NEW VIDEO Updates!!! Prep Work

I know its been a while since any video on the project has been posted. So here it is my friends.
A 3 part series of some of the prep work done prior to Build Days that I do to ensure the build day goes by as smooth as possible. This prep day happens right before DAY 11 where we installed the rollin back in October 28, 2008. These videos go more indepth with the build, design, and decision made on the projects building. Alot more juice in these 3 videos than the past updates combined....Well almost. Anyways enjoy!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


You can find these videos and more at our YOUTUBE channel www.youtube.com/skatescoff

!Road Block!

Documented: May 3, 2009

So the other day I was heading over to my local state farmer agent to pay for my car insurance. I figured since I was here I should talk to him about possibly raising the insurance coverage on the house to cover us for the Jump Day. Turned out to be not such a good turnout. According to the agent if State Farm new we were planning on building this ramp to jump it. They would cancel the home owners insurance on the house and since the mortgage is still being paid off the bank would take over the house and sell it. Kicking my parents out of there home(yes the ramp is on my parents property.) Not good new and a douche kind of a move to make. See I understand there concern, being afraid that if someone would sue if they go hurt and then State Farm would have to pay for that.

But truthfully, they don’t know skateboarding. And skateboarding has the lowest sue rate compared to everything else they deal with. Plus as skateboarders we know what were getting into, so if we break our arm its because of our fault and were not going to blame anyone else for it. State Farm is just so use to dealing will all the other sue happy morons out there.

Anyways trying to think of some ideas around this so we can still jump it here at the house. If that doesn’t work, I’m working on some other ideas as second and last resorts. It might come to be we will need to relocate it, if it comes to that. Its sad to think this is the second time this has happened. Right when we near the completion of the ramp something stupid comes up to hinder its progress…..

Day 17: The Last Piece is Always the Hardest

View all photos from today at our Flickr site!

Sorry for the late post guys. 2 weeks late, not good! Today was a crazy day! Most certainly the most dangerous day for myself and difficult for the both of us. Rhett was out late in the mountains the night before and Cesar refused to wake up early (8am) so it was just Dylan and myself today with Dan rockin the Canon, but John (the photographer) made prior arrangements and had to be somewhere else. So all the photos you see in this post is the day after our progress.

Well mainly today we were going to finish the runway and add the last 6ft piece. Sounds easy right? Well we tried walking it up the existing runway…didn’t work. We kept sliding backwards and we were thinking how the hell we were going to get it up 15ft to its new home. The rope we had was too thin, ok then, our last option…. heave it up the side of the structure. Yep this 6x4ft 40lbs chunk was going to be heaved upward. With Dylan on the bottom he pumps it up and starts pushing it against the structure till it get up to my hands and I was pulling with practically all my back could handle. It was not an easy task I finally took all it into my hands and pulled it the rest of the way up.

Whew! Ok great it’s up. Now let’s get it in place. I was going to have to butt it against the other piece and rest it on the back supporting 2x4s. Another problem now I’m 5’9” and the piece it needs to butt against is 7ft tall. Crap! and it was rotated the wrong way. What we were about to do could have been done a much easier way, but no, blindly chose the more difficult and fastest to pursue route.

Dylan managed to get himself ontop the runway barley hold on. I was going to heave the piece up towards him and balance it halfway on the tip of the runway. Don’t forget Dylan is consistently fighting to hold his grip on the slope of the ramp. Once balanced on top we rotated it 180(flatspin) and then the most sketchy part of the day we had to flip it also (cause it was laying on its back) so we pushed it halfway over the edge and I put myself off the side of the ramp just standing on a few measly 2x4s 16ft above the ground with nothing underneath. I tried to find the most comfortable position I could.

Dylan and I were talking constantly throughout this making sure everything was fine and I was slightly yelling at him cause if he didn’t do what I instructed of him it put me in greater risk of falling or losing my grip. He was stubborn but I’m guessing it was because we didn’t feel to safe either trying to keep this piece of wood from slipping and sliding down towards him. So the plan was once I got on the side wear the piece was overhanging Dylan would hold down the edge on his end and I would push up forcing the piece to stand up and then we rotate it again once I and bring it down flat again. Wow! Easier said than done! Dylan wasn’t able to hold it in place while keeping his grip on the runway and kept sliding the piece kept on sliding back at an angle now and then it hit him. It was so obvious! Grab a freakin 2x4 and screw it down into the ramp to keep you from falling. But that left me in a tight spot.

