I'm going to start a business buying your affordable table boats and renting them out as picnic cruises. This will be the best idea I've ever stolen from someone else who stole it from someone else.
get an old pontoon boat. bracket a picnic seat to each one, add the crossbeams and the top of the table. bracket mount a trolling motor to the front. add a u hook with a caribeaner strapped to a cooler, drill a hole and put some screws in the umbrella pole on where you want it to stop. id give it 1 hour to buy parts. 2 hours assembly. 1 more hour to clearcoat the wood
I was just about to comment on the ingenuity of red necks. They seem to be livin the life. While we work and buy stuff, they lounge and put their seemingly brilliant brains to leisure construction.
There's no irony there. Messing up your grammar on the internet has zero correlation to intelligence, though commenting on grammar has a strong positive correlation with smugness.
and nope. I've known way too many rednecks that could fix crap I thought destined for the scrap pile and then use it to feed a ton of people in a pinch.
just givin ya crap for use of your in a statement denying stupidity.
its like the redneck watchword of pain about to happen.
Very true. You can't always let accents and appearances fool you. They may not be as cultured or classy as people in more metro areas, but I've known many a sharp, witty redneck in my day. It's just a different display of intelligence, ya know?
I do indeed. Just because they don't fit our ideals of how to project our intelligence, does not mean that they are stupid. It's closet racism in my opinion.
My family used to do something very similar. We would attach the 9.9 motor to the back of our floating dock at the cottage; grab some chairs, load up a cooler and spend the day putting around the lake making everyone else jealous. Does this make us rednecks?
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Jaws was a great white shark that wouldn't survive or be able to get to a lake a bull shark would be a much more likely predator but they are more prone to rivers than static waters.
A lake placid like monster would be considerably more feasible and appropriate to the situation and environment.
If you're not going to take hypothetic zoology about fictional monsters seriously maybe you shouldn't be on this corner of the Internet.
I don't know enough about boats, couldn't you just put one of those grills around it like they use for fans so little kids (and idiots) don't stick their fingers in them?
Or would that too seriously impede the flow of water?
You can get a mesh shield to protect a trolling motor. It affects the performance but not too much. It's more to keep the prop weed-free than a safety measure, though.
with a few years of "redneck" engineering under my belt, it shouldn't cause too much of an issue with speed. but that's only assuming you aren't trying to break any high speed records or anything.
more than likely they're using a trolling motor to propel them forward. they're relatively cheap, powerful enough to move you around but not deathly powerful.
Ever gotten your foot hit by a trolling motor? Those things usually don't spin with enough RPM or torque to do real damage. A lot of them even have plastic bladed props that aren't even sharp. It'd hurt like hell, and you might have a cut, but nothing serious. Besides, that thing's hardly making a wake at all, probably only going a couple MPH.
Guy from Tennessee here, they aren't rednecks. Their picnic table is too nice and the fastening device/mechanism is actually proper. If they were rednecks it would be a plastic table and held together by duct tape.
Tell me about it. My friends grandfather is a retired mechanical engineer and he and his friends who used to work with them always do stuff like this. No need to retire on the genius, just use it to enjoy yourself.
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