Building a pump track in the backyard

[sixstringsteve]

 

[Houndoc]

I can probably spare some...in Grantsville

 

[sixstringsteve]

The pump track has been progressing nicely.

 

[GAR]

Dude, that's awesome. You should hold some r/c shortcourse races too!

 

[sixstringsteve]

We had some RCs over on Saturday. It was fun, but pretty hard to keep them on the track. And they tear it up pretty good with all their wheelspin.

 

[glockman]

You need a tread lightly sign Track looks nice. I like your priorities by the way. Cut the grass or build a pump track, pump track it is!!!

 

[sixstringsteve]

Absolutely. The grass can wait. Besides, when its longer, it can photo synthesize more light. I'm really just thinking of the grass.

 

[sixstringsteve]

I just got another 20 yards of dirt delivered. If anyone plans on riding this, come help us dig.

 

[sixstringsteve]

digging begins at 5:30 PM if anyone wants to come do slave labor for free.

 

[Johnny Quest]

Ugh i wish i hadnt just sold my DJer

 

[sixstringsteve]

That's ok, I have a killer DJ for sale.

 

[RogueJeepr]

That looks like fun.
When I bought my house, the family before me had 2 coy fish ponds built into the backyard landscape. So I drained the water , filled it in with various rocks and busted out my r/c crawlers.
I even have a firepit next to it. It used to house a big filter (about 2 ft deep).

 

[sixstringsteve]

We moved about 11 yards last night. 9 more to go. We will be digging again on Thursday night.

 

[sixstringsteve]

 

[sixstringsteve]

many thanks to my buddies who have helped me dig. We're still undecided on how to do the u-turn at the end.

 

[rholbrook]

You should give many thanks to your very patient wife. My wife would have killed me by now.

 

[sixstringsteve]

Honestly, my wife doesn't care 1%. She knew what she was getting into when she married me.

She gets a bigger garden now, so she's happy. We weren't using our grass anyway, and it was just sitting there wasting my time cutting it, and wasting resources watering it. It was a complete waste. We still have a big grass area if we ever get kids, but I have a feeling they're going to be BMXers instead of soccer players.

 

[Deleted member 12904]

e weren't using our grass anyway, and it was just sitting there wasting my time cutting it, .

Doesn't look like you have wasted to much time cutting it.

 

[sixstringsteve]

cutting it once is wasting plenty of time.

 

[Cody]

You're a nut. Cody approves.

just a thought, I've got these 15 gallon plastic barrels here that are barley extract comes in. You could use them to fill with h2o and stamp the dirt down, or underneath the rolls in your track to require less dirt. They are 26" tall and 14" diameter.....so if you put them on their side they would be 26" across and 14" tall.

They are free if you want them.