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I’ve been wanting to take a scrap pallet from work and make it into a mountain bike trail jump ramp so I did. This job kicked my azz but I’m satisfied with the end result.
Check out the ancient-history metal can ShopVac wired into the el-cheapo B&D 9″ chopper, hey it was all free and works.
It doesn’t look like much but when one end is set in dirt and the other end is up on legs about 8-10″ high it should have a decent hook to it. Getting that curved radius right wasn’t glorious and those spiral-twist nails take a huge jerk (present company included) to get them out. Notice the exclusive “Strike Zone” slat spacing, mistakes I mean er umm features like this are normally only found on higher priced stolen-from-the-alley-next-to-the-dumpster pallet jump ramps.
sweet deal, good job lets hope we don’t see you on one of those fail videos …….when you fly into a side of a barn or something….lol
man-machine wrote:
34 minutes ago, man-machine said:It doesn’t look like much but when one end is set in dirt and the other end is up on legs about 8-10″ high it should have a decent hook to it. Getting that curved radius right wasn’t glorious and those spiral-twist nails take a huge jerk (present company included) to get them out. Notice the exclusive “Strike Zone” slat spacing, mistakes I mean er umm features like this are normally only found on higher priced stolen-from-the-alley-next-to-the-dumpster pallet jump ramps.
I think it looks awesome and putting this on a mtn bike trail is awesome.
Looks good bro make sure u post some pics when it’s set up
Looks like it’s going to make a great ramp
Looks good dude !!!!
Hey thanks everyone I’m always fishing for validation and approval, on facebook I was told to stick my head in a bucket and see if my nose writes underwater.
HAHA good one. So do we get to see you jump your bike off this now?
man-machine wrote:
22 hours ago, man-machine said:Hey thanks everyone I’m always fishing for validation and approval, on facebook I was told to stick my head in a bucket and see if my nose writes underwater.
real mature! …..we all know nose’s can’t write underwater….pff
KnarlyCarl wrote:
On 11/22/2016 at 7:08 PM, KnarlyCarl said:HAHA good one. So do we get to see you jump your bike off this now?
THIS.
I want to see it in action.
I made three more, longer & better using a 10 foot radius compass to draw the arc onto the wood.