My Backyard Railjam (Construction pics)

Hunter B. · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 174 City: Kingwood

Starting Pool is 40ft long, 16ft wide, and 2ft deep
Landing Pool is 48ft long, 16ft wide, and 3ft deep
Gap is 20 feet and going to be filled with hay bales and old stinky mattresses haha.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 2:52 am Post subject:

holy hell! putting a rail between the 2? im confused on the set up. but props for building that! whats it cost you so far? I bet the water bill is gunna be out the roof! cant wait to see more.

Hunter B. · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 174 City: Kingwood

Better?

zip · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 752 City: Sydney

looks sick man

hus #1 · Ollie Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 71 City: UK

looks sick but it might take you all summer to fill those pools with that 1 hose and water pressure

Jholiday · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

you should put the winch on the other pool... looks like a drop... dope setup dude

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

That particle board is gonna fall apart.

cheapskate · Guest

TAD, lets hope not!

BillyOLDS · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 9:20 am Post subject:

the water pressure is a b!tch, seriously support the crap outta ur pool frame. and why are u strating in the lower pool? pretty much opposite of what anyone else will build. my suggestion if u want to have a higher pool would be to make both pools the same length so u can run either way. particle board will just not last forever, ull be fine for a lil while, and depending on how good you support the walls, will matter a great deal in how long it lasts, good luck

haha the kid in the first picture is peeeing like a man!

tad · 360 flip Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5031

That wood will do fine for a little while but the second that stuff gets wet you're fvcked. It just warps and crumbles.

Hunter B. · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 174 City: Kingwood

Well they are both completely above ground and I don't want to land in 2ft of water, so I decided to make the second pool bigger so that landing and/or crashing in it wouldn't always end with the ground. We filled the small pool overnight last night and had a blow out on one of our pieces of wood, but now that we understand the force, we will rebrace everything correctly.

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

we built a little backyard pool like that over a year ago and it's still standing to this day. janky particle board walls too.

PIRATE · Kickflip Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2651

BillyOLDS · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

Hunter B., if u look up the the blacktop brodeo from a while back ull see that even on concret u can land in 1ft of water from a 7ft drop. dont over think it! its was better to gap down, ull most likely turn it around, sliding up while being pulled by a winch especialy over a 20ft gap is gna be a serious operation, going down how ever will be way more fun, but u live and u learn so have fun!

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject:

BillyOLDS, deffinatly

your landing on grass youll be fine.

kyle41 · Posted: Jul 08, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Particle board can resist the weather better then i once thought. The jax pool gap we had was built mostly of particle wood and lasted for a year until we tore it down.

mattttt60 · Backside 180 Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 648 City: 941

thats gonno be so siick

fastgreens · Kickflip Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3563 City: baytown

Hunter B., looks like fun Smash

i saw the pics on GCWA earlier

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

Hunter B., Is it still standing ?

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 22, 2009 3:24 pm Post subject:

Montgomery, thats a funny question..