Best swim noodles for children according to redditors

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cheapest way would be to buy some of these and a set of these

cut the foam to the width of your cars roof, then lay your yak upside down on top of them, run one strap over the front just behind your windshield and one over the back just in front of your rear window... when you tighten them they do not need to be so tight that it deforms the shape of your hull, just tight enough to keep it from sliding off... it would also be a good idea to tie a chord from the front of the kayak to your front bumper and also one from the rear of the kayak to your rear bumper

An elephant weighs about 3-6.5 tons. which at the high end is roughly 5,900 kilograms

A "jumbo" pool noodle is a 55" long by 3.5" diameter cylinder; converting to centimeters is 139.7 cm x 8.89 cm, solving for volume of a cylinder (V= pi * r^2 * h) ~= 9046.03 cm^3

1 cubic centimeter of volume will support 1 gram of mass, so each of those noodles will support about 9.04 kilograms of mass, minus the weight of the pool noodle (1.6 ounces, or about 45 grams, as it turns out), so we can round down and say that each pool noodle will hold up exactly 9 kilos of elephant.

5,900 / 9 is going to leave us at about 650-ish noodles needed before I punch numbers into a calculator, and indeed the number I get is 655.55555.... so round up and make it a nice even 666 noodles to hold up that elephant comfortably.

At the low end, an Asian elephant can be as small as about 3500kg and thus would need roughly 400-ish noodles; plugging those numbers in, 3500/9 = 388.888.... so rounding up, about 400.

we use a Power Cage - it is not a "DIY" option but it is very sturdy and very easy to camouflage into a boring vanilla piece of fitness equipment when the orkin man is visiting.

note that we've also added some padding using black pool noodles that we slit lengthwise and wrap around the main beams, that adds padding (which has saved me from more than a few bruises) and makes it look a bit less like an industrial weight lifting rack

Someone suggested on another forum to use a pool noodle on the boom arm to keep from getting dents in the headphone cushions. Seems pretty smart, as I had thought about the long-term integrity of the headphones hanging like this.

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Mark Rober [US] built a 1,82m (6ft) long NERF-Blaster. verified on june 22 2016 in Sunnyvale, California, US. he also made enlarged Nerf-bullets from Swimming Noodles [floating foam] and a sink unblocker, which shoots at a speed of over 60km/u (37mph).

If you've got no boat, go to the bridge at Woodland while the tide is either going in or out- not slack tide. You can get about a 1/4 bushel in a couple hours with 15 or 20 pots. I would suggest going early though as it gets crowded sometimes. Once the tide is slack, you have to wait. Poor results...

If you have a boat, and MD isn't an option, the creeks around Woodland are good, closer to the river. Try and go to about 7 feet of water (if you can) in this nasty ass heat. The crabs will be lower because there's a good amount of dissolved oxygen the colder the water gets and also because they won't be in water that's too warm. The Appoquinimink is good too.

One thing you need to know if you're in a boat though is that your floats need to be as small as possible. Delaware River tributaries have a NASTY tidal flow compared to MD, and if you have milk bottles for floats, it will pull trap doors shut or drag nets. The cheapest thing to do is to go to Walmart or the dollar store and buy noodle floats. Then cut them down to like 6 inch sections to use as floats. It's ridiculously cheap compared to using store bought floats, they last a long time, and you have less drag.

Happy hunting, and do try and post your results.

Not to state the obvious (but i will!) Did you try Amazon? A quick check shows a pack of 35 noodles each 55" long for $60 from Amazon Prime. ( https://www.amazon.com/SwimWays-Standard-Swim-Noodles-Pack/dp/B01BY1S2US/ref=sr_1_4?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1511912222&sr=8-4&keywords=pool+noodle&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011) Shipping might get you though. You want the this week. We have Prime. I'd say half the time we get the order in two days. Up to you if you wanna chance it and take the gamble or not.

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I select super soakers as the weapon, and foam noodles as a backup.

I've been thinking about this for a little now and this is probably how I'd approach it:

I'd get a single piece of pipe however tall you want it. The first types that come to mind are galvanized fence posts, galvanized conduit or even metal plumbing pipes. I would then use something like a 5 gallon bucket filled with cement and place the pipe in the center of it so it could cure it set up. Kind like this but as tall as you'd want it. Then I would grab something similar to this that would become the mount for each target. I would use a thumb screw and a nut through the opening so you could slide them up and down as you wish. Then grab some sort of tubing or pipe to slide over the square ends. I would make these sections about 1/4-1/3 of the length of each target then slide something like a pool noodle or pipe insulation the remaining 3/4-2/3 to be the actual contact area. It makes sense in my head so hopefully this can help.

