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Tail boom support for transport - Homer Bell - 09-18-2026
The question comes up many times about how to support the tail during trailering. Something I’ve used now for many years with decent success for probably 100,000 miles is a band you can get at a welding supply store that is used to hold tanks for welding gas. An 8” band comes with a handy standoff bracket that can be helpful to attach your support tube. With a towel wrapped around the boom just in front of the vertical stabilizer, this can give you a good place to support the tail near the rear, where it should be supported, not anywhere forward of there.
If your trailer is too short and the tail hangs over, you can bolt a 2x8 to the floor and hang it out the back to give you a place to hook your support. I used a 16’ trailer for many years using this setup. Trailers shorter than that should probably be avoided, but some have used 12,14’ with a long tongue and pulled backward. Always remember, if you pull backward, you must secure your doors with a cord or rope around them to keep from blowing open. If doors come open they can break your windscreen as well as the door. Wail a minute forget that, I sell both of those things. Windscreens are now over 2K and doors are over $500. Plus shipping is usually several hundred, not including crating.
It’s best to use tandem axle trailers with lightly sprung suspension and a ridge frame with little or no end to end flex. Snow mobile trailers are not good . I have used them, but we made a truss along both side with a cable which firmed it up a bunch.
Almost every gathering someone pulls in with a damaged tail boom, don’t let that be you.