FENDERS

[Jen-in-Wellies]

4 hours ago, lampini said:

Those shops which sell mobility scooters tend to have a pile of old tyres out the back that they're only too happy to get rid of..... an eye bolt through the top makes it neater..

Similarly, the small slick tyres that cart racers use make very good mooring fenders. Nice and wide, so they can take up irregularities in the bank side much better than tube fenders. Not wide enough to cope with the Shroppie shelf unfortunately. For that the floating wheelbarrow wheel idea works well. Anyone, or anywhere that have go-carts should have some worn out ones they are happy to get rid of.

For making holes in tyres for attachment ropes, or eye bolts, I find that a hole saw works better than a conventional drill bit. A drill bit pushes the rubber away as it cuts, so most of the hole closes up afterwards. With a hole saw you get a hole of the diameter you want. They can also cope with the steel reinforcing wire in some tyres.

Jen

[Jerra]

15 hours ago, DandV said:

I  sure wheelbarrow wheels,which we didn't have, whould have been better. But without them we found that dropping our pipe fenders, that we did have, below the cylindrical plastic fenders effective in moderating the Shroppie thunk.

Don

It has worked every time we have tried it as well.   Must have been just lucky.