Hauling a pontoon out of a Palos salvage job

A 22 ft Sun Tracker Party Barge 22 pontoon sat abandoned in Palos with spongy deck boards and a bent rail, no trailer underneath it. The boat had been pulled from the water years back and left to rot where it was beached, the kind of salvage job that looks simple until you're standing in front of it. The pontoon was heavy and going nowhere under its own power. No trailer meant we couldn't just hitch and roll. We brought in a hydraulic lift system, got the floats stabilized, and loaded it onto our deck trailer piece by piece. The crew worked methodically through most of a morning, securing the pontoons and managing the weight distribution so nothing shifted in transit back to the yard. Once we had it locked down, the haul to our facility took a straightforward route heading toward Chicago. No title in the drawer, so we handled the paperwork per the Illinois rules. The pontoon arrived at our yard where we could assess what was salvageable and what would go to the recycler. Crews cover all of Cook County: Chicago, Proviso, Maine, Elgin, Hanover, Orland. We pick up same week in most cases, and we see a lot of seasonal traffic around Palos, IL, where folks move boats in and out of storage facilities or pull them from winter slips before the spring thaw. You call with the address and a description of the 22-footer, we quote you, and if you're ready, we schedule the haul.