When Dylan sled off he left the whole piece to me, hanging off the side. I was clasping onto the runway and holding the piece up with the one available hand I had while Dylan rushed around grabbin the screws, screw gun, and wood. It felt like a good 5 minutes went by before he got back up, my abs were sore and my body began to vibrate from holding the piece in place… it was slowly slipping. Dylan finally got the 2x4 in! Thank god we let it slide back a few inches to the 2x4 and began to roll it over again. It worked and Dylan wasn’t slipping anymore. Finally rotating it over we pushed it back up and heaved it up and over the back supporting studs. A few minutes later it was in place and needed to be screwed and secured. I was just happy to get that piece done with! Man sketchiest day ever on the project and I’m sure both Dan and Dylan would agree.

Simple enough next on the agenda for the day was to install the second main piece of the roll-in and mount it down into the existing 4x4. In about an hour we did that and added a set of horizontal braces to keep the width the same on both ends. All in all it was an exhausting 5hrs of work and I really wish John was there to catch the photos of it but you’ll see it when the DVD comes out of this documentary film. Till next week!

-Jason Huewe

Giant Assembly

So basically today I assembled the giant support legs for the side of the rollin. Measuring 16ft long their like giant prongs, the purpose of these is to take stress off the back end where the majority of weight will be. I have 2 built for each side, I'm thinking I might need to get 2 in for the back end also.

They will connect to the 4x4 legs on the roll-in and then slant down and bolt into a 4x4 piece that's been concreted into the ground securing it all together.

More Building

So after the windy day I got back to doing more prep and built the next runway piece for the runway only 6ft long this time around. Again re-using some old 2x4s and scrap plywood it was assembled in no time. I also pre cut the support legs for the piece and the the bottom braces to fully mount the bottom of the rollin. I love these days just me and my tools, peace and quite, working out everything in my head without having to worry about other things...

Day 16: What goes up must go Down

March 29, 2009 View more photos at: www.flickr.com/minimegaramp
The main thing that was crazy about today was the wind! Holy smokes! Working up 12ft in the air with constant 15MPH winds with sometime 30MPH gusts was intense! Other notes is Dan the filmer wasn’t able to come today so we enlisted the help of an additional builder to help film. Cesear Tapia is the name and filming is not quite his skill. Haha He did alright, but audio was shot because of all the wind. Dylan and Rhett also showed up to help today.

Mainly we started construction on the new rollin because the old one wasn’t high enough for the new runway. Rhett and I started building the front and back support sets for the rollin as Dylan started prepping the old one to be removed. Yeap were going to drop the 6ft rollin 12ft to the ground and replace it with its new 8.5ft brother.

After we got the pieces made me and Dylan finished removing the screws and plates that held the rollin in and in a big push rolled it off so it came crashing to the ground! It was a epic scene for the project. Next was fun and well interesting. Especially with all the wind we were going to try to install the back section of the rollin. I tied a rope to the very top of the section for some to check incase it tried to roll away of tip over once in place. We hauled it up and Rhett and Dylan were on top of the runway helping to pull it up. I got the feet at their new bases and we started pushing the piece up so it stood tall. Unfortunately we weren’t tall enough to really do that so John. The photographer who’s been taking all these amazing photos of the project came out to help out.

He got up on the ramp and scooted forward into areas were he wasn’t feeling to comfortable and Dylan came over to help support his body so he didn’t sway to much (remember the 15MPH wind?!) We started pushing it up and then one last heave. Holy f**dge it started rotating over! Rhett gave the rope too much slack and then caught it keeping it from rolling over the back. That was a scary moment right there. Once it was stabilized we quickly anchored in some screws and got the first part in.

An that’s mainly all that happened on Day 16 not much but some pretty epic carnage of the old rollin. We’ll be takin it apart and using the 2x4s in there and re using them in the new rollin and the runway as you’ll see in the film.

Making plans

Dylan came over the other day to help with some prep work. We did some painting of another sheet of ply and added it to the next runway piece. We also worked on reinforcing the launch ramp and discused the problem we discovered last time on Build Day 14 Mainly the runway on the ground (flatbottom including the launch ramp) is at a diffrent angle compared to the runway pieces on the support structure that is concreted into the ground.

We decided that it be best to move the whole flatbottom to the stuctures angle. Obvious choice since the struture is conreted and can't be moved. So we will have to make these changes next build day. Dylan and I also rotated the last runway piece 180 degrees cause it was put in the wrong way. Wasn't too hard this time around but it was getting dark fast and we only mounted one of the support legs in. Just a chill time for about 2hrs getting some small work done on the mini mega....

Scoff Project Websites

Just wanted to let people know of additional content on the THE SCOFF PROJECT and the building of the Scoff Mini-Mega ramp you can visit us on any of these killer websites

Photos: www.flickr.com/minimegaramp

Videos: www.youtube.com/skatescoff
www.shredordie.com/thescoffproject (videos coming soon)

Profiles: www.myspace.com/scoffshop
www.grindtv.com/skatescoff
www.go211.com/u/scoffskateboarding


Enjoy!

