wakeboard winch... end of uni year project..

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Mon May 09, 2011 11:42 pm

well basically end of last year at uni myself and another member on here stewbaru came up with the idea and built a "wakeboard winch" he wanted it as an alternative to a boat as its alot cheaper and i wanted it to tow into waves at a beach.. basically thought i'd chuck it up here and see what you boys thought as i'm doing everything possible to avoid studying at the moment

here's a few pictures of it in action:

and there is a few video's from when we first tested her out in the lake out the front of my house and nearby canning vale where we got into a heated argument with a young real estate agent trying to sell a house and our antics weren't helping but we insisted that nearby water sports facilities would only drive up the house price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzmNsIB ... re=related

and one of me falling into questionable water in canning vale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKqFyIqC ... re=related

feel free to leave some feedback

stewbaru · Post by **stewbaru** » Tue May 10, 2011 12:07 am

Hahahaha next one to be powered by the ea82 from the touring wagon

olddog642 · Post by **olddog642** » Tue May 10, 2011 12:37 am

Good one fellas' looks like you had some fun and glad to hear you stood up to the real estate jerk
Keep on playing
Hylton:twisted:

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue May 10, 2011 8:44 am

nice stuff guys it is just what Perth needs for those summer days when the Indian Lake turns Triggs into a 1 foot southwest slushbowl and there are still 30 people to the square metre in the water.

I hope you put some sort of licensing on this

TOONGA

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Tue May 10, 2011 12:08 pm

Thats cool...now all you need to do is build a big enough spud gun to get your tow rope back across the lake:)

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Tue May 10, 2011 2:59 pm

awesome. well done

i would have loved one of those as a kid

Post by **Alex** » Tue May 10, 2011 3:21 pm

awesome, but does if breaks down alot, id look at removing the apple sticker, anything with that logo on it tends to crap itself quickly

also, how do you anchor it down into the ground?

alex

stewbaru · Post by **stewbaru** » Tue May 10, 2011 4:27 pm

T'subaru wrote:Thats cool...now all you need to do is build a big enough spud gun to get your tow rope back across the lake:)

Haha yeah worst part is walking it around

Alex wrote:awesome, but does if breaks down alot, id look at removing the apple sticker, anything with that logo on it tends to crap itself quickly

also, how do you anchor it down into the ground?

alex

Well ahh... stand on the back of it at the moment haha need to sort that out though, bit dangerous as it is

Nick

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue May 10, 2011 4:29 pm

by the looks of your display picture vincent seems as though you do abit of wakeboarding and nice liberty

mine would look that that if it weren't for uni and the Po'-Po' .... we we're half considering trying to sell one or two to help get through uni but seems like the market for such a thing especially considering they're not really that cheap would be minimal...

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue May 10, 2011 4:31 pm

also we've been on the look out for "drop offs" ( preferrably a change in heaight of greater then a metre) in lakes around the perth area if anyone knows of any above say a metre please fill us in with the details..

Wagonman · Post by **Wagonman** » Tue May 10, 2011 5:08 pm

That is sooo cool.. Any chance of a crazily stupid sand boarding application? haha

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue May 10, 2011 5:13 pm

yeh i mean we've skateboarded behind it... but im not sure how the clutch would go with resistance from sand ... only one way to find out a supppose smash a smash front sprocket on there get it doing 50kph

ahah i have seen something similiar used in place of chairlifts while in switzerland basically just like a winch to pull skiers up the hills.... i suppose you could sand board down a dune and then it could pull you up a less steep bit..? think when either mine or nic's wagon is done might chuck it in the back for a 4wd trip with the boys from over here and see what happens.

woody.t · Post by **woody.t** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:56 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGOsV2Vk ... 2MUkr4EBcf

hahaha thought i might share this for peoples viewing enjoyment.