Re: Cantelever Kayak Rack?

How about keeping the rack you have and laying concrete patio stones
under it so there's no grass to cut? Or just plant a couple 4 x 4
pressure treated posts directly in the ground and build off them.

>Got a surf ski on order.
>
>Would like to move from this: http://tinyurl.com/2l3mve
>to an outdoor version of this: http://tinyurl.com/3d2way
>
>The idea being to minimize the footprint and make mowing the lawn
>around it easier.
>
>My first thought is to dig two post holes nestled into the line
>of forsythia in the first link, put a vertical length of schedule
>40 PVC in each, pour concrete, saw the PVC off flush at ground
>level, and then insert the rack's vertical members into the PVC.
>
>But what to use for the rack's vertical/horizontal members?
>
>Seems like galvanized plumbing pipe isn't all that structural,
>the threads at connection points would be rust-prone, the inside
>probably isn't galvanized,  and it wouldn't be very flexible in
>terms of adding/relocating cantilevers.
>
>Wood seems like a workable fallback position - albeit subject to
>rot as water ac***ulates in the PVC it's inserted into (there's
>really no hope for drainage holes bc the soil is clay and shale).
>
>Some kind of galvanized square stuff?   They use something like
>that for traffic signs around here, and it seems tb holding up
>pretty well.
>
>Or am I missing some solution that's simpler than the holes in
>the ground - yet minimizes the footprint?
>
>My biggest reservation is that I'll be creating a situation where
>the rack's vertical members are sitting in a pool of water that
>never goes away.
>
>Anybody have some insights?
>-- 
>PeteCresswell