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Here is a tutorial on how to create a giant slip and slide. It takes a couple of friends and me about 3 different nights after work to complete. As with anything, the more you do it the better you will get at it. Truth be told, the end product is so awesome, I would still help put it together even if it took 50 times longer to set up.
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This is a list of the things needed to build this giant slip and slide. Hopefully if you are trying this you have most of these items hanging around somewhere, otherwise it will be an expensive ordeal.
A pond with a big hill leading right into it
A few free nights and 1 free day
Steel posts. We used 24 of them
Post pounder
100x20 ft 8mil thick sheet of plastic
A couple old blocks of wood (2x8, 2x6, anything will really work)
4 metal stakes or rebar about a foot long
2 round bales, or something else heavy to keep the plastic from sliding (a tractor to move them too)
Tires, we used somewhere around 20
A whole bunch of wire
Drill and 3/8" or 1/4" drill bit and a drill bit big enough for your stakes/rebar
120 feet of 2 inch PVC pipe
9 straight PVC connectors
2 90 degree PVC connectors
1 cap for the end of the 2 inch PVC pipe
Pipe cleaner and glue
Sump pump
2 inch hose from pump to PVC pipe and 2 hose clamps
Hose from pump to pond
A bush hog helps too
A pond with a big hill leading right into it
A few free nights and 1 free day
Steel posts. We used 24 of them
Post pounder
100x20 ft 8mil thick sheet of plastic
A couple old blocks of wood (2x8, 2x6, anything will really work)
4 metal stakes or rebar about a foot long
2 round bales, or something else heavy to keep the plastic from sliding (a tractor to move them too)
Tires, we used somewhere around 20
A whole bunch of wire
Drill and 3/8" or 1/4" drill bit and a drill bit big enough for your stakes/rebar
120 feet of 2 inch PVC pipe
9 straight PVC connectors
2 90 degree PVC connectors
1 cap for the end of the 2 inch PVC pipe
Pipe cleaner and glue
Sump pump
2 inch hose from pump to PVC pipe and 2 hose clamps
Hose from pump to pond
A bush hog helps too
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World's widest slip and slide -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF_OQuu3Ap0&feature=relmfu
In your materials used, it might be important to note you're referring to 8 "mil" (thousandths of an inch) plastic not 8mm plastic, as 8mm is nearly a centimeter thick...
looks like a LOT of fun!
A good day to you all, sliders and slideroos.
I'll bet any amount that the lawsuit comments are all from Americans who live in large cities.
Can't we all just have a little fun?
Yeah. I think a couple of country boys making the most out of a hill near a pond is going to be A-OKAY.
AwesomeKitteh - If you take 5 days to make this, and then hurt yourself--what were YOU thinking during those 5 days? I don't think any judge would hold someone on the internet responsible for a project that takes 5 days to assemble and then they hurt themselves. Plus, they tell you to use the innertube.
Title: WHAM-O Backyard Water Slides Are Dangerous For Adults And Teenagers
See: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml93/93076.html
-Mike
Then those who said mind your buisiness as they gleefully slid down the track only to wake up in a fracture ward want to sue. They may need to since they can no longer work or play or barely breathe on their own.
I think this is a great inspired instructable, but the gent who posted th ewarning brings a great point. You are responsible and it will be your fault. If you cause your kid to be a quad or die , it is your fault. And no one should be able to sue, cause the danger is always there, and you chose to do it or let your kid do it.
We had a neighbor lose his house over a pool accident. On LI a pair of idiot parents ignored medical advise and let their kid with HCM play football on a team. Now training on a team is NOT the same as on a sandlot team. His heart popped on a beautiful day. The parents said"we couldn't stop him from playing he loved it he was 13" ghee not really. To be on a team around here you mus have the cash for the togs and be driven everywhere, school teams require a MD clearence, (just change MD's to get a clean one).
In HCM one wall gets huge in the heart. Uder stress of activitiy it closes the output valve and the pressure simply over inflates the chamber and the heart pops .
