slaughter box ?

ohsix · Posted: Jan 30, 2003 8:31 pm Post subject: slaughter box ?

some of my friends just scored a box like this. i think its called a slaughter box? i may be wrong. but does anyone else have one and how did you float it? the dude that gave it away was using it for skateboarding but his parents got tired of it taking up room.

it looks like this but only has the slider in the middle.

Kai · Soul Rider Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 287

yea its a slaughter box, try to use drums to float it

ohsix · Posted: Jan 30, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

i figured we'd use drums to float it and something to hold it in place. how many drums do you think? and what else needs to be done to it to make it suitable for water?

Kai · Soul Rider Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 287

my guess would be as good as yours for how many drums... maybe 6 one on each corner then two in the middle. if its made out of wood definitly coat it with something so it wont fall apart

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

It originally wasn't called the "Slaughterbox", interestingly enough. It didn't really have a name, so it was called the Slider Box. When it was introduced, Bruce Robson (aussie) was announcing the Pro Tour and VTC events. He threw in a pretty heavy australian accent, and everyone heard Slider as slaughter...so it stuck. I have to admit, though, the name is pretty apt as I've seen many people get worked on it. Leslie Kent has taken some nasty spills on it, among others.

Kai · Soul Rider Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 287

mike were you talking about that one malibu competition last summer where she kept eating it ? i remember someone was telling me about that. how she would just take endless beatings

derrick lenz · Posted: Jan 30, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

hey wes i would use styrafoam blocks to float it instead of barrels. that's what we use at the ski ranch and i think that the foam is more stable than barrels. i don't know where to get that stuff from but i could find out if you'd like

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

Kai,

Yep! That's one of the times...Malibu Just Ride in High Point, NC. She charged the slaughterbox like crazy one time, and just got beat...slid down the flat part on her face. She was OK, and on her next two passes she did the exact same thing...but she still charged it hard on each attempt.

I don't know if you remember it, but also at the Malibu Just Ride stop there Daniel Watkins slid down the top part on his face...I got a close up photo of it with a camera I had mounted on the slider and it ran across two pages in WBM =P. That box has issued some serious beatings...

Shawn Madison · Posted: Jan 30, 2003 11:04 pm Post subject:

How about Darin Shapiro's wrist gash on the PT in Indy last year? You will have to anchor that sucker down too!

kurtboarder69 · Newbie Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2 City: Newcastle

Yeah man, they are called slaughters. I have one I float it with old milk bottles and foam. I just got it from the dump and it works great. take my suggestion and use it. Wink

electricsnow · Posted: Jan 31, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject:

shouldn't it be called a fun box? that's what they're called in skateboarding and that's where the idea was taken from. Slaughter box is totally cheesy. crazy kids...

nick e[V]ans · Posted: Feb 01, 2003 2:43 am Post subject:

hey mike have you still got those pics?? if so could you post some of them?
thanks
nick

pjdave · Posted: Feb 03, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject:

Heres a pic of our fun box(from the back) Its floated on stryofoam block sanwiched between tin ( coldroom paneling ) there are 3 blocks 200mm thick and 1200mm wide, thewhole box is 6 meters long with a 10 meter rail

Sean_Brinston · Posted: Feb 04, 2003 8:36 am Post subject:

hey mike was that the one where it sayed like forget the real thing Daniel watkins shows us his nosepress or smthin like that? Lokked like it hurt a litle. Anyone got plans of how they built theres?

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

Sean,

Yeah, that's the photo...I was trying to find my copy of WBM with that shot in it so I could scan it and post it but i haven't found it yet.