Pointless Projects
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So- I'm down at the big river, at the boat launch ramp. Kicking back, hangin' out, talking with people. Out of the blue a weird idea comes to me (which is where the best ones come from).
At swap meets in southern cal - they sell a lot of odd stuff made out of beer cans. Model biplanes you can hang up on your porch for instance, plain old garage stuff....
I decided to make a boat out of empties to sail across the river to Arkansas. JUST A MODEL BOAT - I'm not going to ride it!
So far it looks like the pic below, the whole thing is made out of beer cans, kebab sticks, and coat hanger wire stuck together with epoxy:
At swap meets in southern cal - they sell a lot of odd stuff made out of beer cans. Model biplanes you can hang up on your porch for instance, plain old garage stuff....
I decided to make a boat out of empties to sail across the river to Arkansas. JUST A MODEL BOAT - I'm not going to ride it!
So far it looks like the pic below, the whole thing is made out of beer cans, kebab sticks, and coat hanger wire stuck together with epoxy:
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Originally Posted by King Triton
Now thats funny! Good thing you dont have a drinking problem,you would be building a houseboat! 
Who says I don't or won't??? Amazing things can be done with composite materials. It just takes someone very strange to go there.
Since each can is in itself a flotation cell, the idea is disturbingly intriguing. You'd have to ruin them ALL in order to sink it.
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Originally Posted by King Triton
Now THATS a lot of beer!
OIL barrels - you dingbat!
But then again....
A "KEG BOAT"?????
No, uh-uhh.
The deposit returns are worth more than the adventure.
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Well,,I dont care what you make it out of,,just hurry up and get it finished. I figure if you make the walls of the houseboat out of bud cans there might be a lot of women who want to ride on the party barge,,,,,count me in!
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Here's something I've wanted to do for awhile...I'd like to buy an old 4X4 truck, rig up either some pontoons or 55 gallon barrels around it. Rig up the wheels with paddles (think river boat) and take it to the lake...
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As a kid I lived near a large lake. I walked up and down the country road picking up empty wiskey/wine bottles (with caps on). I put them in an apple crate and sealed it up and used it as my boat. It was stable after I put a weight on the bottom.