How Do You Build A Recreational Lake Raft?
If you’re like most people, you dream of spending your summers floating on a raft, Tom Sawyer style. It really isn’t that difficult to build your own raft, and you can do it with just a few mostly “found” materials. Rafts are great fun if you have a lake nearby, and can be used for just kicking back and relaxing, or as a platform for fishing or swimming. Cut about eight dry logs, each about 12 feet long and 12 inches in diameter and two smaller logs, approximately 8 feet long about 5 inches in diameter. Lay the longer logs side by side until the raft is about 7 feet by 12 feet. Trim the ends to make the logs fairly equal if necessary. Use the hatchet and measuring tape to cut notches 18 inches from each end of the logs. The notches should be an approximate square shape, but the square will be slighter wider at the inside edge so that it can hold the crosspieces in piece snugly. Line up all of the logs so that the notches are all even. Trim the smaller logs lengthwise to make triangular
