slider

buckthis · Posted: May 21, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject: slider

Here is a slider that was made by one of my students, its held together with bolts and can be transported quite easily.

Mythodikal · Posted: May 21, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject:

how long is that bad boy?

buckthis · Posted: May 21, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

The pvc pipes are 10ft a piece and they are attached together to make a 20ft. slider.

jbt200 · Posted: May 21, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject:

we tried to get out shop teach to let up make one... but he was like that has no use... make sometihgn useful..

savage3221 · Posted: May 21, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:

well he just hasn't seen the light of boarding, and how useful it really is to so many peoples lives

rybassett17 · Addict Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 562 City: Cadillac

I like that idea with the wood inside the pvc ... let us know how it works out

buckthis · Posted: May 27, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject: shop project

how about this one for usefullness?

rybassett17 · Addict Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 562 City: Cadillac

thats sweet... a kid in mine last year built a canoe it took him a while but he made like the whole thing and they let him take it out in the laske across from the school

melvinator · Criminal Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 80 City: caledonia

Thats cool, I teach woodshop here in michigan and I wish I could get some of my kids to make a slider!!! I had one make a wakeskate last year that was pretty cool. I do wakeboard with a few of my students, I can't get the teachers out on the boat, if it is not a team sport they don't care:( On another note one of the guys that I board with has a freshman daughter that wakeboards and snowboards and is really good, as a freshman she has set several school track records, I love to rub that in the coaches faces: "That girl who wakeboards is beating the kids that are in the weight-room for 2 hours every day!!!!"

J_DOGG · Posted: May 28, 2004 8:14 am Post subject:

melvinator, When you are an athlete you are an athlete. Rock on for her!

It's the same reason our Soccer team would kick the crap out of our football team at the winter carnival games in Flag football, floor Hockey and doge ball (killer). We were just better athletes.

Slider -make sure you have them grind down those bolts, I know they don't hang out too far but I'd hate to even rub against one on a crash.

melvinator · Criminal Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 80 City: caledonia

I can't agree more jdogg, I had the star varsity quarterback in my class and he could not balance on a indo board for the life of him:) I run the ski and snowboard club and have had kids show up with broken arms in casts and snowboard in slings. I think skate/snow/wake-boarders must have some tough-gene that other people don't posses, either that or we are all just nuts!!!

andrandre · Soul Rider Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 258 City: Toronto

I wish my school would let me make a slider

holdsworth · Posted: Jun 01, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

my school is too dumb to really know what the heck wakeboarding is...dude some women even called my dad about our old boat we were sellin and it had the sky pole up and she asked if t was a sailboat Laughing

ohio isn't very big on wakeboarding Rolling Eyes

stompin7s · Posted: Jun 01, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

buckthis, sooooo awesome...just chill, teach, and make those little bastards build u sliders. get them out to the lake and give them extra credit if they come slave away for u on the weekend Idea

rybassett17 · Addict Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 562 City: Cadillac

definatly get em out there and just make that their projects you would have a lake full of sliders........ oh my god that would be so awesome.... just like 30 kids slavin away so you would have a new slider every week Twisted Evil

cameron_05 · Outlaw Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 246 City: Cadillac, MI

thats sick....nice and durable

wakeboardpro10 · Outlaw Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 218 City: OC

is that guy lookin at that girls butt Laughing

DavidHoff · Posted: Jun 03, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject:

I was thinking the same exact thing wakeboardpro10.

buckthis · Posted: Aug 09, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: slider

finally put the slider in today, well, lake erie was finally flat this morning

holdsworth · Posted: Aug 09, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

thats surprising....erie wasn't rough Shocked

buckthis · Posted: Aug 09, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject: slider

here it is in use

intotheflats · Posted: Aug 09, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

Did you hit it at all javascript buckthis?

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Aug 09, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

that looks sick

wakeboarder55 · Outlaw Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 202 City: nor cal

thats so tight

buckthis · Posted: Aug 11, 2004 5:46 am Post subject: slider

i didn't hit it yet, i was taking video because i thought there would be some narely crashes

buckthis · Posted: Aug 11, 2004 5:47 am Post subject:

there were

salmon_tacos · Posted: Aug 11, 2004 6:05 am Post subject:

I thought it was woodshop. You let them pass without quarter-rounding all those sharp edges? Laughing

And is that a label I see stapled to on of the boards?!

Also, did they take the edge off the PVC a little where the two sections meet or was the fit perfect? I'd hate to hang up on a little lip right there.

buckthis · Posted: Aug 11, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: slider

the fit was perfect, he turned the peices that connect the two pipes on the wood lathe

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

Tons of fun in Tejas...

Short one is 20ft long

bottom one is 66ft long.

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

This gives you an idea of the distance. This is before the water level went down and made it higher like in the pics above. But you get an idea of the distance and stuff. Lots of fun. Smile

rybassett17 · Addict Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 562 City: Cadillac

Gay ...... its not even off of the water

buckthis · Posted: Aug 12, 2004 10:22 am Post subject:

cheb, that looks awsome, i like the ramp at the end, i believe the ramp is plastic decking board, which will work great, but how did you get the transition from the entrance ramp to the slider? would you have a closer pic of that joint? if we can get that first ramp built we can move it closer to shore and it wont be so gay!
rybassett, it might be gay, but not as gay as your slider

Cheb75 · Outlaw Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Dallas

waker17 · Criminal Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 73 City: Windsor

damn those sliders are sick

dumassonwheels89 · Posted: Aug 15, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject:

Ohio may be not so hot for wakeboarding but you have nothing on the girls at my school. Let me give you an example:
Girl-"Hey do you do that waterboarding thing?"
Me-Its WAKEboarding
Girl-"Oh is that some ghetto term for skiing or something?"
Me-NO Its a sport!
Girl-"Well I kneeboard and tube. Its awesome!"