Trick step up http://moostrails.blogspot.com/
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- Album
- Moos-building
- Category
- Digging/Building
- Date Posted
- Jan 9, 2011 at 9:22Jan 9, 2011
- Location
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Swansea, Wales
- Trail
- Moos
- Riders
- No one, its winter
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rnangle
(Jan 9, 2011 at 9:33)
that looks rad. kicker looks kinda skecthy though.
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I think I have to agree with mangle on this one Trailboss... I think after a couple of runs you will start to risk going right through that thing! www.pinkbike.com/photo/3443288
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fair enough i havent seen many wooden ramps so i dont have a clue how there meant to be built. i guess we will find out when we start riding it. how thick should the ply be on the riding surface?
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hey dan, i've been admiring your amazing dirt work for quite a while now, and would love to hit those jumps. as for building wooden kickers, we build a fair amount of them here in the rockies, and the first thing i see in regards to the one you built here is a lack of horizantal support through the columns of your kicker. as your columns go from the ground up to the plywood, i would have at least one more set of horizantal braces spanning across them, in truth, i might have designed some diagonal coloumns running from the base into the plywoodof the jump- in an effort to provide strength against the force that the rider will generate as they come into the jump. we never use plywood on our trails- realy we just harvest the wood from the forest- look on my or silent j's photo albums- but hopefully this booter will last as long as your other work does. cheers, obee.
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ok thanks for the advice, there is a frame around the bottom of the uprights its just you cant see it because we buried it a bit to stop the ramp moving. maybe we'll put a horizontal brace half way up the uprights. I didn't build the ramp by the way.
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yeah man it could be work out good, its just a odd way off building one from what ive seen in the past. hope it works out anyway
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yeh i think u should deffinatly put a support on there, like from the shortest horizontal support seen in this pic the one that only shows liek 2 inches, put a piece of wood from there to the middle of the last one, where that other 2x4 is that is the width of the ramp , that would help it out a lot
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I think with another layer of ply wood wouldnt go a miss. Just wodnering how come you didnt build the sides out of play like this? www.pinkbike.com/photo/5027855 Also good job, looks like a pretty sick set up.
haaa