Homemade Pontoon Boat 3

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  @613Builds · 8 years ago

  i started building one, framed a 6x12 platform today.  i should have the barrels next week.  i plan on some cool stow and go storage in the floor and more cool stuff like shade canopy and possibly aluminum rails, maybe a small ferry barge at the front for transporting dirtbikes or quads to islands!

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• TH

  @thomasritter3159 · 6 years ago

  If you run into trouble with the drums collapsing you might try to pick up some cheap valve stems from the auto parts store and use a 12-volt air compressor to put about 10 lb of pressure in each drum. Be sure of course to locate the valve stem on the drum on the upper side. 10 lb of pressure will be plenty enough to keep the drums from collapsing when the temperature change.

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  @jim9337 · 1 year ago

  Love the Jimmy Buffet song in the back ground Nice touch.

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  @DB-thats-me · 10 years ago

  If you ever unstrap the barrels, the only suggestion (tweak) I would offer is to set them with the bung holes horizontal to the waterline.  Unless well loaded they remain out of the water. If you load below half barrel, the barrels will partially pressurize thus help to keep any seepage out.  Great project.

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  @DoushBag419 · 2 years ago

  97° out means those sealed barrels have expanded before you nailed down the strap so once you put your raft in the water those drums will return to a normal diameter and your straps may not be tight anymore but as a builder seeing how there locked in they still won't come out.

• LU

  @lucianoguerra9013 · 8 years ago (edited)

  Now this guy knows what's his doing. Good old american know how. Thank you buddy. I hope you post when you complete it and get it in the water.

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  @redwood9741 · 6 years ago

  You can get the barrels from a towns water treatment plant..usually about 25 bucks per.

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  @watahyahknow · 9 years ago (edited)

  seen on one build that the temperature changes make the air in the barrels contract and expand , think it will help if you drill a tiny 2 mm hole in each cap to alow for this , make the hole small enough so air can go in and out but water can&apos;t , hole needs to be on the top when you strap the barrels under the deck offcourse<br><br>the labels will desolve pretty fast once there soaking in the water

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  @TheKyleNetwork · 11 years ago

  You may want to put some sort of cone or wedge on one end of the pontoons to cut through the water better. Might help with navigation.

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  @willieboy8798 · 8 years ago

  I dont think I would have thought of the channel locks use in that way, bravo!

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  @ricladouceur6202 · 2 years ago

  What you don&apos;t want is a drum used in corrosive service for flotation.

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  @mrtodd5608 · 9 years ago

  looks like it will last till the first storm. I&apos;d wear a life jacket

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