Plain and simple solution. You go to northern tools or wherever and buy a $20 come-a-long and some extra rope. Crank the comealong and reset it a few times. I've loaded many cars on trailers with that. That's the cheapest fix, period. A little time involved but not much work.

I don't mind cranking on it, but I'm stuck as to what to use as an anchor point inside the garage. Where would you attach to the trailer?

I have basically the same problem. Have an alley garage and the guy across the alley has no fence but I was tearing up his yard with my truck so I had to find a better solution. Looked at all the options your looking at. Trailer dollies are slow but probably faster than a winch or come-a-long. If you go that way, drill a hole in the garage floor concrete and put in a big eye bolt anchor to hook your winch to.

I decided on the 4-wheeler. Found one on Craigs List. I have a 18' 5" Ranger and I got a 375 Artic Cat. Works OK but should have gotten about a 500cc with a 2" receiver. I have to pull up in the alley, unhook the trailer, move the truck, and use a floor jack to get it on the 4 wheeler. The trailer jack won't drop it low enough to hook onto the ball of the 4 wheeler. The tongue weight of my trailer is somewhere around 400 hundred lbs and even in my youth I wasn't picking that up. Got it down to an art now, so it doesn't take too long. Yep, the 4 wheeler was an extra expense but in the whole scheme of fishing expenses, it was worth it and I like this way better than any of the other options!



I feel for ya, Good Luck and Happy !

I have a rear entry drive also. So I recentyly installed a receiver hitch on my CRV to back it in. I can get it in with my wife's H3 but this keeps me from tearing up any of mine or my neighbors ground.

We looked at 64 houses...

sounds like you shoulda looked at 65 houses

We had a 2008 Wrangler that was AWESOME, but we got rid of that to get this house.