Day 14: Back to the Rollin

March 7, 2009

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Wow finally time we started work on the runway to rollin section. I've been pushing to get it done and finally figured that we can try to get it done with only 2 people(including myself) it was a scary concept. Having to haul a 4x8ft section that weight about 50lbs up on to a slanted slope was going to be no easy task.

We had yet another new builder join the crew. Dylan Bittner an 18yr old talented vert skater WITH prior building experience was joining me today and probably had a harder job than he knew he was getting into. More than I even really knew. Starting the day off introducing him to the ramp, what the plans were for the day and after that he voiced his concerns about it and poping open a few Monsters we got to work.

We got to work be beginning on the intial transition leading up the runway. It wasn't at the same angle to the next runway section so basically we stripped it of all its old plywood braces and replaced it with solid 2x4s, also raised it about 3inces to match the same angle as the intial transition. It took us a bit longer than expected but we got it done and out of the way with. Next was the hard part, trying to get the 50lbs runway piece up and bolted in.

For safety reasons I screwed in 2, 2x4s near the front of wear it was going to be added. So that way Dylan can hold it up in the back and the 2 front posts would hold near its position while I tryed to finesse the piece into place and line up the bolt holes getting it were it needed to be. Dylan prepared and got on the runway(I screwed in some 2x4s to place his feet on) I picked up the piece over my back and pushed it up to him. Slowly but surely I pushed it farther up the structure and it started closing Dylan in till he was pinned against the ramp! The poor guy was trying to hold it in place so it didn't slide down and I rushed around to the bottom of the structure and tryed to maneuver it around the 2x4s I just installed. Quickly picking it up and trying to lifting it over those support legs. Dylan is the kind of guy that as he would say "I'm just skin an bones. I have no muscle!" He pulled a Hulk while laughing though the whole ordeal. haha Being pinned under the ramp he pulled the piece up and pushed up the section above his head! I did my best to quickly insert the bolt to stabilize the front and we took a small break. haha we laughed at how rediculous it was. Getting back on it we grabbed to other 2x4s that I already cut and screwed them into the structure so he could rest his back end on them.

Whew! Talk about tension Dlyan looked like "Mr. Planet" or something holding his pose with the ramp above him haha But no the man was sore so he took a break while I started adjusting some of the support posts so the ramp was at the correct height and WOW adjusting it to the new angle is going to make the rollin higher..were estimating about 18-19ft now. Dlyan came back a short while later and helped level out the piece we just added. Next step was to add the cross braces to keep it from shifting and swaying side to side. After the hardest part was over we wanted to skate the thing before the sun fully set. My and dylan quickly grabbed a piece of ply and cut one to size and "tap" screwed them down onto the unplyed section. This is where we noticed a problem. Were the first runway piece met with the one we had just added today, they didn't line up correctly..........................Not a good sign. One was off by about 2 inches. The reason is we didn't bother to stiffen and straighten out the first piece so the warping was never fixed. It was the end of the build day so we decided to save the fixin for another day and skated it anyways just getting a feeling for it we started mid way up the built runway and almost made it up to the lip of the ramp. Dylan's ankle was recovering from a fall and didn't want to test it from the top...but I did. It was a bit sketchy, no rollin, just basically stepping on my board from a steep angle. Pumping out and grabbing my board I got about 10ft out from the ramp! I was stoked to finally be able to get it partially rideable again! It has been a long time.

The sun way setting and we all put in a good 5hrs of hard work. It was a good day to finally see runway come together and it had grown now also cause of the angle change. Dylan was sore and Dan was not so tired this time around though the battery kept on dieing. Didn't get a full charge the night before and John(the photographer) was still snapp-in shots till the days end.

Looking forward to the next build day when we will fixing the line up problem with the runway pieces and adding another runway piece to the runway.

Day 13: Workin on the Second Half

February 28, 2009
Well today it was obvious we weren’t going to get all the builders together in one place for putting up the runway. So the prep work I did the week before setting up the landing bank was put to good use. We had a new young builder Rhett Renburg coming to help out a friend of our filmer Dan Stolling.
After grabbing a few Monsters we got to work. Rhett assisted me in leveling out the new flat bottom piece and along with the launch ramp which was sinking to one side likely the work of all the rain we’ve had lately. Rhett displayed his hulk skills today lifting some massive pieces so I could get pieced of wood under to help level the ramp out. Seriously though leveling may seem small but it is one of the most serious things to do and therefore takes a longtime to make sure everything is fine.




