Day 11: Adding the Rollin

December 27, 2008

DAY 11
Luckily the rain stopped about 2 days before today’s build. The ground still wet and moist and the fog was still lingering after 8am. We planned to build at 9am and the build crew wasn’t going to be able to make it out today but we still needed to push forward with getting the 16ft rollin up in place. Otherwise if it warped out of place with anymore rain we would have to rebuild it.


Dan showed up and we chilled inside till things warmed up a bit more outside; it was about 42 degrees. Soon after I enlisted the help of everyone the filmer, my brother and photographer John, and was able to get my dad out to help us heave the largest part of the ramp a football field away.




Finally getting there, we dropped it in the 2ft holes and it was leaning massively forward and off balance. We propped it up with our ladder till we were able to figure out needed to be done. Digging out some dirt from the holes and adding some back in others… We were finally able to level the rollin and add its basic braces in place to midly secure it. Thanks a lot to John for sticking around and helping me with today’s build.



We had to call it after 3-4hrs, it was a pretty laid back day at the project. An since we were short 2 builders today, the cross bracing for the rollin wasn’t finished and the legs were concreted in. We’ll take care of the legs tomorrow but save the cross bracing for the next build day when we have more people to put it up faster. Only 4 more build days till the first test run! Hopefully in February it will happen.


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Till next time...

The Trip for Wood was nothing Easy

Ok so today i am going to pick up a whole unit of the 2x4s enough wood to finish the structure for the mini mega ramp. Mainly today I was suppose to rent a trailer at 10am and meet up at an undisclosed location to pick up the wood at 10:30am. An I had a errand to run with my car at Toyota before all this. Well Toyata took their time with my car when i brought in my car and I got out late. This was 9:45am when i left. I went back to base to pick up the truck and drove it too U-Haul to rent the 12ft trailer i was going to need. It was 10:15 when i got there and they started to hook up the truck then another problem!

The man looks up at me and asks "Do you have a brake light adapter?" What? I ask him what are you talking about. Well aparently our adapters weren't the same so the brake and turn lights on the trailer won't going to work. So I ran to one shop close by and they didn't have an adapter in my size and then i went to another and they didn't have one either but suggest that I might be able to build one from scratch. I'm like the what the hell, I have to have this to pick up the wood. 20mins later out of spare parts from the shop i built a adapter that would fit the truck and hoped that i wrired it correctly.

Drove back to U-Haul and connected the trailer again. We tryed out the adapte i had built. Ok left turn signle works, brakes work, right turn signle doesn't work! So close! I try a few more wire combinations and it doesnt help. The employee said that it was ok and since the majority of my lights worked I could go. Finally! So I'm off and hit the freeway.

30 mins later after onlly going a max of 55MPH I came to a big construction site and i met with the pastor of West McKinley Assembly of God, John. Him and his friend hoped in the truck and directed me among piles of industry equipment, sand, rock, and dirt to a hidden spot where most of the wood was that they were keeping.
The guy was going to load it by forklift and since our trailer had walls we had to raise the floor by adding pallets so he could set them on top. After a few minutes he drop a good 600lbs of wood on the trailer.
On the way back was really sketchy. Haulling all that weight and driving at high speeds (still under 55MPH) at times the trailer would start whipping back and forth and I would have to cruise down to keep it under control. Even all the big rigs were passing me! That was a new experiance, all in all I got the wood back safe and sound
and it took a good 3hrs to unload everything into the shed. Were lucky to have found this for as cheap as it was and a few were warped/molded from recent rain but about 244 of them were still fine. I'll be looking foward to our next build after christmas.
All of you have a Merry Christmas!

The Fog Moves In

So over the last 2 days we have had intense fog in Clovis and the project, being built away from the city its been engulfed in it. This is not too good for the ramp cause the tarp can't protect against it and we just have to hope the protective paint holds.
The fog has been so thick that you can't see more than 20ft in front of you and looks like a fine mist blanketing the entire air. Its suppose to let up tonight and I hope so. We need the ramp to dry out so we can build again this week. I'll be picking up a shipment of 2"x4"x12ft this Thursday. We used our mighty skills and found a deal on craigslist.com to grab a whole unit (280 pieces) for only $150! So I'm stoked on that and looking forward to building a quarterpipe at the end.