this is always my favorite time of year when all the snow melts and got a
see the track come to life and everything's Greening up out here so we're gonna check out
the track see what kind of damage happened over winter and get it all freshened up
I'm basically just going to till it reface all the jumps The Landings
now what I like to use for ripping the track is this this set as well as a I guess they
call it a cultivator or kind of a harrow drag and that kind of Smooths it out if
you disc it only it leaves like these deep grooves and as soon as you get on the track
it's like pulling your bike all over so I'll start by ripping the track and reverse like
reverse Direction so I don't have to go up the jump faces and then we'll actually
rip the tops of the table tops just for the kids so they're a little smoother
sections of the track I just set the discs all the way in let her eat
makes first and pretty awesome soil
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very good all right the track is completely tilled now I'm going to prep the jump faces
it's always a good idea to till first because it's going to kind of mess with your jump faces so you
want to clean those up afterwards and as you can see when you drag the jumps it pulls a lot
of dirt to the bottom and that just happens over a winter too A lot of the water runoff and also
riding brings the dirt to the bottom so what I'm going to do here is scrape from the bottom peek
it back up and then shape it and get it nice and smooth and uh packed in that way it's not
all uh soft and like it's not going to bog the bikes now as you take off of it
so now that I've got the bottom dug out I'm going to kind of pack this
down get it level and then start going backwards roll it over and
you can either use float or you can just use pressure from the bucket
a little steep
the pressure as you're going down that'll keep a nice concave up the
jump so I'm going to not have it quite as sharp of an angle in the bucket push it down
and drag it down that looks a lot better
obviously this is really slow with the front end loader you can do it
really quick with a skid steer or a dozer but now
I'm just gonna kind of pack it in and then float it just to get it perfect
all right now to finish it off I'm gonna float the face so that's basically just
letting the bucket float down the jump so like on a front end loader if you push the
the lever all the way up so you want to get the right angle right about there
let it float and then reverse it can kind of pivot the bucket as you go down
ah that wasn't that great and I'll continue floating it back about I don't know 15 feet
so that way the lead up to the jump is nice and smooth
that's a little better
so after I finish the jump face I like to walk on it make sure it's actually packed
in there's so much moisture in this dirt it's going to be kind of Muddy I like to get off the
tractor and look at the face make sure it's not all humped out sometimes on the tractor
you can't really tell this looks pretty clean at the bottom there's a bit of a hump it's not
a huge deal I might just float it one more time in the center there yeah that's basically how I
shape jumps with the tractor it's not the fastest but you can get it
looking really clean it's a good idea to prep The Landings of the jumps too that
way you're not Landing the pile of bush I'm basically I'm just gonna float it
kind of start at the top
get that thing level and then explode it backwards
and then as you go over the crest of the landing foreign
that's pretty much it this will kind of seal in the top and pack it somewhat
all right that's it for that jump we're gonna move on to the rest of the track now
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thank you track us all dialed in looking super sexy I just want to go freaking ride now man
this is pumping me up so I don't think I gave you guys an update on kind of the changes I
made in the track over the past couple years it's called this like the Talladega corner it's like
basically six feet below grade the past couple years I've had issues with it draining and so
I spent a lot of time making a little pool at the bottom there as you can see it drains right
into that low spot and all the water runs off the track so that's been a lot better
and then I actually took out all the berms on the track all flat corners and my reason for doing
that mainly because I don't like maintaining berms it's a lot of work it's a lot of upkeep
to fix all the ruts and build it back up whereas you saw today all I did was take the discs drag
the track and prep the jump faces in The Landings and that was it and also I think it makes a better
Rider when you have flat Corners because you have more ruts you're relying on a rut and not
the berm to hold your speed now something else I changed here was the side of the track I kind
of made it dip down just for drainage and that's made a big difference all the snow melts kind of
pulled up right alongside the track here and the track dried out a lot quicker so that way we can
get to riding sooner and also I made this table top about 10 feet longer compared to last year
I think last year we measured it at like 55 so it's about 65 Now Plenty safe enough and
plenty big enough to have some fun on now as we come down here this is another low spot in
the track I dug out the sides quite a bit here you can see the water pulls up outside the track
which is a lot better used to just be super muddy right down here tracks in a lot better shape this
year this is probably the best track has ever looked and so I'm ready to freaking ride next
video you guys see will be tearing the crap out of this track on some two strokes and
probably uh throwing some goon whips I'm already starting to look at the track and think of ways
to make it better I'm thinking this double over here I want to extend it make it like a tabletop
style Landing kick it out like another 10 or 15 feet because that jump honestly you come
into it with so much speed you have to slow down this little double I want to make that a little
bigger as well but still keep it really safe for like kids and stuff if you see anything else
we could do out here write it down below in the comment section let me know what your ideas are
but anyways we'll see you in the next video we'll be tearing the [ __ ] out of this track [Music]