In my opinion they needed to be brought to trial, except they provided a darwinian approach, not unlike the situation discussed here, leading to a very stiff sentence. A dead child (their own) and the knowledge that they could easily have prevented it. A trial with conviction and complete dropping of sentence would have been the smack from society to wake them and other idiots up.
Caveat Emptor and be careful what you wish for.
I have many many many scars all earned from stupid things and a few from things outside my control, as a kid and adult. I never blamed another for my stupidity.
still a great instructable, but maybe one might rethink this before doing it. The idea from the US goverment is that size/age matters. Little kids do not have the issues the adults and teens do.
It is a sheet of plastic, with water sprayed on it. That's all that it is. What you want to do with it afterwards is entirely up to your own judgement.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
I have to keep reminding myself that there is something in these people, that has been lost. The childlike wonder of finding out new,( and a lot of times) better ways to do things.
These people obviously HAVE to constantly prove to themselves that they are smarter than all of us. We poor fools, who like to take things in stride and just enjoy sharing knowledge for its own simple state, rely on these people to save us from our stupid selves.
I don't know how I made it to the age of 50, without these people.
Now I think I'll go jump on a slip and slide and have some fun!
Hang in there, buddy!
Needless to say he stopped talking to me as well as a couple of other guys cause we all said the same thing. And until he retired he never spoke to that neighbor again and his kid never ever played with him again.
But I stil lthink this is a great instructable, but perhaps only for kids cause kids under 12 years old are more flexible. At my age I might try this once or twice cuz it looks like its a hoot, but I doubt I would do it after that. (my chioce). I take my kids to amusement parks and only go on a very few rides, cause when I get off them I feel my joints, and I am not that old. But I assume the risk, and thus I don't . Pity now that I can afford rollers I seldom go on them anymore. We love Hershy Park and Canobie lake,(New England).
have a slidey day (safely)
Nope, home made COMPLETELY SAFE AND IN NO WAY INFRINGING ON COPYRIGHT plastic sheeting laid down with water spraying over it.
Another poster stated and posted a link on how dangerous these are.
Thing is he sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
what he didn't mention the real reason for the injuries... The original "Slip-N-Slide" was and is designed for KIDS ONLY.. What that means NO ADULTS or TEENAGERS TO USE IT.. Why? Because common sense is and seems way too little is IT IS TOO SHORT, and Too SMALL.. For a full grown individual.. This means you get up to full speed just in time to run out of the sliding surface and hit the ground - instant stop with injurious results... I was able to see that and also my friends.. THAT is why we made our own out of that heavy black plastic used by land scapers.
I am a"good-Ol Boy" and most of us were raised with the ability to use common sense. This means you don't get a running start and hit the plastic that is most time only ten feet long. Same as you don't put on a football helmet and put your head through or try to a wall without any consequences..
Also, great idea; Now I have something to waste my time with on a sunny day :D
Well, one of the events involved a HUGE piece of plastic stretched across a field. You divided your team in half. One half on one side of the plastic about 20 yards away, and the other on the other side about the same distance. The base fire department had a pump truck spray a continuous stream of water on the plastic. When they sounded the siren, one of the team members would run full speed across the field, slide across the plastic, pop up running on the other side, sprint another 20 yards, and hand a baton off to the next team member. There were eight teams all running and sliding at the same time. Like I said, it was a HUGE piece of plastic. This was kind of like a slip and slide relay race.
Best time I ever had! They couldn't get us off the thing once the race was over!
As for the lawsuits, save one of those metal poles for the lawsuit junkies, and you know where they can put it. Actually, this also sounds like a really nasty and uncomfortable ending...
How does the 8 mil plastic hold up with repeated use? Seems like it might be a little thin, as most plastic bags (ie: Zip lock) are no more than 4-6 mil.
Thanks so much!
great instructable
Excellent idea; I know what I'm doing for my kids soon. :)