Painting the Monster

So we've had some pretty good rains come in recently and the new structure for the project hasn't been protected yet. I was finally able to paint the ramp a week later when the wood dried out and spent a good 6hrs getting every inch covered in paint. I used a high latez based primer paint. You can usualy find it at Home Depot for about 60-$80 in the 5-gallon bucket....

News here says it should be raining in about 2 days for thursday to friday and hopefully we will build again on saturday...but we'll see how acurrate that news is..

Day 12: What the heck happened?

Febuary 1, 2009

DAY 12: If someone was to walk onto the filming today they might have thought we were released from the looney bin. Such a strange and playfull day at the project. We were expecting to install the rest of the cross bracing in today, for the rollin and last section.
No builders showed though. Greg was in San Fran cause he got an invite to the new Alien Workshop video premier and the others were home watching the Super Bowl cause their parents wanted them there for family... All understandable I guess but I was determined to keep on working if there were no builders.

It took us a while just to get started, it was such a nice day and I think we felt too relaxed and took our time. In between everything it was a goof off. From everything being in "3D", Builders Corner w/ Scoffman, Mr. Hand, camrea wars, and time watches.... I do believe I finshed just one section of cross braces out of the 20.

So yea we documented what we did and how we did it and what tools were used. So the main juice for that day was covered. Inbetween days I will be finishing the cross bracing by myself and hopefully get the ramp painted with waterproof primer to help it better cope with the weather. Next saturday if we don't get rained out will be the next build day and well finish plying up and installing the runway pieces. Can't wait to put out this video update! haha
-Scoffman

Rockwell Time Joins the Project

After a few months finding a date I met with the guys at Rockwell Time this weekend in San Fransisco at the Monster Supercross event. Found them out and had a chat with them about the Scoff Project, Scoff's mini mega ramp. We had talks and discussed business and everything came out well. So I'm glad to announce Rockwell as a presenting sponsor for the project. There going to help get the project out there and finish it up! You may have seen their solid watches, giant big rig with 12 flat screens, or found them on myspace

Overall Rockwell makes some fine watches, bold, sturdy, and solid. Perfect for if you in a fight in the back ally or shredding your nearest high school and don't wan't a watch that will break after a few falls.

They all wanted to something special for all of you and the people that have been following the the progress of the mini mega ramp. So when you feel up for getting a new watch enter in the promo code "TSP" short for The Scoff Project and it will automatically nock 10% off the price!! Pretty good deal in times like these, plus the sales of the watches using the "TSP" code will go towards to help fund the rest of the mini mega project

You can visit there web store HERE and learn more about them at their website www.rockwelltime.com

Again big thanks to Rockwell an don't forget to check them out! an use the promo code "TSP"

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.