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Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:08 am
by Gumby
I am a race rookie. I have only run two Raingutter Regattas. My most difficult thing is figuring out HOW to empty the water out of the lanes after the race. Any suggestions?

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:29 pm
by Darin McGrew
Last weekend, at a church picnic, someone had a large bucket full of cloth-covered sponge balls. They soak up water, and then act like water balloons, except you don't leave scraps of broken balloons all over the park.

Or you could just use regular household sponges.

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:41 pm
by gpraceman
You can try using a long tube to siphon the water directly outside or a shorter tube to siphon off water to buckets. On the short side, a siphon tube like this should work fine and is inexpensive, http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=93290

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:36 am
by zeezop
If you are going to use a sponge I would suggest Shammy-WOW --- they really do work as well as advertised.

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:55 am
by Rod Turnbull
Add 14 packages of KoolAid and 2 lb of sugar to the water and then hand all the kids straws. :scratching:

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:58 am
by Rod Turnbull
But more seriously something like this would work great and just pump it into the sink.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Giant-MPDP ... B001GCU85S

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:59 am
by Pack212Scouter
We built ours out of 6" PVC pipe. To drain them, we drilled holes in the ends and put hose fittings on. Works awesome.

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:08 am
by Husker
Hard to beat a Wet/Dry Shop-Vac.

Re: Emptying the Gutters After the Race

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:53 am
by pwrd by tungsten
Yep wet dry/vac