You want the king snakes around, pretty mellow snake and they kill and eat moccasins, copperheads, rattlesnakes or any other snake they can get ahold of. They are black with white rings, got couple around my place in NC and they other snakes will stay away. down side is they love turtle eggs.
Spray WD-40 into each cylinder crank the motor over by key or by hand to get it into the rings, let set over night then spray a light oil into each and turn engine over again. Had my one boat merc 305 sit for 8 years and it wouldn't turn over did the above and its been fine and running great for...
I ran heavy cable straight from batteries to back of truck with a heavy duty quick disconnect and put two 30 amp breakers wired in parallel as thats the largest breakers I could get and pulls my 290 DA with no problem.
I got a power winch rated at 5000 lbs and pull my 290 DA on the trailer, they come with a extra pulley and you hook that to boat and run cable thru that back to trailer, doubles your pulling capacity.
You'll probably be better off going out and just getting new ones. That's what I did with mine, was a lot less of a problem. I had to drill and tap new holes in the floor mounting piece but the new pedestal bases covered up the old holes.
Why would it need to be shipped flat? Why can't you roll it and box it? Then when you recieve it lay it out on a flat surface and it will flatten out and lay flat in a couple of hours.
I was wondering what the new style screens and gaskets are? I got same boat as you and need new screens and gaskets on both of my heads and the originals are no longer available.
The wood thicknesses are metric, trees cut here, shipped to canada and/or ever seas processed into plywood and shipped back to us. Been doing that for years. If you can remember there was a big stick about trees being cut on federal land then shipped out of country and processed then sold back...