*Here's a crappy drawing of what's in my head - http://imgur.com/RowlM0V

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kornkobcom's idea sounds about right, but I would suggest something beefier than a child's vest. They're generally rated for 30-50 pounds, so the weight of the ramp and dog would sink it. Plus, life vests can get pretty pricey. You could probably use a pool noodle, cut into sections and taped/tied together. The buoyancy rating on these ranges from 100-300 pounds, and you can often find them at the dollar store.

As for your other question, MostlyPooping has the right answer. The float will be at water level, so any part of the ramp extending into the pool past the float will be submerged.

Also, bear in mind that the angle of the ramp will be determined by the length from the top to the float and the height of the top of the ramp from the water. For instance, if you build a 4-foot ramp, then position the float one foot from the bottom, the angle of the ramp would be noticeably steeper than if the float were at the bottom. You may want to extend the ramp another foot in order to give your dog a gentler slop to climb, if you think he'd have trouble with the shorter ramp.

Pick up some foam pool noodles, slit them down the side lengthwise and wrap the crib rails?

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As someone who lives in the UK, I don't enjoy the same ironclad protections that prevent the 3 letter agencies from abusing national secruity letters to spy on US citizens.

All the patriotic bullshit aside, I believe Russia would leverage/extort a private company in their jurisdiction if they thought the end result was in their national interest. I also believe the US would do exactly the same.

But I seriously doubt that the security services of either country would target a typical SMB. Lets say the American company who manufactures pool noodles uses Kaspersky. The risk of the FSK using Kaspersky to compromise their network is close to 0.

For "normal" companies, Kaspersky is a solid AV choice...you could do a lot worse. It's decent at stopping malware threats in the real world and it's central management is not horrible. That's better than most AV solutions.

If you are in that super rare breed of company that'd be an interest to a foreign nation state, then sure following this DoD advice totally makes sense.

Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Wacky-Noodles-Floating-Choose-Assorted/dp/B004UHED0C

If the crossbars are wide enough to hold the kayaks side by side, just get some straps and a large pool noodle, slice the noodle length wise, put it around the bar and attach with zome zip ties.

If you need more room, get some J-racks, on my little car I can transport on kayak flat and the second on the J rack.

Love the chest as they're great for handy stuff storage. A fancy fabric draught excluder put along the top of the black couch will hide the steel and make a nice cheap head rest. Or Pipe insulation slit to cover the steel Or a colourful pool noodle to rest your weary head on. Or maybe not!😆

This thread reminded me of this training kit I heard about last winter shortly after getting Sara and Maybelle. Just put it on order so I'll probably get it on Monday or Tuesday. The training stick idea really appeals to me. Seem to recall some discussion of incorporating a training clicker like you'd use for horses or dogs.

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Also saw an aquaponic forum post or a youtube about a swimming pool toy. I thought they were called pool bats but when I google that all the returns seem to be about little-winged mammals. Anyway, these things are brightly colored tubes, two or three feet long and two or three inches in diameter. This guy sliced some up salami style and was using them as little rafts to individually float net cups with plants on the surface of an aquarium. Ever since I saw that I've been thinking of weighing down those slices and using them as hoops at different depths for fish to investigate and swim through. Edit: Here they are.

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Another half-baked idea I've had since getting the girls is using clear plastic PVC pipe in various ways to entertain the three of us. It could just start with just a little food in the middle of a six or eight-inch length of pipe but in my twisted mind, it evolves into 3D mazes with Ys and T's and such. Imagine a 3D rat maze.

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And expanding on that thought. Sometimes aquaponics guys use a U-siphon to connect two tanks and maintain the same water level between them. If a bright and brave fantail goldfish was used to swimming through pipes as discussed above, wouldn't she use that U-siphon like a walking swimming bridge betwixt the tanks?

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Hope this thread has legs. I'll report on the training kit when I get it.

Camo-netting makes great shade and lets most of the wind blow through, so you're much less likely to suffer grommet failure and flapping tarp.

Attach it to something very solid on your vehicle and use something to protect your vehicle's finish if the ropes touch it (or might touch it). Some of the guys in our camp wrap the ropes in pool noodles for that reason.

mudclub is right. Don't waste valuable shade by putting a yurt under it.

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cheapest way? make your own makeshift softracks for cheap. go to walmart, or kmart, or wherever and get a pool noodle and a couple of racheting tie downs. cut the pool noodle in half, and put the two pieces in between the board and your roof. put the tie-downs over the board and through the passenger compartment and cinch them down.