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GOLD!en, i'm in milliken colorado right now working at the mile high cable park. hoping to move out your way after I finish school in december.

ArcticSkate'n, cheers bro. been looking for a good ex ...

just moved my winch from my rent's house in Illinois out to colorado. anyways the higher elevation is messing with the top end speed and making the 6.5hp Champion engine (honda knock off) really slugg ...

the best way of avoiding this whole situation is do what i did in this thread
http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23753

it makes setting up the rail so much easier

don't know if this has been posted yet but the board looks pretty innovative and not nearly as wide as conventional skates

http://wetsignature.blogspot.com/2009/06/pics-of-new-stick.html

http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23753

works great for the 16' flat rail that we have in about 4 foot of water

def second the amsteel or drop some cash on the bulletline

also with using the chop disc sidewalls keep an eye on them cuz i had the bolts pull through and almost got my buddy

enjoinick, just a little heads up I used to have a spool built the same way, but the bolts (spindles) pulled right through the saw discs almost nailing my friend so keep an eye on that

On buywake.com, under their sick deals they got this "ground-breaking" wakeskate film for 5 dollars (it is vhs, but whatever) . thought i would share the stoke!

http://www.buywake.com/cat ...

Macthc, the driver made sure the rope was tight before giving it throttle and numerous times it would just snap

Steven M, totally would but the funds aren't that large for a college kid right now

dscsk8er55, thank for the link, i couldn't find the 600' spool on there website to save my life, Montgomery, everywhere i've checked for 600' 1/8 amsteel (seattlemarine, go2marine, etc) it would be st ...

DVSKATE, at the end of last summer the 7/64 amsteel would keep breakin on deep water starts going across my buddy's pond, and if i got some rope that would pull across that we could drop a couple rail ...

just a word of caution about the cutting disk spool idea, make sure you use some kind of wheel rim on the inside of the spool or the bolts will pull straight through the cutting disk (voice of experie ...

yeah i have the amsteel, but have had lots of problems with it breaking when deep water starting my 190lb body

With the winch season coming up i wanted to get some new rope for my winch, i have 7/64th amsteel rope on there but had problems of breakage with deep water starts farther than 200-300 feet, does anyo ...

kornhouse, very nice it looks exactly like what i have set up

also since i shred the white stuff, that design works great because you can get flanges for the bottom of the couplings, and use a pie ...

so as i'm sure you are all aware of the deemed nick taylor rail with the pipes and flanges used to support the flat rail. well instead of buying flanges to fit 1" or 1 1/2" diameter pipes, b ...

i am currently going to school out at northern colorado, so this winter should be pretty sick as long as i can find rides to the resorts

i built the side walls of my spool out of diamond plate aluminum with threaded rods as the spindles going across the middle and it's worked great

i fully agree with everyone on here, and my dad is also quite handy and i got him on the build of my winch, great bonding experience, and so many good winch seshs with my bros behind that thing, total ...

i 5th it