Sandbar Slider Video Clip
 By: Dave Barousse
About a week ago, Seth Martin and I went to Home Depot to do some slider material shopping. We found some synthetic wood (plastic wood), some fence post and some really nice brackets to hold it all together. The final piece needed for the slider project was a 20' section of 2x6 lumber. All together, the slider was going to cost around a hundred dollars.
Due to recent events, the slider project was going to be delayed until late August or early September, but that wasn't too long of a wait for Seth. He went back to the Home Depot and purchased all of the materials himself and then he and I assembled it and took it out to the sandbar.
It took us about a total of 20 minutes to set it up and start hitting it. The synthetic wood slides great and was much cheaper than PVC pipe. We started off with a 20' long flat bar and sessioned on that for a while. Seth was on his wakeboard and I was hitting it on my wakeskate.
One of the great things about the way we designed the slider is that it can be positioned different ways. After hitting it as a flatbar for a while, we took the slider base off and drove the poles in some more to make an incline. We then proceeded to session the incline until it started getting dark. We definitely didn't want to be out there when the Sandbar "T" came out to eat dinner.
In a matter of minutes, we had the whole slider disassembled and back in the boat to take home. This isn't the first slider we ever built down in Morgan City, but it was by far the most fun. See the video clip (filmed by Summer Galloway) below for a little taste of the action.
Sandbar Slider Video Clip (Quicktime Movie 1.98MB)
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