good design?

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 11:57 am Post subject: good design?

i got a little bored so i added some extra artwork Very Happy

jackson2170 · Faceplant Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 37

good design for what?

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

a rail...

Brett Leadley · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 12:38 pm Post subject:

mr.foonis,

Built this by myself in about 30 min

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject:

Brett Leadley, exactly what im talkin about. hows it holding up?

Brett Leadley · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

Very well. I use 3x5 landscape timbers for the supports.. usually they are $4 at Home Depot but sometimes on sale for $2

jackson2170 · Faceplant Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 37

how do you get it to stay on the ground? haha sorry im such a noob

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 1:13 pm Post subject:

next time im at the lake ill definately see if i cant get one built

thanks Very Happy

Fryguy · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 3:43 pm Post subject:

be careful on lanier dnr will take it if you dont remove it every day, so wood poles are not the best bet, they stole my tnt style rail last year, mucho sucko

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 22, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject:

the dnr really sucks on lanier. oh well i might use 55 gallon drums ad float it

JIM-BRANTON · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Feb 2009 Posts: 574

the boat looks sick i think you should build that

samcollett · Posted: Jul 28, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

built one the same way with 4x4s. it was sick until wildlife and fisheries made us tear it down.

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

mr.foonis, That's a terrible design...

You put the shark at the end of the rail and the treasure at the beginning. I recommend you switch them. That way, if you fall off the end of the rail, you will land in treasure and not shark.

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 28, 2009 10:54 am Post subject:

GnarShredd, i see your point, however if you don't fall you can be the modern day fonz Laughing

Bcoy · Ollie Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 94 City: Kalamazoo

+1 on building the boat instead of the rail Smash

skimboarder · Posted: Jul 28, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject:

i would go for the tnt or different supports if you're leaving it in the water. but my TNT got stolen last winter from the island we had it hid on Sad

Fryguy · Posted: Jul 28, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

when and if I put another rail on lanier, i will do the tnt style again but i will set a set of short anchor pipes that have a larger id than the od of the riser pipes so you can simply slide the rail into the anchors for use and remove to keep dnr from their usuial theivery. the anchor pipes will prob need some type of cap though to keep the silt from building up in them. just some food for thought.

mr.foonis · Posted: Jul 28, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:

Fryguy, that sounds like a pretty good idea. the only thing i would worry about is the way the water level of the lake goes up and down, especially since there is a new fight for water going on with the corp of engineers, but if you took them out at the end of the season i could see that going very well