My community has a small boat ramp. It’s long in the tooth and has a couple of pot holes in it large and deep enough (10″ dia by 4-6″deep) to get a trailer tire stuck in. A truck can push a trailer through, but people launching small trailered boats by hand get hung up in the holes. Anyway, I’m looking to effect a repair until we can afford a new ramp. I’m looking for ideas on what to use. It has to stick to the existing concrete obviously, but also has to dry before the tide comes in! Any thoughts?
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http://www.revereproducts.com
This stuff is at Home Depot
http://www.rapidset.com/index.html
If it is just a couple of holes, Do what road crews do, use large thick plates of steel over them, you can probably pick it up pretty cheap and little labor other then breaking your back and possibly smashing a finger.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
Oh boy...wet smooth steel plates on an incline...possibly a few beers...Do it right, or do it twice.
ROFLMAO hey pass one of them beers!
I haven't seen a boat ramp with a big enough incline to scare me when wet and if your drinking and driving that boat, you probably deserve to at least fall on your ####.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
It's not the wet ramp that causes the problems, it the wet steel plate. And you know that there will be some young & dumb college kids that get a little tanked on a Saturday afternoon, race around the lake scaring the bejabbers out of civilized folk, and then not look where they are walking as they try to get the boat on the trailer. And then sue the city for negligence :)
Do it right, or do it twice.
Edited 6/6/2003 6:35:58 PM ET by ELCID72