Hey Boys and girs just wondering has anyone built a slider before If so how much did it cost, did you float it?? was it heavy, wat kind of wood did u use??
cheer anything will be sweet!!

hey lads, i found a good instructional video for sliders



hope it helps

thanks boys umm looking at a pine a frame

alumin is great too...

you can get away with floating kickers but sliders not really, much more critical to hit.

Improvise! try using a jetty, a bit more of a challenge and its free!

I may know someone(disclaimer)who made a 15m slider for free. And a 25m for free too. Not too hard to find the materials but it was all possible in a french plumbers van. The most succesful one was 8 borrowed pallets and 4 borrowed highway rails (The M shape ones) And 1 set of old fly lines. 1 box of candles and plywood boards for durability. I broke 3 boards before working out that one.

Knock the top 2 boards of the pallet, Then sit 2 pallets in a A shape. Tie off the bottoms so they dont spread. Lay the M rail on top and tie down onto the X at the top of the pallets. Becomes super stable if you can tie good truckie knots. Wax the top regularly as its way more slippery and will protect it from rusting. Rust will eat through any board base.

It will be semipermanent and needs to sit in 10 - 30 cm of water.
You will need 10 people to move it around.
Use 5 line kites cause I saw 4 suicide leashed up people badly injure themselves being dragged into the slider and 2 times looping kites trash it.

If any one asks,,,,,(disclaimer)its your own idea and you didnt get any ideas from me.

yer mate thats where were going to put it around the ski zone cause its a bit flatter there andyer!! is yours stashed in the dunes!!

ud have to put it near the point because in a sea breeze that beach is wind shadowed, trust me i got caught in it a couple times!! def bring the slider up to pinaroo

Umm surfinboy1991@hotmail.com yer charles in sw that wind shadow is no longer there because of the wind direction!!

Anyone know about the best direction to place sliders to hit? Directly downwind or on a bit of an angle?

Ive hit a few with a wakeboard winch but its pretty easy to find the right direction when you're doing that! Haha

the best angle is the angle that your kite is pulling when your riding. So just have it paralel to your lines. you want to be pulled along it not off it. I was told this by mauricio

it would just depend on what side you are best at hitting it on would it

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Originally posted by bellz

i thought its angled half toward the beach and half down wind if that makes any sence

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Mate that makes absolutely no sense at all haha but cheers for trying.. Haha I'll get it sussed... Still gotta build it too. Should make this summer entertaining anyway!

Got some early footage of my mate's winch setup that we set up last summer if anyone cares to watch it... Pretty fun for practicing rails

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=8766490

Yer tom where u goin to put ur slider once u build it??

Bellz I'll be putting it in Australind out the front of my oldies house.

At the start of summer should be able to drive a car out early at low tide. Then i'll just dump it on the sand and wait til the arvo... hahaha should be fun... Dunno what the council will have to say about it tho haha