight drive

Dylan

 

[Corribee Boy]

Well done, glad you got there!

 

[ProDave]

So did you get the boat and trailer onto a weighbridge?

 

[dylanwinter]

nope

So did you get the boat and trailer onto a weighbridge?

there is a weigh bridge three miles up the road at the dump where I occasionally worked between jobs

but by the time I got back with the boat it was 9.00 at night

the van was too big to get up my drive so I had to get a neighbour with a short wheel base land-rover to drive up the drive and onto the lawn

he had to do it before work - so the boat was sadly unweighed

Dylan

 

[ProDave]

Grease the neighbours palm with fuel money, and get him to take boat and trailer to be weighed. then at least you will know what you are towing.

 

[davidej]

Why don't you get the hire company to give you first refusal when they come to sell the van?

 

[dylanwinter]

30,000 miles

Why don't you get the hire company to give you first refusal when they come to sell the van?

it only has 30,000 miles on the clock - so it will go for thousands

D

 

[Lakesailor]

I'm glad you went for that option Dylan and glad it worked well.

I'd give Pro-Dave's suggestion a whirl. Then you really know where you stand.

 

[dylanwinter]

I shall do that

I'm glad you went for that option Dylan and glad it worked well.

I'd give Pro-Dave's suggestion a whirl. Then you really know where you stand.

I need to get the boat with the load it will actually travel - I have to put some more wood into the boat

and at the moment both rigs are on the trailer

D

 

[Avocet]

I take your point, but the stuff that you'd load into it could, if push came to shove, just be weighed on bathroom scales and added together.

Besides, You've got everyone wondering what your boat and trailer now weigh - you can't just keep us all in suspense!

Why don't you organise a forum sweepstake? - winner gets the proceeds, less the cost of the weighbridge ticket and bribe for the neighbour!

 

[Judders]

Crikey!

That puts the cost of moving our new (to us) Hunter in perespective at £720!

Still, it weighs two and a half tons with half a ton of trailer, so we needed the experience we felt.

 

[dylanwinter]

It means

Crikey!

That puts the cost of moving our new (to us) Hunter in perespective at £720!

Still, it weighs two and a half tons with half a ton of trailer, so we needed the experience we felt.

It means that the next time I run out of work/money then I can bring the costs of ktl down to zero by spending just over £100

Dylan