Nick Taylor Rail

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1990

Wakeness450,

nope. if you're careful.

Wakeness450 · Posted: May 21, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject:

urinal mint, sweet i think me and my bros are going to try to copy your setup, with some wood we have to make it cheaper

skateonwater · Backside 180 Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 757

could you tell me like everything you used that looks real nice, slide well???

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1990

it slides fine.

the poles are 1 inch(like 70 inches long i think). the flanges(circle disk things) are also 1".

Synthetic wood(top part), plain wood(bottom part).

finished.

skateonwater · Backside 180 Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 757

thats man, nice going

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

urinal mint, how many feet would you say the legs are buried in the ground?

we bought 10 foot poles and i think they're too long, so i was wondering where i should cut them

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

Gnarly Dancer 42, i would just try them out at 10 feet first.. some spots are softer than others and it usually sinks slowly after hitting it for a while, too.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

lake tarpon, we cant even pound them in because the water we are riding is cheast deep, so the rail standing up is at least 3 feet over our heads. i was wondering if urinal mint knew what would be a good length to have sunk into the ground so its sturdy

Monkeyarms · Posted: May 28, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject:

thats such a sick rail

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

Gnarly Dancer 42, i have the same rail..well kind of.... its a 16ft incline but same set up.. i havent had it in a lake yet, we put it in salt water with mud.. but you want at least 3 foot of the pole in the ground..

nick · Posted: May 28, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject:

Get a ladder. If you sacrifice any length off of the poles, you will make the rail less sturdy.

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1990

72 inches is fine.

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

so we tried out the rail today, and it took us an hour to pound the dang thing in. (we had a small rubber mallet wich looked something like this = Smash

) then my mom brought out the sledgehammer and it was faster, but by then we had the rail in about 3 feet deep into the ground and only about five mins of pounding left. the rail worked good, but was a little short at 16 feet. when we took it out we noticed that the screws were coming out of the wood, and when we pulled up the posts the top of it broke off. Shocked

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1990

Gnarly Dancer 42, wtf?

i had 10lb rubber(with sand in it) sledge hammer. mine was only 12ft. and hammered within 5-10 minutes. of course, i was in very boggy mud and about 5ft water depth.

i was at home depot today and almost bought 24 ft. of trex for my new rail but backed out when i noticed the price for them.

my next rail will be from 16-24 ft. long and maybe double trex like this: ======.

Will update. Sorry to hear it didn't work out that well Gnarly Dancer 42.

McLOVIN · Backside 180 Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1673

urinal mint, so did you think that 12ft is too short?? should i bump it up to 16ft? im getting ready to go to homw depot in about a half an hour. im setting it up tomorrow in m buddies pond! its gunna be sick!

skatefilly · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

i made a 24 ft. ========= double flat guy out of all preasure treated. it was expesnive, probably like 250-300.00 but i deffinately think its a good set up. and will last a long time. but so will the medal. so if you are on a budget that is deffinately a good option.

nick · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

16-24 ft is key.

McLOVIN · Backside 180 Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1673

che blanc, i think ill go with 16ft cuz i gotta be able to put it in my truck

urinal mint · Backside 180 Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 1990

go bigger than 12ft.

12ft. is fun if your funds are limited.

skatefilly, did you use the pole concept like i did with that double wide 24ft rail?

if so, how did it go?

i'm wanting to do a 16ft.+ double wide but am worried if the poles will be stable enough...?

JamesBoardr · Posted: Jun 04, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject:

skatefilly, ill show you how to build really cheap easy rails that are tour worthy when i come up in july