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Aluminium Pontoons - Offers invited.
Lammerlaw  
Posted : Tuesday, 27 December 2011 10:27:08 AM(UTC)
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Sensible offer keeping in mind the cost of sheet Aluminium and the cost of Aluminium welding.

Dimensions 2.5m x 1.5m - each of the tubes of the pontoon are 360 diameter.

Was never made up and completed as the dredge it was planned to be but was used to carry gear up river on by putting an 8hp Briggs and Stratton motor connected to a 3inch Aqualite pump connected to my underwater dredge slung under it like a jet boat - It could power two of us plus the weight of motor, pump, dredger, diving suits and all gear up the river so it takes a fairly heavy load.

Dont ask me what I want but any offers considered - I am sure that it would cost a great deal to make up today.

The Angled aluminium lengths holding the two cylinders together are merely bolted so the size can be altered and redesigned if desired.

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Lammerlaw  
Posted : Monday, 7 January 2013 1:36:34 PM(UTC)
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Still on offer to anyone who wants larger pontoons - had them made years ago out of Aluminium - old fashioned compared with Keenes and modern stuff but never finished for the purpose they were designed - have been used as floats in one of the major rivers but never for purpose intended.

Any sensible and realistic offers considered - each pontoon float consists of a full eight foot by four four sheet of aluminium and it cost a small fortune back then to be welded together by a professional boat builder.
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Posted : Monday, 7 January 2013 10:16:35 PM(UTC)
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I was woundering if you still had them...having seen them parked up and looking very unloved !...they would be perfict for a heavy duty 6'' could probably put a small car engine on there;))
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