As many of you know I came up with the idea for open lattice pontoons filled with plastic bottles for flotation while I was waiting for a boat registration at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. That's a friendly but not very nice place where the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers join. There honest George Washington surveyed some land and they sold his share without asking the natives who had lived there for years. When they objected to this spurious deal, Anglo-militia men shot them. This is considered by some to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. A town hero claimed allegiance to a conspiracy to steal land from Spain and then turned against his friends and ratted them out to the Jefferson Administration. Another lie brought temporary fame and then notoriety to the town in the 1900's. Some teens, avoiding righteous grounding after not getting home by their curfew, invented the story of the Moth Man. When the almost new Silver Bridge collapsed and killed about a hundred people, the Moth Man was elevated to prominence as a prophet of coming doom. Certainly a home to cruel innovations.
But neat inventions and innovation have come from here as well. The Indians invented the idea of a river monster, carved in effigy and left on the river banks to discourage rival tribes. Weirs were built out from the land to force the river into deep channels to improve river trade and all sorts of improvements to explosives were developed for the Civil and World wars.
Anyway here are some adaptations to the open lattice float idea.
1. Wire and lath fencing can be secured to 2 by something lumber and then filled with bottles. A quick and cheap method.
2. Cyclone fencing can be secured to wood and then filled with bottles. A quick, stronger and still pretty cheap method.
3. Tubing can be bent into half hoops and used to support fencing, chicken wire, or branches. These can be filled with bottles.
4. 50 or 100 pound onion sacks can be filled with plastic bottles and secured to the underside of a raft platform.
Have a good time, building your home.
But neat inventions and innovation have come from here as well. The Indians invented the idea of a river monster, carved in effigy and left on the river banks to discourage rival tribes. Weirs were built out from the land to force the river into deep channels to improve river trade and all sorts of improvements to explosives were developed for the Civil and World wars.
Anyway here are some adaptations to the open lattice float idea.
1. Wire and lath fencing can be secured to 2 by something lumber and then filled with bottles. A quick and cheap method.
2. Cyclone fencing can be secured to wood and then filled with bottles. A quick, stronger and still pretty cheap method.
3. Tubing can be bent into half hoops and used to support fencing, chicken wire, or branches. These can be filled with bottles.
4. 50 or 100 pound onion sacks can be filled with plastic bottles and secured to the underside of a raft platform.
Have a good time, building your home.
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