ok so me and my buddies are starting to build a track in my girlfriends back yard. we built a double last week it is a 20 footer and it has been sittin through rain and everything and it is all good but it is hard but it ruts like no other it is all clay and blackdirt so any help on keepin tracks hard and rut free let me know or any other help on buildin a track
track builders!? help
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ok so me and my buddies are starting to build a track in my girlfriends back yard. we built a double last week it is a 20 footer and it has been sittin through rain and everything and it is all good but it is hard but it ruts like no other it is all clay and blackdirt so any help on keepin tracks hard and rut free let me know or any other help on buildin a track
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gfleck067 said:
Run it over a lot with either the bikes or a tractor before you ride it. I usually just ride up the face of the jump to the top and then roll back down backwards and repeat that till the whole jump is compact. That always works for me
are you building with machines or hand? If you dont have machines it will take rolling it alot before it packs. Waterpacking is not that good. Look at a pile of dirt just sitting. It does not get that packed just by getting rained on. If you are doing it by hand borrow someones lawn roller, fill it with water and roll roll roll.
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it isnt wet when we are ridin the track and we are using a little kabota nothing big i think i rode up it at least 100 times and we have a 80lbs concrete roller that we used
then we tried useing a piece of ply wood it helped out alot and it sorta packed it you think it just needs more time?
and my buddy just smoothed it out with his bobcat tonight also and finished our berm
so i will keep posted and throw some pics up as we go thanks alot guys
then we tried useing a piece of ply wood it helped out alot and it sorta packed it you think it just needs more time?
and my buddy just smoothed it out with his bobcat tonight also and finished our berm
so i will keep posted and throw some pics up as we go thanks alot guys
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It may just be the soil type. Sandy soil doesn't hold up well for jumps. I've heard a lot of guys in Fla. have to throw a piece of scrap carpet over their sand based jumps so they will hold up. If you can find some clay to use to form the jumps, or at least cover the top layer, it will pack down and be as hard as cement when it drys out. THis is what I try to do. SOme of mine even have black rubber marks on them they are so hard.
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we have realli dirty clay with rocks and stuff in them from the guy we are gettin it from it was dirty filler clay and we are also using black dirt which both of them should pack realli nicely but for some reason they just dont wanna
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so we were workin on the track for a fwe hours today and of coarse you have to ride for a while
the only thing that will make a rut is a crf150f no where near the bottom of the jump just 2 feet at the top
the kid riding the bike also just sits down and right before the lip pins it
i think that is the biggest rut factor anyone else think so??
the only thing that will make a rut is a crf150f no where near the bottom of the jump just 2 feet at the top
the kid riding the bike also just sits down and right before the lip pins it
i think that is the biggest rut factor anyone else think so??
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Dude I have my own track and it takes a while for it to pack, I didn't have the patience to wait to ride, so if you don't wait to ride on it just keep fixing it and it'll smooth out and be nice, my bro-in-law brings his yamaha 250 over and hits the track pretty hard and the track holds up fine.
Time and work and shovels make a track good.
Time and work and shovels make a track good.
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mx'er 197 said:
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