what things have you sucked up and found in your clean out

[jaybro72]

I have only sucked up a plastic water bottle

 

[Magic]

Plastic bag, ski-rope-- once =), soda can, water plants, various size pieces of wood, baby doll, bikini top, millions of gallons of water creating hundreds of hours of smiles.....

 

[007]

Branches, tree bark, underwater grass, a piece of 2x4, a Dorito's bag, a smashed 1 quart oil container, etc...

 

[Lspeedss]

Nothing exciting. Wood chips and small sticks. Only thing that ever hung up to where a " reverse flush" did not clear was a 1" x 1" by 1/8"piece of wood that I had to pull the boat out to get it un-wedged. Oh I did chop up what I believed to be a bream on start up once. Does that count?

 

[albett3]

Thankfully, just small sticks, various grasses, and fishing line. The fishing line is a pain to remove!

 

[Julian]

The biggest PITA was a frisbee (it wedged in there really well).

• Also lifted a 4x8 sheet of plywood off the bottom
• Ski rope
• sticks
• A baseball sized rock (in my old LX210)-we coasted over a rock pile, I shut down immediately-no damage, but man it make a hell of a noise!!! Scared the crap out of me!

 

[Magic]

The biggest PITA was a frisbee (it wedged in there really well).

• Also lifted a 4x8 sheet of plywood off the bottom
• Ski rope
• sticks
• A baseball sized rock (in my old LX210)-we coasted over a rock pile, I shut down immediately-no damage, but man it make a hell of a noise!!! Scared the crap out of me!

Glad to see we are not the only members of the "sucked a ski-rope" club...... Holy Moly that rock must have made a racket!! Glad there was no damage!

Still wondering how you got a Frisbee stuck in there! lol!

 

[Impelled]

A big PITA was a walnut. It made a hellava sound when throttling up. Stopped engines after failed attempt to back flush and reached in cleanout port. Walnut would then float up to the top of the chamber and I kept missing it on the "Feel"....then start up...there was the noise. Finally felt it and grabbed it after a few cycles of start and restart. A couple of chucks of wood stuck on the blade a few times too, which can be wedged in there tight!

 

[Dave]

My pride the first time I took the boat out and didn't know about the clean out plugs

 

[Kevin M]

On a trip up the Ohio river last June, the locks were so filled with shit, I was sucking something up every lock.

• Plastic Bags
• A rope, compliments of my brother-in-law while releasing from a lock.
• Sticks, twigs, leaves
• and a Condom

 

[tdonoughue]

Only a ski rope... I also hate for anyone to be alone.

Sigh.

 

[paul075]

Oyster shells

 

[paul075]

On a trip up the Ohio river last June, the locks were so filled with shit, I was sucking something up every lock.

• Plastic Bags
• A rope, compliments of my brother-in-law while releasing from a lock.
• Sticks, twigs, leaves
• and a Condom

Locks here are the same, filled with trash.

 

[jaybro72]

oh ya, I sucked up rocks in a jetski and later found a crawdad in there. boiled that bad boy up

 

[Dave]

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Wow, I never thought an oyster shell would do that. I figured the shell would just get chopped up.

 

[__ScottyDont]

The biggest PITA was a frisbee (it wedged in there really well).

• Also lifted a 4x8 sheet of plywood off the bottom
• Ski rope
• sticks
• A baseball sized rock (in my old LX210)-we coasted over a rock pile, I shut down immediately-no damage, but man it make a hell of a noise!!! Scared the crap out of me!

How did you pick up a 4x8 sheet of plywood?!

Nothing in my 210 however my old polaris jet ski from years back we sucked up a rock and it cracked the impeller, snapped the shaft and destroyed the housing on its way out...

 

[Julian]

How did you pick up a 4x8 sheet of plywood?!

Nothing in my 210 however my old polaris jet ski from years back we sucked up a rock and it cracked the impeller, snapped the shaft and destroyed the housing on its way out...

I had a slip on a lake in Wisconsin, and the water level dropped quite a bit. The slip was already shallow, and this day I backed out of the slip and started very slowly (idle) cruising out. Then the boat slowed to a halt. I'm thinking...WTF...maybe I sucked up weeds. So I pull the plugs (this was on my LX210) and there is NOTHING in there. So I start the boat again and she moves a little, then slows to a stop again. So I decide to goose it a little and move deeper. Nothing. Now this has me really perplexed. So I pull the plugs again and really reach in there, and feel the grate....and sure enough, there is something up against the grate on both sides! So I get out of the boat and reach underneath, and a totally waterlogged, bendable 4x8 sheet of plywood that is neutrally buoyant is sitting under the boat! I pull it out and drag it to the shore. It had probably been on the bottom for ages, and the jets just lifted it up off the bottom!

 

[__ScottyDont]

@Julian that's incredible, would have never imagined that happening

 

[jetboater4life]

In my old Seadoo I ran over a floating flipflop/sandel that got wedged it in my intake grate. Thought I had blown an engine as my flip down grates were not clearing it. Was I ever suprised when I got it out of the water. The flip flop was lodge in there pretty good.

 

[Zarrella]

WwwTE="Kevin M, post: 11939, member: 125"]On a trip up the Ohio river last June, the locks were so filled with shit, I was sucking something up every lock.

• Plastic Bags
• A rope, compliments of my brother-in-law while releasing from a lock.
• Sticks, twigs, leaves
• and a Condom

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Ewww.... a condom???