guess what I am making

[49tandc]

Clothes rack for your TV wardrobe?
Maybe a small pile of metal shavings?


49T&C

 

[jktruck150]

A reverse thingamajig with the extension option.

 

[z28snksknr]

an ever increasing pile of scrap metal

 

[54chevyls1]

Ok, it looks like I won't be able to finish this before I go on vacation, so I will go ahead and tell you what it is. It is nothing exciting, and yes a lot of it is scrap. It is just a rack for storing shoulder pads for my youth football team. These things sell for $300 each and I can build two of them for $40 worth of conduit. Thanks for all the great guesses, I really enjoyed reading them.

 

[e-tek]

Shoulder pad rack for a high school football team.

I heard they cost $300 new, but I bet you could build it for $30.


Winner?

 

[muddyjoe15]

Helping out youth is way cooler then any guesses we made. Great job it looks good!

 

[boseefus402]

Good thing they were gavanized. All that sweat and stank would immediately eat through an unprotected metal!

 

[54chevyls1]

Thanks. Our Youth Football program is one of my passions. We have 150 kids on our 4 teams ranging from 5-14 years old. These racks are just to store the shoulder pads on during the offseason so they are off the floor and keep the proper shape. We now have a lot more pads than we have racks so I volunteered to make some new ones. I couldn't do the bends in my HF pipe kinker, so I had to do them by hand with a conduit bender. They aren't precise or pretty, but they will get the job done. I will take a picture of all the shoulder pads on all of the racks when I get them all finished.

Here is a shot of my 3 boys and my 10-11 year old 2010 Conference Champions:

 

[PeteMoore]

teach them to man up and play without the pads

 

[JC23]

Dang! I wuz gonna guess a big 'ol sippy straw for two...

 

[DYNA BILL]

Well ****. My next guess was gonna be shoulder pad racks.

 

[54chevyls1]

I almost forgot to show you the final product in use.

 

[justanengineer]

Awesome rack...definitely heartwarming to see somone giving back to our youth. I just wish I had more time to do something similar.

 

[Cobra5150]

Got in late. Immediately I know they were shoulder pad racks.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I don't know about those little guys, but when my kid started playing football at age 13 I never knew he could sweat so much and STINK so much ! Those shoulder pads and rib pads got spayed with a lot of Lysol !

 

[cnc-me]

Nice job on the racks.
Would not want to be in that room though.

 

[54chevyls1]

yeah we spray these down before we rack em. It's the pants that the lazy parents never wash that smell so bad.

 

[grego]

You gonna put some wheels on it? That is where the huge cost difference is at.
Nice work btw.

 

[Full Size 66]

Nice rack... OK OK I just had to say it! I do feel sorry for DYNA BILL. He felt the need to bring animals into the garage

 

[kams1973]

Damn...I thought they were going to be sissy bars for radio flyers

 

[Lomotil]

I was going to say headgear for Ozzy's next trip to the orthodontist...

 

[c/o say]

Now that your done with that do the boys have a slead for the linemen. A friend of mine made one up for the team my son played on. The coal mine he worked for donated the steel or did I mean steal.

 

[klhitman]

looks great. i was gonna say a big *** Croquet game! you know with bowling balls and sledgehammers.