My 4ft / 3ft x 15ft mini

Wow, who'd have thought it was a profit deal? Looks like you built it 'proper' though.

I would go crete without hesitation, drainage issues permitting of course.

Wow, who'd have thought it was a profit deal? Looks like you built it 'proper' though.

I would go crete without hesitation, drainage issues permitting of course.

Yup, I sent this woman some photo's cause she wanted me to quote her for a build and when she saw mine, she said, just sell me yours instead.

drainage shouldn't be an issue, my property is sloped and will work just fine. I think the next one will be 3ft higher of if I go 4, it'll have 8 foot trannies instead of 7ft-ers.

So after taking longer than the great pyramid of Giza to construct you then farm off your shoddy goods to an unsuspecting member of the public!!! You gonna include the plastic chair you had ont he platofrm at one point to seal the deal?

PS..... 'crete all the way...... that way you may build it within my lifetime.

So after taking longer than the great pyramid of Giza to construct you then farm off your shoddy goods to an unsuspecting member of the public!!! You gonna include the plastic chair you had ont he platofrm at one point to seal the deal?

PS..... 'crete all the way...... that way you may build it within my lifetime.

Pretty much..................lol.

The chair is NOT included........

The chair is NOT included........

And they're still buying it? The chair was the best thing I thought

The chair is NOT included........

And they're still buying it? The chair was the best thing I thought

TWATT!!!!

you do realise you can't flog on a concrete bowl for profit 2 weeks after the 18months it'll take to build it

lol..........I'm actually in the mood to build one from steel.........would cost a fraction of wood and crete, but I can recyle it...........lol.

what about paper mache and wire coat hangers?

what about paper mache and wire coat hangers?

sarky gitt!!!!

Just noticed that I never updated this. Well after having this woman pitch up to view the ramp, straight away she lowballs me and offers me half of what i want. I said nope....sorry, she then asks if her kids can at least have a bit of a skate on it...............I say nope......so the ramp is staying.

Hooked up with some older skaters this weekend and I'm having my first skate bash this weekend. Will post loads of pics next week in the photos section.

[Woody]

Just noticed that I never updated this. Well after having this woman pitch up to view the ramp, straight away she lowballs me and offers me half of what i want. I said nope....sorry, she then asks if her kids can at least have a bit of a skate on it...............I say nope......so the ramp is staying.

Hooked up with some older skaters this weekend and I'm having my first skate bash this weekend. Will post loads of pics next week in the photos section.

GOOD NEWS ... it was too nice to let go

Yup..I'm glad it's staying..............my wife even pulled me aside and said no fucking ways are you selling it for that cheap.......and she hates it.

After all the effort you put in to building the ramp, I'm pleased to see that you kept it. Good for you.

FUCK ME.............what an awesome sesh........More pics to follow. Lingo, who probably has the coolest style that I've seen in a while took all the pics. He shoots for a local skate rag and he reckons that the ramp as well as the whole oldy scene that is happening may just be enough to get a feature.

I just posted a few (the arty ones) as I'm waiting for the rest to be sent.

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The group, from left to right. Me 36, Angelo 37, (used to skate with this guy 20 years ago), Micheal 34 and Chris 36. Lingo who was taking the shots is 36. Nice age group.

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Best trick of the day had to be lingo doing a BS Indy nose pick on the 4ft section. He was killing the ramp, FS rocks, disaster reverts and was almost nailing Pivot fakies..........I'll have to sink the coping in some more, it's a bit knarly at the moment.

What I loved the most was that I almost nailed a 50-50. I was actually coming back in the ramp and just jumped off........fuck. I'll have it done pronto..........overall it was a killer sesssion and it was Über cool to have some oldies session MY RAMP!!!!!

Hoping to have another group run this Friday..............will update sme pics soon though.

Awesome tripleF!! What an exodus getting that up! Looks really shweeeeet! Now Im gonna have to come up from Cape Town to invade! (-its Greg who phoned you the other day btw). Great thread, had some gd belly laughs along the way!

Awesome tripleF!! What an exodus getting that up! Looks really shweeeeet! Now Im gonna have to come up from Cape Town to invade! (-its Greg who phoned you the other day btw). Great thread, had some gd belly laughs along the way!

Hey greg..............as I said man, the offer is there.

Hopefully having another sesh this week.

i had a wee read through this, really enjoyed the story of the build!

baz

OK 3XF! Youre on! Wont be too soon tho, struggling to find work at the mo so a bit grounded . Got some good mates in Jozi tho so def want to make a mish up that side sometime soon. Sk8 ur ramp and too check out all the uber cool parks up there , u lucky sods!! Blow all crete down here, unless u want to hang in Mitchells Plain that is - dodgey prospect!

Hmm ........now to secretly practice minis (which I suck at) endlessly........

End of an era..........

It's coming down next month..........the plans for the jam room are sorted and it's been decided to recycle most of the wood and steel for various projects around the house.........speaker boxes, guitar cases, cupboards and shelving.

I'm going to keep a 3m section as a quarter pipe for my driveway for those boring nights. It won't be the same, but it'll at least be something.

It was good while it lasted.......Will post a few pics of the teardown.

Just revisited the start of this thread and stumbled across this gem from Dave the Bass...

flatfourfan wrote:

Shit I love my wife.

Dave the Bass wrote:
Tall order but I'll try.

OK. I could probably squeeze out the 'I' today but it'd take until at least the weekend to do the 'love my wife' bit.

How soon do you need it doing?

DTB

EDIT. Maybe different MAS'ers can 'poo' out the other words?

Fuck that made me laugh

lmao.................the whole thread and that stuck out?

but yeah that was a classic.

Great story / great thread, but yeah that bit just made me weep with laughter. It's sad that the ramp is going but a jam room sounds good.

so in closing...................here she is. The only place where I had any sort of rot coming to the party was on one flat section where the draining sucked ass. Besides that...............she held up great and I have 8 large tins of screws to re-use.



Just two of the projects that are using the wood.





I will be using 3 sections of the 3ft trannies for a quarter pipe at the end of the garage, but after over 3 years of use, I'm going to manage to be able to re-use about 95% of the wood and all the steel.

Thread done.............