Re: Cantelever Kayak Rack?

On Dec 23, 6:40 pm, Siskuwihane <Siskuwih...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Dec 23, 4:58 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Per Drew Dalgleish:
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> > >How about keeping the rack you have and laying concrete patio stones
> > >under it so there's no grass to cut?
>
> > Insufficient space for one.
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> > >Or just plant a couple 4 x 4
> > >pressure treated posts directly in the ground and build off them.
>
> > That sounds like the least-complicated approach.
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> > What's your take on the pressure-treated posts' live expectancy
> > rot-wise?    The kick in the head would come if they rotted just
> > enough to get weak enough and a wind squall blew the whole thing
> > over.   One of the boats will be a surf ski (i.e. not all that
> > robust when dropped from waist height....)
>
> > My son-in-law-the-farmer just informed me that posts made out of
> > locust will never rot - period.
>
> > So maybe wood posts are the way to go here....
> > --
> > PeteCresswell
>
> You can use the metal post brackets shown here:
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> http://www.handymanwire.com/articles/postbracket.gif
>
> The shelters on our local R2T's use th,m as well as the picnic
> pavilions at the local park, they seem to be working out well.

Here's the full article, it's for a deck, but it could apply to
storage rack too.

http://www.handymanwire.com/articles/decksup****t.html