Wooden Boat Disposal from Oxfordshire Garage

Not every boat that we scrap is in a boat yard. More often they are in people’s gardens, garages or driveways. This one was a little wooden launch buried in garage. From the pictures we had been sent the trailer looked to be in ok condition. However we very rarely like to take a chance with trailers that haven’t been moved in a while. Over the years we have had some trailers almost collapse on us. So we always try and load the whole lot onto a flat trailer.

We think that the owner wanted to have the wooden boat disposed of to get some room back in the garage. The boat hadn’t been on the water for a number of years. With old wooden boats like this they can dry out and no longer be usable without considerable attention.

As always our collection team made light work of the process. We arranged a time to be with the owner and parked up our flat bed trailer close to the garage. Then once the various items like tools and other garage paraphernalia were removed we simply pulled her out by hand. It was an extremely light boat so it was loaded with ease.

Once we had returned back to base we removed the wooden boat from the trailer. The wooden hull can be recycled any metal fixings would also be removed. Her trailer we have kept and we currently use as a yard trailer. This too will either be sold on or will go with the metal recycling.