Portable slider for public lake

patrickengler · Posted: Aug 27, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject: Portable slider for public lake

Hopefully you guys can be of assistance. We are trying to draw up ideas for the most efficient way of getting a decent slider from home to the lake. We board a lake that is fairly well patrolled by DNR so leaving it there is not an option.

Is there a way to make a decent slider without having those huge 55gal buckets?

This will be our first slider so I don't suppose we have to make some huge, extravagent creation......

Thoughts?

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

yeah, that is what we did. just screw a couple pieces of plywood to the jugs and put some tileboard on top of the plywood. anchor the whole thing down and there ya go. a slider!

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 08, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

Yes but wont that have alot of give if you hit it? I don't want something that is going to move around alot if we hit it.....maybe I'm wrong.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Sep 08, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject:

patrickengler, NO, You dont want it to move more then 3" to one side when to hit it

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

it is pretty stable. if you get too far to one side of it you will slide off but that is it.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:

How far does should it be out of the water?

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

with the floats we use it ends up being about a foot and a half.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

I want one!!!

So you just tow it out on the boat and drop it off?

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

They are so much fun. breaks up the monogomy of wake riding. we keep it at our dock and just pullit out when we cant to ride. pretty sweet setup.

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

They are so much fun. breaks up the monogomy of wake riding. we keep it at our dock and just pullit out when we cant to ride. pretty sweet setup.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject:

Ever get harassed by the sherriff?

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

not with this one. my buddy had a stationary one and he had to take it down. we just ride this one out infront of his house. no one really bothers us there.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

Hmm. Maybe it would be more of a weekday slider. Our late gets pretty busy on the weekends. Sherriff is almost a guarantee.

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

that is how ours is too. they are more worried with people drinking than anything else. you never see them on the weekdays though.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject:

Jonesy, I should be able to search and get some diagrams so I can work on building one this winter right?

Jonesy · Outlaw Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 115

they are really easy to build. you can also get one or two of those blow up air mattresses and tie down a couple pieces of plywood with pvc screwed to it and there you go. that one can easily be transported, just deflate and inflate. im sure someone has diagrams up.

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

thats a good idea....cause i have a self inflating mattress!

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Sep 09, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

Jonesy, smart thinking
wouldn't hurt when you fall either

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 12, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

See I was thinking of making that setup for a towable. Then you can put a little hidden compartment for a 6er. Then while boarding you can go at it half-@$$ed and land on the mattress...sit down...rest....crack beer...drink beer...get up...throw tantrum over slider...achieve god-like status...collect the ladies.

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Sep 12, 2004 2:25 pm Post subject:

patrickengler, nice dream Wink

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 14, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:

Sigh....thanks WCR....for bringing me back to reality. Twisted Evil

wkbd · Criminal Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 96 City: houston

i want a slider like that!! Exclamation

wkbd · Criminal Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 96 City: houston

i was thinkin about makin a slider but like camouflaging it and making it permanent

wkbd · Criminal Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 96 City: houston

what Pat Mchelhinney does is he'll just stick some pvc on a boulkhead and spraypaint it black and no one notices it!

patrickengler · Posted: Sep 14, 2004 3:08 pm Post subject:

Clever

Liquid*Force*Rider · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 3:55 pm Post subject:

the paint will get all over the bottem of you board and it will scrap off Wink

but it would work for awhile

willgeorge · Newbie Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 28 City: Maplewood

we made a slider thats 30 foot long, 2 15 ft sections. connected by 2 big clamps and the posts are removable from the actual slider frame so it just all comes apart and we can throw it in the boat. not a bad setup. when we are lazy we just hide it in the woods.