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PostPosted: Nov 24, 2004 6:07 pm    Post subject: rail supports Reply with quote

I'm making up plans to build an a-frame and and flatbar, but I needed some info ont he best way to support it. It's going to stick in the ground, not float. I helped build one before and we just stuck 2x4's in the mud, with angled pieces underwater that stuck in for more support. I've been seeing ones using those fenceposts for support though, and wondered if that would be good to use. im using 2x4's or 2x6's to build the length of the rail, with trex or fiberon on the top. a frame im thinking 10 feet up/down and 15 foot middle, probably 20 feet for the flatbar. Just wondered if anyones used that fence post for supports and how solid it was after you installed the rail

tell me what ya think!




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PostPosted: Nov 24, 2004 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's a better one



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PostPosted: Nov 24, 2004 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks, jerry seinfeld
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We use fence posts with ours and I woldn't do it any other way. They are strong and are easy to drive into the ground.

You can go to a hardware store and pick up a fence post driver to really make it easy. That is a heavy tube with handles that slips over the post and you lift it up and down to drive the post in the ground. Just be careful not to mash the ends out.
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave Barousse,
Or if you have a house close enough you can use a long piece of pvc pipe connected to a hose to make the wholes. Works supper fast,
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vance wrote:
Dave Barousse,
Or if you have a house close enough you can use a long piece of pvc pipe connected to a hose to make the wholes. Works supper fast,


Yeah, that also worked great. We would actually use fat sack pumps from the boat.
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vance I dont really understand. You put the hose in the PVC pipe to make a hole on the lakebed? Then put the supports in the holes? I assume this is only for wooden supports, since driving down a fencepost would be a breeze. I got a hose right near the water, but i dont really understand this
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heres the plans for my rail next year.



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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ya thats sick...u gap from the first part then land up at the top and do the loop Birthday
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

s34n,

Theres a connector you have to buy if i remember right, one end you connect the hose in the other you connect the pipe into. Then you use the water rushing out of the pipe to make the hole.
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PostPosted: Nov 25, 2004 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ahhh i see, so its just easier to do it that way then smashing it with a sledgehammer
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PostPosted: Jul 14, 2005 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave Barousse, How do you connect the fence posts to the wood (the long 2x6 that is under the fiberon)?
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PostPosted: Jul 15, 2005 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

my friend and i are slapping this beast together tommorow. we're useing 4x4's for the posts and just making points on the ends and driving them into the mud.



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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok so we found out that hammering them in doesnt work. so we got some of that flexable black gutter hose and attached it to the back of the jet on the jet ski and had someone hold the jet ski still and another person use the hose to make the holes it took like 2 sec to dig the holes that way. The thing is solid as a rock its definatly not coming out.
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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave Barousse wrote:
We use fence posts with ours and I woldn't do it any other way. They are strong and are easy to drive into the ground.


what kind of fence posts? are they the ones you use on plain old chain link fence? i dont think they would last too long in salt water but would be alot easier to drive in.
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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmmm well all i can i say is that the loopty loo is the pimp shizzle... and i think im gonna make my next one with metal fence posts and trex..
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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nick Taylor, at home depot or something like that they have these things called Adustable Wood Adapter Clamps. i think thats what dave used. check this thread

http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=200

EDIT:: picture of one

http://www.fence-it.com/images/Adjustable%20Adapter.jpg

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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

we make our rails out of saw horses
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PostPosted: Jul 18, 2005 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

galvanized? will that rust? im not really sure.
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PostPosted: Jul 19, 2005 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea galvanized will eventualy rust but not as fast. wood is really the way to go. once all the algie and barnicals and crap like that start ataching to the wood it will help to preserve it in the water. The stuff that actualy goes first is the stuff above the water.
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