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Posted by: pharit

Just wondering what you guys are using for your dirt jumps i;ve heard of people using junk cars and throwing dirt on top of them and some other crap like this so they don;t have to use as much dirt?

anyway i was just wondering what everyone else using or ya'll just use dirt. just lookin for some idea's

Posted by: Rip_Tear

just about anything I can get my hands on... Most of my jumps are full of rocks though, a few rail way ties, trees and a few small children... JK but I'd use anything you want, provided it's not "dumb" like oil tanks or possible hazards.

Posted by: Honda6sv

Some friends and I always just used pure dirt and a few shovels(dig a monster hole..1-2 days worth..right in front of the jump, we could clear that anyway). Occasionally we would throw something else in the mix...a couple steel barrels every now and again...empty of course.

Posted by: Robin Hood

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Originally posted by Rip_Tear
just about anything I can get my hands on... Most of my jumps are full of rocks though, a few rail way ties, trees and a few small children... JK but I'd use anything you want, provided it's not "dumb" like oil tanks or possible hazards.

You use children too!? man, and I thought I was the only one.. phew...

haha jk, usually i try to pile up logs then throw dirt over em.

Posted by: 300ex#5

ya what he said...use some logs and then once you have it high enough then start covering it all with dirt

Posted by: XCRACER26

Dont use logs because they rot and fall apart over the winter or anytime and the jumps turn to $h!t.

Posted by: BlasterEaten250

We had some 2by4's laying around, so I just layed some down, put dirt on it, layed more down, put more dirt on it, and so on. Same with the landing.

Posted by: goldrims04

my buddy for the lips uses steel doors or flat peices of metal so u always have the perfect lip it works...

Posted by: Jakeyracer

if you live next to state or county ownd land dig up dirt put it in a wheelborrow take it to your place and use it(make absoulute SURE that there are no cops or smokies ther to pin you with tesspassing the dirt they wont care about if it is on your land)
same wit the neighbors if they have an open feild they dont use or wooded area but ask them first mine tend to yell at me when i dont ask

go figure like i pay attention

i think they know that i was pissed at them for their nagging when i went to there house when they were gone and it was raining i threw a decent roost at the side of their house

Posted by: MAD450r

Here's the only pic's i've got of any of the metal lip's we've got. Figured i'd paste the pic's since Goldrims04 mentioned it.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid198/pda16c41e283b298b99cda1049934de39/f0c0520d.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid198/p95f604a42e4c909e1afa1c4eb1886a5a/f0c05248.jpg

This one we move all the time. It's on the section where they remove land alot, but you get the idea.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid198/p7a613e899d0e9616a563e768daa415c9/f0c05271.jpg

Posted by: Honda MaNiAc 01

Dig a hole with a backhoe, let it sit a few days n grab all the rocks out of it. Plop them down where u want the jump n start piling dirt over them.

Posted by: blue450yo

i used all dirt and rocks. but a big colvert would work rilly good for making a jump.

Posted by: MAD450r

If he had one we'd have a sweet track here, cause what we have we did by hand mostly and its pretty nice. We want to build a whoop section and maybe some rythem sections next.

Posted by: blue450yo

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Originally posted by MAD450r
If he had one we'd have a sweet track here, cause what we have we did by hand mostly and its pretty nice. We want to build a whoop section and maybe some rythem sections next.

i built my track by hand and u would be suprised how much u can get done in 2 hours

Posted by: allstock

me and my friend just built a lip just the way we wanted it then rolled up it for 45 min without jumping it(to pack it in) then put a rug over it and put some dirt over that and its great. works amazing

Posted by: bud660r

I USE COUCHES AND LONG STUFF LIKE THAT THEY MAKE A GOD START.

Posted by: jmoney45

quote:
Originally posted by Jakeyracer
if you live next to state or county ownd land dig up dirt put it in a wheelborrow take it to your place and use it(make absoulute SURE that there are no cops or smokies ther to pin you with tesspassing the dirt they wont care about if it is on your land)
same wit the neighbors if they have an open feild they dont use or wooded area but ask them first mine tend to yell at me when i dont ask go figure like i pay attention

i think they know that i was pissed at them for their nagging when i went to there house when they were gone and it was raining i threw a decent roost at the side of their house

So let me get this straight. You dug a hole on your neighbor's property without permission and when they got upset with you, you threw a roost on their house when they weren't home? If any neighborhood kids did that to me you can bet it would be the first and last time. You do realize that not everybody wants holes on their property right.

Posted by: SRH

i peel up all the sod and put clay on top....like a rock

Posted by: sixsixzero

i get all the hondas i can get my hands on and pile dirt over them for my jumps (thats all there good for) lol jk all u honda lovers

Posted by: Jakeyracer

U dont get it there house has a fence around it and the other 5 acres are just one field of dirt that is nice and rich stuff that they havent set foot on 4 a couple of years all thye have back there is an old tractor that is rusted to Sh!+ so what harm would it be to them 4 me to put that good stuff 2 use

Posted by: blackwell17

how did u roost over the fence and onto their house?

Posted by: jmoney45

quote:
Originally posted by Jakeyracer
U dont get it there house has a fence around it and the other 5 acres are just one field of dirt that is nice and rich stuff that they havent set foot on 4 a couple of years all thye have back there is an old tractor that is rusted to Sh!+ so what harm would it be to them 4 me to put that good stuff 2 use

I don't think you get it, probably because you're too young. That is their private property to do with whatever they want. They paid for it. You didn't. You can't just take what you want, especially when they didn't give you permission.

Also, you don't know what their plans are for that land. Maybe they're going to use it for something in the future and don't want it all dug up.

Posted by: 440racer66

the track o go to has a HUGE drainage pipe in it heres a pic you can see it in the background

Posted by: bluebaron

i just go out to fields before planting or after harvest and scrap like 3 or 4 inches tell i get a bucket full, then repeat in a different spot. Then i use the skid loader to form it better. i could not imagian how much it sucks to have to build jumps with a bucket and wheel barrow. I give props to you guys!

Posted by: BlasterEaten250

quote:
Originally posted by BlasterEaten250
We had some 2by4's laying around, so I just layed some down, put dirt on it, layed more down, put more dirt on it, and so on. Same with the landing.

Posted by: BlasterEaten250

and the front...

Posted by: balls2da-wall

You ever seen the gasoline tanks underneith gas stations? They are about 10ft tall and 20 so ft. long...you take on of those and you can build some wild jumps

A guy that runs our district has one huge tank under one of his jumps...takes up the space of about 6 hours of backhoe work.

Posted by: TRX400-06

There is laws against having those huge @ss gas tanks laying around. It is good use though. I live in "CLAY" county missouri so there is tons of clay in the dirt. Makes longer lasting jumps. Or you can always take lime dust(alot of the dust on gravel roads) and put on your jumps and get it moist then wait for it to dry and it is rock hard.

Posted by: balls2da-wall

what they cant see wont hurt them

Posted by: TRX400-06

That would be my take on it.