Introduction: Homemade Beer or Baby Float. Chopeira Flutuante.
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About: My favorite quotation is: “All you need in order to accomplish something great is a good idea and not quite enough money.” – Anon I live by that theme, and the ideas just keep coming.
It's summer. It's sizzling hot. It's time to float the river with your family, your fishing pole, and your beer with the all-new, make-it-yourself beer cooler and baby float!
This beer and baby float was designed for my nephew who just became a first-time father, LOVES artisan crafted beer, and lives in a town where a river runs through it.
OK, so it's politically incorrect to float both your beer and your baby at the same time. But it is a great way to float either your baby (with a shade canopy) or your lunch--watermelon, a pack of sandwiches, some sodas--down a lazy river on a hot afternoon.
The video below shows the step-by-step construction of this float.
List of Materials:
Two bicycle wheel rims
Six bicycle spokes and nuts
One bicycle brake pad or large gear
Three pool noodles
A mouse pad
One lumbar support (from the Dollar store)
A scrap of sheer outdoor fabric
Six broom hooks
Six 1 1/4" spacers
Six 2 1/2" screws with lock nuts
Two 1 1/2" screws with lock nuts
One bottle opener
A piece of string
This beer and baby float was designed for my nephew who just became a first-time father, LOVES artisan crafted beer, and lives in a town where a river runs through it.
OK, so it's politically incorrect to float both your beer and your baby at the same time. But it is a great way to float either your baby (with a shade canopy) or your lunch--watermelon, a pack of sandwiches, some sodas--down a lazy river on a hot afternoon.
The video below shows the step-by-step construction of this float.
List of Materials:
Two bicycle wheel rims
Six bicycle spokes and nuts
One bicycle brake pad or large gear
Three pool noodles
A mouse pad
One lumbar support (from the Dollar store)
A scrap of sheer outdoor fabric
Six broom hooks
Six 1 1/4" spacers
Six 2 1/2" screws with lock nuts
Two 1 1/2" screws with lock nuts
One bottle opener
A piece of string
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18 Comments
7 years ago on Introduction
Well, my daughter LOVES cold water... Unfortunately she will no longer fit as she is 6 and the size of an average 10yo!
7 years ago on Introduction
Not a bad idea. You might want to add some sort of mesh on the inner part just in case your little guy starts getting adventurous. You wouldn't want him falling through.
7 years ago on Introduction
did you test the integrity of the device?
8 years ago on Introduction
Always good advice: NEVER LEAVE BEER UNATTENDED IN THE WATER either.
Reply 7 years ago on Introduction
Remember folks, leaving beer unattended is serious alcohol abuse!
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction
And whatever you do, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE REDNECK GENIUSES.
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction
Also good advice: BEER NOT FOR DRINKING WHILE FLOATING. This is just to keep it cool for an overnight camping site at the end of the float. Better yet, make it root beer or ginger beer.
7 years ago
This oh-so-wrong instructable stems from my inability to edit. Keep having to be told less is more...
8 years ago on Introduction
My older Sister is in a wheel chair . I am wondering if there is a way to make a larger one of these, ( no offense but much larger Version )
Reply 7 years ago on Introduction
seem a good idea but i dont think that an adult weights the same as a baby ... you must design it to carry at least 100 kg of weight instead the 10 kg more or less that can weight a baby . also you must think that is more easy to an adult to swim that carrying that thing unless that this adult be a handicapped person
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction
Why not? Where there's a tinkerer, there's a way. : ) I just saw some pool noodles that are twice as thick as the ones used here...
7 years ago on Introduction
Just what everybody needs. A way to stay inebriated while in the water with a baby....Cant wait to see baby flamethrower! ;)
7 years ago on Introduction
so wrong its right.
7 years ago on Introduction
Does it work without the baby? Because I need the one, but not the other...
7 years ago on Introduction
Unless said baby is named Moses and has a pharaoh on his trail. ;-)
FlyingPuppy said: Note of caution: NEVER LEAVE BABY UNATTENDED IN THE WATER.
8 years ago on Introduction
Hahah! This is excellent. When I was very little, we'd go canoeing, and my dad would always makes me sit on the cooler and hold on. He'd say that way he'd never have to decide which to get first if the canoe flipped! I ended up telling my whole class in elementary school about it when the teacher asked me what I did on summer break. She was not very happy with my dad. :P
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction
That's funny. I wonder at what age one learns what is and what isn't PC.
8 years ago on Introduction
haha beer comes before your baby
here we see a true beer lover :)