My single barrel metal rail

[magic_steve]

made of 100% scrap wood found in my garage and thrown together pretty quickly

here is a pic of how i attached the rail to the wood:

just to give an idea about how i built it:

9 ft long:

the rail itself seems mostly stable for how i put it on the wood. it does have a tiny wobble but it shouldnt be a problem. if wobble does become a problem i could probably fix it with some liquid nails or just by putting some shims on either side.

 

[sKz101]

Looks pretty well done

 

[Jwalk]

thats gunna suck if you lean a little to far one way and your ski clips the supports but other than that nice rail

 

[jmason]

Put some angular supports in there. It'll help prevent wobble too and fro

 

[magic_steve]

the frame itself doesnt wobble, the rail does (and just a little). its just the way i attached to rail to the wood and not how the entire thing is built.

tonight i should hopefully get enough snow to test this thing out and i can make some verdicts; find out what or if it needs anything done to make it legit.

 

[jmason]

In that case, it's the way the rail pipe sits on the flat wood. A way to fix that would be (if you have the time and tools) to cut out a small semi-u shape in the wood that fits the pipe. I don't know if that makes sense, so here's a drawing...

instead of making it like this: (looking head on)

___o____

make it like this:

____o____
U

Pretty much the wood would just have a small groove in it in which the pipe can sit nicely, but not too low. this will help to prevent any wobbling.

Hope that helps.

 

[finnafuckyobitch]

how did u attatch the rail to the wood

 

[jmason]

crap i meant make it like this:

_____o_____
_____U_____

 

[turtleman321]

we hit the rail today and its sick as fuck. so smooth and nice. the pipe has holes drilled in it and a 1x1 in the pipe. so you screw through the 2x4 up through the pipe into the wood inside.

 

[Lineskiah11]

yeah it looks pretty stable. did you clip the 2x4s on the side at all if you started to fall off? that seems like it would be the only issue

 

[magic_steve]

well i only fell like twice and i dont think i clipped the sides, but i might have. im not really too worried about it though, if you clip the 2x4 with your ski you would be going down anyway and i dont think it would make much of difference.