Next on the agenda was to rebuild some of the supporting structure for the launch ramp itself since we stripped it of its main 4x4 supports. We sawed off the additional wood that was left over, took out the 2x4s that were next and replaced them with the 4x4s we used before. Made sure the tip of the ramp was leveled and screw our cross braces in. It was funny and a bit serious at the same time. Rhett was holding the wood in placed while I screwed in a few 3inch screws to the 4x4 and we forgot the 6ft long level on the ramp……It came down hit the camera lens and Rhett on top of the head! Luckily the camera was fine and Rhett had a little red line on top of his head along with a good sized bump. All in all everything was fine and we continued building.
Before we moved on to start plying up the landing bank myself and Rhett tried chugging a MIXX Monster drink, we both fell half a can short of it all in one breath. An Rhett feeling empowered by his hulk skills lifting the ramps tried smashing the can using his forehead…..It didn’t go so well. We ended up putting 2 sheets up on the bank when the cameras battery ran out and the days light was getting darker. We decided what the hell! Lets have some fun and plyed the bank up just enough so we could ride down it onto one of the large runway pieces.

It was a fun treat just being able to ride a section of it and we got some serious speed off the bank also…Soon after the filmer and Rhett had to leave and we made plans for the next build day…Hopeful to attack the runway again and get some of it finished. After they left I took a break and continued on the bank screwing 2 additional sheets in. Still needs a full sheet at the bottom and a partial at the end.

For more photos of DAY 13 visit www.flickr.com/minimegaramp

Prep Day an More

So I was back doing prep work and since I wasn't exactly counting on all the builders showing up for this coming day I figure I'd prep the landing bank incase. Removed the old 3/4inch ply stips that were being used as tension bars and with every support beam I added 2x4 cross braces. I also painted an ass load of wood. Big rain is expected and I didn't want anything else to be put under the weather until it was covered in the latex paint. I ended up painting....

x2 8'x8' runway pieces for the landing bank
x The rest of the landing bank itself

x2 Sheets of plywood

x1 Last runway piece for the launch ramp

I also continued past all that and cut the launch ramp down to size. It was at 8ft 6inches and was going to launch skaters off at too high an incline. Its has now been nocked down to 6ft 8inches which sets it up at the perfect angle to appraoch and land on the bank. An picked the bank off the ground to rest on some concrete blocks, then started leveling it out. It was alot of work to do by yourself in 8 hours.

Moving into Place

So sorry for the late updates friends...
So another build day went down the day but I was not going to allow it to go to waste. I had some of my family members over and took advantage of it. With 4 of us we picked up the landing bank and moved it into position. The landing back was settled into the right alignment but tettered on the un-even ground.
No worries though, that will be fixed in the days to come. Theres currently a 23ft gap to the sweet spot on the landing bank but once the the roll-out deck when its finished, there will be a 20ft deadmans gap between the two.
As for now though I will be preping the landing bank incase more delays for finishing the runway continue. Till next time..

Another Flake Day

Well weather man said it was suppose to rain on our build day, so i told everyone that we probably were not going to build, but just in case I would give them all a call today and let them know.
To my surprise it was nice cold damp and sunny out in the morning! Heck yes! We can have a build day and get the runway installed and finished! So we had some new builders planned to come and help with the ramp. This day was going to be a really difficult one cause we have to haul really heavy pieces up the runway and mount them in place. An if the ramp wasn't completely dry it would be to dangerous(it had rain a whole inch the last day!)
An no one answered there phones over the next few hours....I'm disappointed but I guess its my fault on this one. I told them we probably wouldn't build so they most likely crashed and slept too the afternoon...
As of right now I'm with Dan doing some editing for the next video update. It goes over the prep that I do personally to set up for the build days to make sure they move smoothly..Lot of good info in this one...so keep your eyes peeled for it. Till next time

Back from ASR

So I was in San Diego over last weekend at ASR. An I was lucky enough to see that ASR was holding a mini mega ramp demo put on by the masters of Mega Ramp. It was a real treat being able to see their 30ft beast and talking to some of the guys and builders behind everything. I have alot more respect for them and learned quite a bit. I asked if they thought the dimensions were good and they looked at me and sorta laughed. They said they wanted to keep their jobs and continue to feed their family haha So I didn't persue it any further. A few of them did nod there head in approvement of the progression of the ramp and how its coming along. That was the main highlight of my weekend there.
For those of you who don't know what ASR is visit www.asrbiz.com
We hope to get one more build day in here before the next week. We'll cross our fingers and hope...

Day 10: Video Update

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Small Delays

So the weather has been too cold or too wet cause of all the fog to build since the last build day we had. Then when the weather was clearing our builders couldn't cordinate and no work was done last sunday...
As far as now goes the weather is all cleared and were hoping to get some building done soon here. I will be gone to ASR friday and saturday and we'll hopefully build on sunday again. Till then keep on checking back for video updates from past build days!

NEW Video Update! Day 9 inside look

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.


Have anything you want to ask about the Scoff Project? Email us at theproject@scoffskateboarding.com and we’ll get back to you and maybe even post your question up here!

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.