Outboard Motor Removal in Shellman Bluff, GA

Around Shellman Bluff the boat and the motor don’t always leave together. The hull gets sold or scrapped, the motor gets pulled off to rebuild one of these days, and then it lives in a shed or under the carport with a prop and a coffee can of parts beside it. Sheds and garages full of gear are a big part of what this end of McIntosh County looks like, and an outboard nobody has cranked in a long while fits right in.

It could be a motor on a wooden stand in a shed out at White Chimney or one bolted to a sawhorse in a carport as you come down River Road toward the Bluff. Out where it’s boats, docks and tidal water, a motor that won’t start gets set aside rather than thrown out, and after enough seasons it’s just in the way of the gear people actually use.

Trolling motors and the odd inboard or outdrive pile up the same way, and they can all go on one trip.

Your photos tell us roughly how big the motor is and what’s between it and the truck: a step down out of the shed, a gravel drive, a soft patch of yard. Small motors get carried. Bigger ones ride a dolly, strapped and upright, because a heavy motor tipping on a step is exactly how a doorframe gets gouged.

Old fuel or oil still in it is normal for a motor that’s been sitting. Mention it with your photos and we’ll sort it out with you when we quote.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

Everything leaves on our truck, and we work out where each part should go by what it is.

The block, shaft and lower unit are metal, and metal usually goes to scrap recycling, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

A depth finder or an old radio riding along in the parts box usually goes to Broadhurst, which takes certain broken electronics, since the McIntosh County landfill can’t take them.

Rotted hoses, cracked cowlings and the rest go where they properly belong.