finally finished building my new rail park and winch!

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

So about after a couple of months convincing my girlfriends parents to set up a rail park on their private property in Tahoe (I promised to keep the location a secret) I was finally able to create this new paradise. So now that I had the rails in, I needed to build a winch so I did that too. Big thanks to a couple friends for the help on the winch because without them I would still probably be working on it but instead it pulled perfect from the first pull with no problems at all. hope you all enjoy

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

Little slice of paradise. Cool

thatwasrad · Posted: Sep 22, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

Patent pending on A.Watts winch design.

LFsk8er · Posted: Sep 22, 2010 1:16 pm Post subject:

Heaven? I think so...

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

GnarShredd, more like the whole pie
LFsk8er, I pray every day that heaven is just like this
thatwasrad, the only idea I got from Austin's and David C.'s winch was the diamond plate on the outside of the spool and some of his frame design which is actually a lot different than mine but I don't want to go into detail on the many differences( which if you would build a winch yourself you'd know) but rather thank Austin and especially David C. for helping me out on building this thing. Never been so stoked

thatwasrad · Posted: Sep 22, 2010 2:00 pm Post subject:

yeah Austin forsure has the right idea, awesome that you used parts of his design and that David made his exactly like Austins.

awatts · Posted: Sep 22, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject:

That lake looks magical Ricky! I also like the side mount reciever on your winch Idea

. October set for sure

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

awatts, Thanks buddy! Can't wait for you to get up here already and ride this place. It really is magical up here. You'll love it but we gotta hit it up before it gets buried with 30 feet of snow for the winter.

wakemitch · Posted: Sep 22, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject:

cant wait to hit it up again!

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

wakemitch, This weekend is going to be so sick! Especially since my winch pulls like a champ. See you guys Saturday night at the cabin

eviltweak · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 839 City: Nor Cal

So sick but so cold. I had such an awesome time this weekend.

labellethrasher · Posted: Sep 23, 2010 7:54 am Post subject:

eviltweak cold water is good for you. Great shots!

Live2Ride you certainly do. WOW!

Kid512 · Posted: Sep 23, 2010 10:57 am Post subject:

Talk making things happen! Persistence is key and you got the ultimate prize, looks sick hope to see more of you shredding this new Gem.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Live2Ride, lookin good, dude!

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

scott a, thanks man! So much work but it's definitely worth it when you step back and really look at the place. cant wait to put in a bunch of other rails and jibs. You gotta come up with us one of these weekends buddy

PrimeO · Posted: Sep 23, 2010 10:49 pm Post subject:

looks really fun. we are in the process of making a park and pool gap. Cant wait till we are done!!! gives us something to look forward to in the winter

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Live2Ride, yeah, I bet it felt soooooo good to hit that thing for the first time!

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

hell yeah it did! Especially since I hit them with the winch I built too. so pumped it all worked out man. we did a full throttle test and I was probably going close to 25-28mph. smashin haha

Raven · Posted: Sep 24, 2010 8:33 am Post subject:

Live2Ride, what a sick spot......all those big white boulders make it look wild.

the biggest rock round here is a grain of sand Neutral

secret spots are so damn sexy

Live2Ride · Ollie Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 62 City: San Jose

PrimeO, Thats sick you're building a park and pool gap. Its so worth the time and effort being able to ride something you've built yourself.

Raven, yeah Tahoe is a bit far from the beach but there are huge granite boulders everywhere up here. Looks badass and they make good spots to start off from. I just want to know what hikers think when they go through the woods and find this place haha