Ironwood Pacific E-Z Slide Trailer Slides | Kit 1

I have an aluminium 15-foot bass boat, weight about 1200lbs. After rebuilding the old trailer I decided I needed a way to load the boat more easily. The boat was set up on blocks in my carport. After I had finished refurbing the trailer I slide the boat trailer up under the boat. Without it being in the water the boat slide easily onto the trailer. I had to adjust the front stop and was able with the help of my neighbour to side it back to the correct spot. I was amazed at how easy it was to move.Make sure your boat is latched down there is no doubt it will sild off the trailer if it isn't tied down.

Works as advertised and does exactly what I expected. Using on 16 ft. flat bottom Jon on a tilt trailer. Use care when launching as other reviews have said. Makes it much easier to load and unload. I'm purchasing a winch with a hand brake to control the slide using the tilt trailer.You will scuff the bottom of the boat and lose a little paint, but that is to be expected and is a very minor trade off as far as I am concerned. So far no adverse affect on the rivets**Update: after writing this review I decided to take another look under the boat, and apparently I was mistaken. A few of my rivets have apparently been adversely affected by the pads. Worse case is that a couple of them have received some significant scoring. My guess is that the rivets sit deeper than the screws are recessed inside the countersunk mounting holes. I may be wrong about this, but I don't know any other way it could have scored the rivets that much. It is significant enough that I have decided to remove the pads and go back to carpet. I just ordered a can of "Liquid Rollers" off of Amazon, and will coat the new carpet I have to now install (after cutting out spaces for the pads) and see how that works. Keep in mind that I launch my Jon in shallow water using a tilt trailer--which means I do not back it into the water and float the boat on and off. I slide the boat off the bunks to launch full tilt, then winch it up full tilt on the bunks. If you have t tilt trailer you know what I am talking about. Probably not the best way to go for a riveted bottom it seems. It was worth a try, but I'm going back to carpet and try the liquid rollers. Not trying to bash this product. Just sharing my experience in hopes that it helps others make an informed purchase.Lastly, I am confident that if I didn't have a riveted bottom boat, I would keep the pads on. They work well other than the aforementioned issue.

Quality product and easy to install. Even came with stainless screws. Most important part however is that they really do the job. Boat now just slides off the bunks with almost zero effort. Certain tides at certain ramps in my area make it really difficult to get the trailer out far enough into the water to float the vessel off the bunks and previously required a lot of back straining effort to push the boat off the trailer and into the water when launching. Now with these EZ slides, well the name says it all. Makes it really easy to real the boat in to with your winch when returning to the ramp. I also purchased another brand and they do the job ok but these were much easier to install. Pay attention to the width you need because they do come in different sizes. The ones i ordered were narrower than the end caps i ordered with them. I made it work by just doubling the slides side by side. I would definitely recommend these slides.

I was skeptical when I purchased the E-Z Slide Pads because I didn't see how they would help; however, my boss swore on using something like these saying they made unloading and loading the boat a bunch easier. He was right. After installing them (which was very easy, by the way) I took the boat to the marina, backed the truck down to the water, released the cable holding the boat to the trailer, and watched the boat immediately slide down the skids and into the water and out to sea. I literally had to run into the very cold water to catch the boat (obviously, this was ignorance on my part since I should have held on to the darn boat in the first place). Anyway, the pads work excellently. I am amazed at how little effort is needed to pull the boat back onto the trailer (as you can see above, getting it off the trailer is pretty easy too). I highly recommend the pads for anyone looking to ease the launching and trailering his or her boat.

Don't know why I waited so long for a set of these. I launch my smokercraft from the shore and I can only get the water level up to the bunk but the boat is not floating. I used to struggle getting it off the trailer, now it slides off. No marks on the boat and after launching one day it took less than 1/2 hour to install.

Very basic plastic and much less rugged than I expected. Cost to manufacture the screws might be higher than cost to make these plastic slides.

Good quality product and it really helps loading my boat back on the trailer.

One set is enough for jetski might need more for boat. Used it on my over dock mounted jetski lift. Makes it much easier to winch the jetski up onto the dock. The hardware included seems pretty cheap and require #3 phillips. Even with correct bit you have to be a little careful not to strip the screw heads.