hows it looking by you? pool pocket this year?I know some of you are holding out, dammit! Post your 2011 projects! Nao!
Not terribly, really poppy when you push into the lip though. The plan is to make the step up to about a 7ft lip, but the clay here in NC is ridiculous. You can basically dig about 6" into it, then you have to let it rain to soften up another 6". And the only other kind of dirt to use is the first 1' of the soil which is super loamy.Looks good, very abrupt?
Pick axe???Not terribly, really poppy when you push into the lip though. The plan is to make the step up to about a 7ft lip, but the clay here in NC is ridiculous. You can basically dig about 6" into it, then you have to let it rain to soften up another 6". And the only other kind of dirt to use is the first 1' of the soil which is super loamy.
You'd be surprised how little that does when the clay is dry, its like trying to pick axe concrete.Pick axe???
yo you need some diggers? i need a new place to dig/ride. the dirt by me is HORRIBLE.I've been diggin' 2 or 3 times a week, about 3-5 hours per session. I don't have a camera though...
and don't be posting no damm pics in this thread!! post them in the 'what is trails' thread!!!
ZOMG LOL I am doing that too. I want to make a half moto track half pump track. There will be a downhill entrance with a triple (for ****s and giggles) and then it will go into a pump track.Just started a pumptrack in my little playground, pics as soon as its finished.
Been ridin a bit of trails recently...
We packed everything 3x last year before the final freeze here,not this year. This year were digging until easter and not wasting any valuable digging time as we are in a drought right now and I cant imagine how dry it will be this spring.
Who ever heard of a flipping drought in the winter...only in NC.
wetting the sand and torching it helps, as do some carpetsSo what I posted pictures of has been destroyed by the owners of the land unfortunately. But life goes on. I started a new set of jumps right in my backyard (where I should have been building in the first place but always thought the dirt was too sandy.)
First dub i just got finished, I will post pics tomorrow.
We got about an inch of heavy rainfall last night, and it all packed down like concrete, i was amazed to go out there this morning and find the lip hard as a rock. Finished the landing for the first dub today.wetting the sand and torching it helps, as do some carpets
Whats up with that? Tell the owners that they shouldn't have bought land where you were building jumps.So what I posted pictures of has been destroyed by the owners of the land unfortunately. But life goes on. I started a new set of jumps right in my backyard (where I should have been building in the first place but always thought the dirt was too sandy.)
First dub i just got finished, I will post pics tomorrow.
Kind of a lame situation. I met the guy who owns the property, and he was totally fine with me building. Told me that he'd have said differently if I hadn't had my helmet and knee pads on, and that I should try to not make too much noise, etc. So I was like "sweet so I will build a bit more", and I started and almost finished the pump track out there. Last week while I was working on the pump track the guys wife came back (nearly obese if not all the way and had that "i'm a redneck and proud of it" attitude) and she didn't want me back there. I said that her husband said it was ok with him. To which she said "I ain give a sh!t what my husband told you", so it was obvious who wore the pants. I argued a bit telling her I worked hard back there and I wear pads and such. But there was no reasoning. She stood there in the woods and waited for me to leave. The next day I went back to get my tools, she was out there with her kids, instructing them to basically kick in every jump. I collected my tools quietly and one of the kids came up to me and asked if I thought they could ever ride this kind of stuff, I said "yea it just takes practice, and always wear your helmet." The mother promptly said "you won't ride these kinds of bikes, boy, this kind of biking is ungodly." To which I replied with a series of very unsavory remarks, and left. I went back there yesterday looking for my hatchet, and she has spray painted every single tree on her property line, and posted about 80 no trespassing signs. I sure know how to make friends.Whats up with that? Tell the owners that they shouldn't have bought land where you were building jumps.
Retaliation will be had, but in what ninja-like way, is not known yet.burn down her house, tell her jesus likes bikes
Done and Done. The latter was part of my "unsavory remarks."Make new trails. Tell her kids that god is not real.
I bet that left an unsavory taste in their mouths! Ha!Done and Done. The latter was part of my "unsavory remarks."