Wheels Anyone

I was wondering if anyone has modernized their tube to include wheels… as in 'Attached' wheels that let you roll the tube to the waters edge, and remain on the tube while you fish. Not that the tube is heavy but with all your gear and fish finders etc… it would make the trip to the water a lot easier.


I'm also curious if anyone has ever added a stabilizer bar to a fish cat or super fat Cat. I think any Good shoe repair place could stitch some open ended patches on top of the canvas tubes and put an appropriate length of plastic or even wood across the front.
Rob

Ya there is a few threads on adding wheels or carts to yoir float tube. Do a search and i will do one also push comes to shove PM ed5000x he is the DIY guy on here. At least i think so he has a wheel on his tube.

It's hard for me to picture that concept. Or I'm a little slow.   I've seen some off the wall stuff on tubes but not a wheel. I need to see this. If y'all get a pic. 

I remember seeing one before but I cannot seem to find it. It was pretty much to where you have two rod racks, one on the right of the tube and one on the left of the tube. Then there was a cross member that goes behind the seat and connects the two rod racks. From that cross member there was another pipe that goes down right in the center behind the seat and there was a wheel on the bottom of that pipe. The wheel permanently stayed there on the one that I saw.

The cadillac of tubes! This is Ed's tube.

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DAAAAAYUUUUM!!!! That's a Coupe De Ville... Sweet set up. I was having a hard time picturing that. Just like a yak then. Great enginuity!!! Plus that rig helps support the tube. Nice:?: 

Yep… that's just what I had in mind… any instructions come along with that… where to buy wheels and axle etc. How it's attached to the tube… What is the tall PVC pipe at the back of the tube for? Sorry I'm having a "Stupid' Day today.

The tall PVC at the back of the tube is for a light for tubing at night

Light for.the night that is the long PVC in the back i will find ed for you.

Took some serious digging but I finally found the tube I was trying to describe. If you look at the tube on the top it was one wheel that comes down the center behind the seat
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Thanks Lolly… any idea how they rigged that? Looks perfect just what I'm looking for… would love some instructions.

I've just seen it a couple times and don't know the exact details to it. For a rough idea refer to post #4 on this thread.

Thanks again Lolly… Yeah I re-read your earlier post… doesn't seem that hard to figure out…

Plenty of us mod our tubes with wheels now. Beats killing ourselves, pain meds, and personal injuries for hauling heavy things.

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Those pics are amazing. Now I grasp the concept. Cool S**t guys!!!

Sorry I am so late I been busy but if you need help let me know I will log in tomorrow and check my email and all the stuff I use was stuff I hard laying around my garage except the PVC

Leo… do those wheels stay on while you fish or do you take em off? Might sound like a stupid question…
Thanks again for posting the pick… You have any instructions to go along with the pic?

Rob, you can do both. They can stay on while you fish, or take off and use as a backrest support. Here's the design layout:

Bottom side, based on In2Deep design:
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Bottom side removed:
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Back rest is not the cross 1.5" PVC pipe, rather, the wheel axle that can be place behind the foam backrest, with a bit of tie down, so just in case you have to pop a really big brown trout:
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Rob: here's the link from IN2DEEP thread...

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Hey Guys,
check out this site, we use these wheels in my industry for just about anything that needs to be dragged out over soft, rough, uneven ground. They are a bit big but because they are, they are pretty stable as a wheelbarrow type wheel. (one instead of two). They are excellent on sand.

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checkit!! (I am definitely going to incorporate them on my new toon!)

     bodfish

bodfish wrote:Hey Guys,
check out this site, we use these wheels in my industry for just about anything that needs to be dragged out over soft, rough, uneven ground. They are a bit big but because they are, they are pretty stable as a wheelbarrow type wheel. (one instead of two). They are excellent on sand.

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checkit!! (I am definitely going to incorporate them on my new toon!)

     bodfish

We have two, one for the beach items when we have fun in the sun and bond fires, and the other is for our kayaks. The best in hauling heavy gears over the sand, hands down. Not good to haul it over hot surfaces over too long of a distant (1/2 mile and more), especially under the California's summer sun and asphalt.

Hey Asian Guy,
Not sure I understand your reference to the hot asphalt? We use these things constantly, on just about every conceivable surface, in every conceivable weather. Never a failure. Have you had trouble?

   bodfish

bodfish, yep, twice. Dead of summer, last August, air was 112°F, asphalt probably in the 120°F+. We rolled about 1/2 mile, hauling a fully loaded cooler, collapsible table, some wood, no more than 110lbs, below the threshold of the 160lbs recommended weight. Right tire went *PPPPSSSHHHH* Discovered the mid line of the tire where the joining occur came literally in halves, after 3 years of usages. Went and order another one, and haven't have any trouble yet for the past 2 years, with load up to the tire recommended weight. But we only travel roughly 500ft, from parking lot to sand, and to fire pit.

Innovative as usual, Leo.
Im not convinced having wheels dragging along is such a good thing. But hauling your tube and moutain of crap a long way sure makes wheels seem a necessity.

Youre my hero.

Not to be the wet blanket here, but, wouldn't the wheels create drag in the water? Now put fins on the side of those wheels and electrify them and you have drive!