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It's really stable. You can stand right in the edge until the very second you fall off and it doesn't move at all, and the sudden shift in weight poses no danger of making it capsize.
I heard that someplace.
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It's really stable. You can stand right in the edge until the very second you fall off and it doesn't move at all, and the sudden shift in weight poses no danger of making it capsize.
I heard that someplace.
Duck
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You are only one of three people who have ever fallen off.
Brian fell off once because he was standing on the front edge pissing into the river and I slammed the trolling motor into reverse.
Another guy fell off because he simply passed out drunk while sitting on a chair.
Yes you're not the first one to fall off that way. Just the 2nd and 3rd.
Actually three of us fell off of a single 4x8 raft once because we were standing on it and started drifting away from shore and the 4th guy thought we were going to leave without him and he ran & jumped & his feet pushed the raft out from under us.
So alcohol, dumbfuckery and intentional pranks are the only causes so far.
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
I don't want to float down the river on a pile of napalm.
Just don't forget the marshmallows!
Duck
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Just don't forget the marshmallows!
Duck
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River is high. Had to assemble the raft and walk it along "shore" and feed it under the bridge and tie it up, and hand everything over the railing while some drunk guy who looks like Sam Elliot was getting in the way trying to "help".
My dad's in the hospital and my nobody else except me and him can drive 3 on the tree.. So I had to leave Brian, his dad and two kids on the bridge while I went home and now my mom's bringing me back in the car.
She's driving so she can learn the route in case she has to pick us up Sunday.
Or tonight if we can't find a camping spot that ain't flooded.
Shit, I just remembered she can't drive at night.
My dad's in the hospital and my nobody else except me and him can drive 3 on the tree.. So I had to leave Brian, his dad and two kids on the bridge while I went home and now my mom's bringing me back in the car.
She's driving so she can learn the route in case she has to pick us up Sunday.
Or tonight if we can't find a camping spot that ain't flooded.
Shit, I just remembered she can't drive at night.
Duck
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We have to wait until it's time to sleep before we put up the tent because the space for the tent is currently the hangout spot.
The river bed has no slope... Meaning one inch from shore it's like 6 feet deep. LMAO
But I got one battery from 12.3 standing volts up to 12.8 in about ten minutes with the generator. It must've been feeding it a hell of a lot of amps cuz I was running it on speeds 4 and 5 for about three miles. Including the ten minutes we were stuck on a fallen tree.
Can't unload the raft. Half the shit has to stay on it but I'm probably going to move stuff around and sleep on it. We brought two tents but there's only room for one.
The river bed has no slope... Meaning one inch from shore it's like 6 feet deep. LMAO
But I got one battery from 12.3 standing volts up to 12.8 in about ten minutes with the generator. It must've been feeding it a hell of a lot of amps cuz I was running it on speeds 4 and 5 for about three miles. Including the ten minutes we were stuck on a fallen tree.
Can't unload the raft. Half the shit has to stay on it but I'm probably going to move stuff around and sleep on it. We brought two tents but there's only room for one.
Duck
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Oh forgot to mention... We have 76 cans of beer. The cooler is so heavy it takes two of us to carry it.
So yeah.... We're on a 10x20 ft island in the middle of a river at flood stage, 6 inches higher than the water which is deeper than the length of an oar immediately next to land, using a small charcoal grill as a fire pit burning dry stuff we had to send the 11 year old up a tree to break off.
The 7 year old is whining non-stop and some asshole in a fishing boat keeps going by yelling "HILLBILLIES"....
But we have plenty of beer.
And tunes...
So yeah.... We're on a 10x20 ft island in the middle of a river at flood stage, 6 inches higher than the water which is deeper than the length of an oar immediately next to land, using a small charcoal grill as a fire pit burning dry stuff we had to send the 11 year old up a tree to break off.
The 7 year old is whining non-stop and some asshole in a fishing boat keeps going by yelling "HILLBILLIES"....
But we have plenty of beer.
And tunes...
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Oh, That is rich! secular division amongst Rednecks, hillbillies and trailer park folk.
Duck
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Man I wish I could upload pics.
This tent is LITERALLY bigger than the island. Three sides of the tent are hanging off the edge of the island.
LMFAO.
The 7 year old is even laughing now.
I really wish we'd not brought the kids though. The only reason we set up the tent this early is because they wouldn't stop whining and crying about wanting to go to sleep.
This tent is LITERALLY bigger than the island. Three sides of the tent are hanging off the edge of the island.
LMFAO.
The 7 year old is even laughing now.
I really wish we'd not brought the kids though. The only reason we set up the tent this early is because they wouldn't stop whining and crying about wanting to go to sleep.
Keendriver
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Well....looks like the raft is plenty sea worthy.
My apologies.....
My apologies.....
ironpony
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Duck
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That was my rule. The little ones wear floaty stiff.Looks like someone is ready ta abandon ship in a hurry. No faith in the boatwright.
Duck
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This was our little island campsite. What you see is all there was. I was standing in a wet marshy area taking this pic.
That's all the space we had, and that little girl was whining like a little girl until we put up the tent.
These guys didn't notice us. I really wish we'd had a banjo:
That's all the space we had, and that little girl was whining like a little girl until we put up the tent.
These guys didn't notice us. I really wish we'd had a banjo:
Duck
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Cutting down trees with a steak knife.. 
Loaded up like the Clampetts
Blueford was totally full and I had to put the trolling motor & cooler on the trailer.
Nobody fell off the raft but Brian fell off the island while we were putting up the tent, then again this morning while he was taking it down.
Loaded up like the Clampetts
Blueford was totally full and I had to put the trolling motor & cooler on the trailer.
Nobody fell off the raft but Brian fell off the island while we were putting up the tent, then again this morning while he was taking it down.
Duck
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The homemade generator did good.
I think it limits it's output rather than try to keep pumping out more amps than it's designed for.
Today I fired it up on a nearly dead battery and when I turned on the trolling motor too, there was no change in the sound of the engine.
But 20 minutes later the battery must've been drawing less amps because the running voltage was up to 14.5
At that point when I simply changed speeds on the motor I could hear the load changing.
I really wish I had both a voltmeter and ammeter. Both digital.
And I wish I could limit the amps it feeds into the batteries too, I don't know how good it is to pump like 50 amps into a deep cycle.
I think it limits it's output rather than try to keep pumping out more amps than it's designed for.
Today I fired it up on a nearly dead battery and when I turned on the trolling motor too, there was no change in the sound of the engine.
But 20 minutes later the battery must've been drawing less amps because the running voltage was up to 14.5
At that point when I simply changed speeds on the motor I could hear the load changing.
I really wish I had both a voltmeter and ammeter. Both digital.
And I wish I could limit the amps it feeds into the batteries too, I don't know how good it is to pump like 50 amps into a deep cycle.
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