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...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
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...
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...
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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 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!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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.
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.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Important Prep Work
We are still waiting for the batch of new 2x4s for the project, but in the meantime I've been busy preping and pre-building a few parts of the project for the build days so that they will go by smoothly. We've added an additional 4ft piece to the flat bottom of the ramp. We figured that the riders would need more time to setup to hit the ramp comfortably and we plan to fix a problem we had with the ramps tranny back in 2 day which we never mention but will be explain on film (theres a good reason for it.)
Next on top of that I've built the basic structure for the rollin to get it ready for us to haul up and drop in its post holes. It going to be really tuff. As a side project also we've started building a skatepark away from the mini mega ramp completely out of scrap wood and old ramps to show what amazing things you can build out of nothing and how to get the wood to do it. The park building will be in the extras of the DVD and we might drop a few photos on here when it nears its finish.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Good News and Rainy Days Begin
So I've been searching Craigslist latey for cheap prices on wood. Luckily enough for me I found the perfect listing. Some church was planning on building a new building from wood and then decided to make it from metal. So now they have tons of wood that there not going to use. Hell yes, you know what this means?! 1 unit(=280 peices) of 2x4s for under $200! Not only will it finish our build but it will take care of the quarter pipe we've been wanting to build, but couldn't afford!
So yes! It will be a full mini mega ramp now. Making the build time a little longer, but it will be worth it.
An the project has had its first rain this year, so we covered a few things up with the parts and moved them in the shed. Suppose to have rain friday through sunday this week. An we probally won't have anouth build day for another 2 weeks (cause waiting to pick up the new wood)
But in the meantime were going to level out the whole ramp and move everything into its respected places and mount it all down so our time doesn't not go to waste.
So yes! It will be a full mini mega ramp now. Making the build time a little longer, but it will be worth it.
An the project has had its first rain this year, so we covered a few things up with the parts and moved them in the shed. Suppose to have rain friday through sunday this week. An we probally won't have anouth build day for another 2 weeks (cause waiting to pick up the new wood)
But in the meantime were going to level out the whole ramp and move everything into its respected places and mount it all down so our time doesn't not go to waste.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Day 10: Another Piece to the Ramp
October 18, 2008 
We took a longer break than normal skating the fun box at the house and after a few scrapes and bruises we were back to building. We finished a little late, but all in all the day was good. There was just way to many sexual references going around that day haha.
DAY 10
It’s sort of strange to think now over a year has gone by and all this has only been done in just 10 days. Well it’s another day as we build onto the existing support structure and now its 8ft 10inches high at its peak. We have one new builder that joined us, Vince Mallow and we had Greg Love back building again.
It’s sort of strange to think now over a year has gone by and all this has only been done in just 10 days. Well it’s another day as we build onto the existing support structure and now its 8ft 10inches high at its peak. We have one new builder that joined us, Vince Mallow and we had Greg Love back building again.
Today we ran into a few issues adding the second piece and mounting it. Because of some minor miss-alignments on the first one it caused some support 2x4s not to fit properly and then we had to go back and cut some more wood to fix the problem and then fix it so it matches with our plans for the next support piece. It was frustrating. Remember back when your teacher was telling you about math and you laughed at her saying you were never going to use that? We’ll I take it back haha Never thought we would be doing this back then.
We took a longer break than normal skating the fun box at the house and after a few scrapes and bruises we were back to building. We finished a little late, but all in all the day was good. There was just way to many sexual references going around that day haha.
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