Re: Cantelever Kayak Rack?

My canoe rack is made of two 4x6 treated posts stuck in holes in the ground

with treated 2x6 cantilevers bolted to them.  The cantilevers are cut into

long triangles so there's a wide area to bolt through but they are narrow
at 
the end so they can be closer together and not inhibit boats underneath. 
I 
think the racks are at least 20 years old.  I've had to replace a couple
of 
the cantilevers, but the posts are fine.  There is no need to sink the
posts 
in concrete.  Packing the earth back in the hole sup****ts them just fine 
(after all, it will be earth around the concrete if you fill the holes
with 
that).

PVC pipe isn't structural and will eventually break if there's any load on

it.

Many years ago, the termites ate a treated post sup****ting my son's 
basketball hoop.  The post was replaced under warranty.

--Bob Gramann

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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