Hey guys, it is springtime here in the northwest
And you know what that means time to tune up the dirt bike tracks got the pit bike track back there
Big bike track is behind me over there
So pretty excited to move some dirt around
got the handy bandit shovel out here called the
skid steer
And that's what we're gonna be playing with today
Just frickin knock my head on the top of this thing good start
Alright so basically what we're gonna be doing out here on pit bike track is
Just freshening it up from winter time and then we've got a few sections that I want to change here
I'll take out that kind of single there
Change this dragons back section and do like a step-up rebuild the tabletop
Make that tabletop a little bit bigger. Just I don't know a bunch of changes. It's crazy
I built this track probably four years ago, and it's still in really good shape. Nothing's really to write it out
I mean granted it's a pit bike track a little bit of ruts over here and whatnot
But yeah, it's crazy how little maintenance a pit bike track takes
So we're kind of running out of sunlight here
Ended up finishing up this little table top, but I underestimated how soft it is out here still pretty muddy
Should have waited another a couple weeks before I dug into this stuff and then over here pretty much got the single out of here
and
the Dragons back
turning this into
Kind of a step up. So the takeoffs gonna be right about here and
Gonna reuse the landing here. Just smooth it out
All right
So it's the next day and we're dealing with a little bit of rain today on top of the muddy soil
We already have here gonna be a little bit tough a little update for you guys finished up the take off to the step up
Smooth out this little straight section here
Freshened up the bolt turn hard to beat the look of that man. This rain is a relentless today. It just will not go away
So I finished up the landing to the step-up. It's a little bit short. I may have to move it back a little bit and
Then got the bolt turn done
Freshened up this little jump. This berm is all ready to go. And I think what I'm gonna do over here is
Everyone always goes to the inside on this corner doesn't really use the burn much
So I'm gonna make the inside a little bit off camber kind of like this right here
So that way it kind of evens out inside versus outside
We got a little bit of camber going on in this corner, but this dirt is not cooperating with me today
Oh you like it
We're definitely making some progress now
Got the face of the tabletop widened and shaped
Landings all finished up that bull corner is all prepped now all I have left
Is this roller section the little rhythm section here?
I'm going to freshen up the berm and then there's a far kind of rhythm section over here
I don't know what I'm going to do with it quite yet
So I thought I'd jump on here and show you guys how exactly I'm getting this roller section or like this whoop section smooth out
So I'm gonna start at the very end and go backwards
This button here is the float button
So basically that floats the over everything and you can do pretty much or you can do quite a bit with this boat
but here so I'm going to go with the
Fucking basic down not completely vertical a little bit of tilt to it
That poor button
Reverse
and I'm a drag dirt until I got to
Start rolling the bucket back to pack that there try and pick it up a little bit
Smooth it over
Back over the ruler I'm gonna tilt the bucket
- like I would say 3/4 of the way
Vertical to drag the valley
Load it down in the pocket
Over the roller
Back gotta go pretty slow the machine for this so that way to catch up and doesn't drop the dirt in the pocket
Looking good
This is probably one of the harder things to do is build a nice consistent set a rule or a whoop section
At the pockets the top
Like the basic concept of making a ruler section obviously starting from scratch takes a little longer
rebuilding on
Really isn't too hard once you get the role in hello
Figure it out
now if you didn't want to
Pick up the roller. What you could do is turn the bucket to like three-quarter vertical
Just blowing it all the way through and i'ma pull dirt from the valley and the cooler and I'll smooth everything out
And the more vertical you go with the bucket like this the border is going to pull
So I like to go about 3/4 vertical
We're not pulling Jewish dirt out of the valleys, all right now for smooth me on a bull turn
I like to start at the center of it
I'm gonna go up to it
drag it and then work one way like this and then the other way this one's going to need a little bit of
Help on the exit it keeps pushing out. So I'm going to drag it back in and
The entrance looks pretty good. I'm going to try to shape it or
Less than the angle on it, then it's angle is pretty sharp right now
Other than that, it's a lot about using the float as well gonna be using the float on this and this back dragging it down
So this berm started to push up or kind of blow it out at the top and a lot of the dirt came down
So I'm gonna scrape that dirt back up pile it up and then shape it and drag it back down
And I always like to go over the back side of the berm
get the bucket over the back side to float it and
Then roll it over the top to try to pack it in. That way. Does it get blowing out quite as easily?
If you pack the top of it in the backside of a little bit
That helps maintain the integrity of the berm
So now I'm gonna work this way I'm gonna finish this side of it and then I'll do the entrance of it
That's a lot of dirt on this one if I get behind float it roll it over
Down and I want to get to the bottom. I like to tilt the bucket or roll the bucket like this
So to make a nice slope down
so basically, what I like to do is get the drift piled up and
Kind of in the shape that I want and then I'll go through and fine-tune it like make sure it's all
Uniform after I get all the dirty in place. I don't miss really
Picky about
How everything looks we had like an Mart, you know building a a track is basically a heart to me
So this entrance is a little bit
Too far out. Someone try to bring it in a little bit that way it actually winds up with the table here. So
I think I'm gonna want some more dirt to
Film the bottom here that way it doesn't roll the water doesn't sit right there and then also to bring this verb out
To go scrape a little bit from the field
Seems like we're gonna have a little bit of hockey here or so
Might have to add a little bit of dirt in this corner that way it's not smooth and then like a pocket right here
You want it? So it's consistent all the way around
You generally want your entrance and exit a little bit more sloped or less looped I should say because you don't need as much
much of a Bank
Compared to like in the center you wanted more slope that way you can carry more speed and
on the exit or entrance
It doesn't matter as much because you're not you really using that Bank quite as much
How we get less slope is by tilting the bucket or on the bucket forward like this
well it
And that gives us a little less slope
Any other half of this burn really quick
Shouldn't really take much Sun too bad shape. It's usually we exits that get blowing out
So now that I got the majority of the corner
Built on the noose of fine-tuning looks like the middle that needs a little bit of work and
The inches looks good the exit it's kind of a sharp cutoff
So I'm gonna drag that down a little bit and ease the transition
into the tabletop
Pretty frickin sloppy out here right now
Thankfully, it's just this one corner
Rest of the tracks in pretty good shape. So we've made quite a bit of progress out here got
Pretty much all the sections done
So we're gonna be building a big single here. It's gonna come down into a little double. I
Just want to switch up the section a little bit. It's
been the same section for you a couple years now, but
Yeah, I just wanted to add some elevation out here
Getting a little crazy out here got a hail storm
This is insane now the dirt come along pretty good
All righty guys, it's a couple days later finished up the track build
It's pretty good for the most part didn't get it quite as perfect as I would have hoped
You can see a lot of this mud. I already dried up
So I can go ahead and touch this thing up a little bit later on
But yeah pretty pumped how it turned out. It should be a lot of fun later on
so as soon as I heal up from this little surgery, I had the other day just had surgery on my
Chest and neck here this little spot here. You'll see me out here ripping
The 110 on the track should be a lot of fun and I think we're gonna put together a video for that too
And if you want to see more track build videos definitely let me know down in the comments section
I'm gonna get a dozer out here and work on the big track back here. So that's gonna be a lot of fun
Hope you guys enjoyed this one. I'll see you guys soon