Building a Kicker

weatherford07 · Guest

Anyone have any Suggestions, on how i would build this bad boy?

Ive searched it on a few pages but nothing in to ful detail. If i put my time into it i want it to be right. Juss trying to see if anyone has bult one before and how they did it.

Punkpenguin · Outlaw Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 224

I think most people use 55 gallon plastic drums and basiclly build the structure around the drum...

OR build the ramp and fix the drum in it so it set on the water right, then anchor it down.

I'm planning to build a slider soon, and my plans so far are to get about 10-15 55 gallon drums, and build a frame around them to hold em all in a line. then we know a guy who makes fiberglass tables, and its like 20% of them turn out with defects, and he throws em out, so we are going to make the top out of his wasted fiberglass.

wakeNskate · Outlaw Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 200 City: Nashville, TN

Here's a few pics of one that we built. It's small and simple, but it's a great starter and it works well.

LakeIolaLuke · Posted: Jul 15, 2007 6:07 am Post subject:

If you can get styrofoam billets, they work better bacuase you can cut and shape them to fit where you need em under the ramp. they're expensive though, so their not economical unless you can get them fro free or cheap. Also, don't go balls to the wall and build it with a 45 degree angle or anything like that. For reference, the cheesewedge at OWC is 4 feet long and 3 feet tall (on the ground), giving it a 36.8 degree angle and is very steep. if you build it much over 30 degrees, it's going to be almost unhittable, unless you can control the pop very very well.

kmagnuss · Posted: Jul 15, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

I built one @ 45 degrees...don't do it. We rode it for about 8 hours straight and landed it maybe 5 times. I would shoot for more along the lines of 30 degrees next time.

weatherford07 · Guest

wakeNskate is that like mateboard for houses? like would u would put on walls in stuff?

nickl011 · Posted: Jul 15, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

weatherford07, I thinks its Trex, composite decking material.

Build one at a 90 degree angle, than post a video, Laughing

wakeNskate · Outlaw Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 200 City: Nashville, TN

It's Trex, got it at home depot. You can't see it in the photos, but we had dock cleats on each corner of the ramp so that we could tie blocks to it for an anchor point. We also ended up mounting 3 large buoys (one under the front and two on the outside edges) on the front of the ramp to help keep that part afloat. We used about a 35 degree angle give or take a few Smile