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PostPosted: May 18, 2009 9:22 pm    Post subject: an idea Reply with quote

Between my dock and the retaining wall the water gets to about 2-5 ft deep and since I have about 50 yards between my dock and my neighbors I kinda want to build a slider or something that I can throw into the shallow water and hit it however, I have NO idea what would be best and most fun and since I'm quessing its kinda personal opinion thing what do YOU guys think I should put and how do I make it?

I attached a TERRIBLE picture of the setup

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PostPosted: May 19, 2009 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think your gonna get alot of dfferent opinions as you said it does come down to personal opinion. I reckon you should go with one of the hydraulic setups in the red bull depth charge video so you can change it to whatever you like at the push of a button!

Nah but seriously depends on your level of building knowledge, they can be quite tricky to make so might be easier to go with something simple like a rainbow to start with and you can always change it up next season. We did a half rainbow and is a good little beginners rail

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PostPosted: May 20, 2009 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK well I honestly have NO idea what a rainbow is and whats a sketch of it?
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PostPosted: May 20, 2009 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=74625&highlight=

The pic in post 4 is a half rainbow, so its a ride on, if you took the pipe down into the water on the other side it would be a full rainbow as it looks kinda like a rainbow... Seemed like the easiest option for us to build at the time due to materials we could get our hands on for cheap and it was fairly simple to build too

Someone else may have an easier idea though?

I saw quite a cool one which was just pallets with blow up floating loungers in the middle to float it then a surface on top. Pretty low but it folded up and you could make it any length you want by adding more pallets.

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PostPosted: May 20, 2009 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It doesnt look to hard and I think I could make something like that fairly easily but what kind of pipe do you use? normaly PVC?
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PostPosted: May 20, 2009 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nah this was some rural pipe they use on farms HDPE not too up with the play but its high pressure so really thick. Just used that as we had a mate who owns a farm and had some spare lengths of it lying around.

From what I've heard normal pvc would work you just want to make sure its reasonably thick so it doesnt crack when you hit it

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