Day 1 and 2: The Begining

For all of you wondering how this project got started its a long story and you can catch all the prior history to it on the Scoff website at www.scoffskateboarding.com/theproject.html

But since we started this new build last year i will start it from there, on....

October 5, 2007

Day 1 at the Scoff Project was beautiful and at 8am in the morning the sun was beaming out with a light breeze and it seemed like it will be the perfect day. Unfortunately it wasn’t very perfect. Shane Mooney, part of the building crew dropped by on time, but our filmer wasn’t there. We called to find out what happened and apparently he couldn’t make it and never got a hold of us. So then for the rest of the day we frantically called friends to grab another filmer for the rest of the day. We managed to get one by the end of the day, and picked up Jarred Dahl, the last of our building crew. But time was already spent and the sun was setting.

The 3 of us just started some prep, and pre-cut one of the transition sides and a few 2x4s before we called it a day. Tomorrow we will start building the ramp.


October 6, 2007

Day 2
On Day 2 we started filming and building around 9am. Everyone had there opening cans of Monster to start the day and the smell of sawdust filled the air. Finished the transitions of the ramp we continue to layout and build the base of it, then start nailing the studs in. We were moving at a fairly smooth speed. The tranny was coming together nicely with a few exceptions that we later took care of. Jarred the youngest in the building crew noticed a good amount of bees that came from nowhere. He is allergic to them and very afraid of being stung by one so he was dancing around trying to escape them. Jason eventually got him a can of hornet n wasp killer so he could defend himself.

The tranny was about 90% done now and looked beautiful, the transition, and curvature of the ramp was very smooth. We used a 24ft radius to get the angle and the ramp itself is 8ft high and 18ft long. So before we finished it and put the final 4x4 supports in and cross braces. We picked up the ramp and moved it about a football field away (2 acres) to where it will be used and attached to the rest of the runway. After finishing the last of the transition we sat back and just relaxed looking at it thinking how nar it was. We joked around thinking Mexicans trying to get into the US illegally might use mega ramps to launch over the border, or how you only see ramps of this size in the X-Games or carnivals with clowns jumping off them. Haha

All in all we did well today and plan to begin again next Friday and Saturday of October. We will hopefully finish the flat bottom, initial tranny to the levy and about half of the runway. Until then.