well look what we got here it's gonna be a fun day in the dirt so we're gonna be
working on the dirt bike tracks today I'm gonna be tuning up the big bike
track here that's mostly what we'll be working on so I haven't done anything on
the big track in a couple years you can see it's really grown in with weeds so I
will be actually rerouting the track a little bit and then fixing up the
existing obstacles so this tabletop here I'll need to widen it a little bit and
it up being really skinny and then I had some drainage issues over here I'm gonna
correct that and just give everything a nice tune-up so I can spend some laps
this fall all right let's get to it
tables all wrapped up really pumped with how this thing came out cannot wait to
boot this thing on the 250 it's gonna be a lot of fun the dirt right now is just
perfect to some moisture net some parts are dry but yeah we have really really
good dirt out here no rocks in it whatsoever and I ended up smoothing off
the sides of the table a little better it's more of just making it look good
than anything it does help with keeping down the weeds too
I'm able to mow the size of the jump rather than having a weed whack it one
thing I've always thought that'd be super cool is having a big jump right in
line with the driveway so when you're driving down the driveway you just see
this big old Buddha right here so next up I'm going to tie in this table top
with the double back here and so I'm going to route it out that way go
straight back toward those houses kind of loop around come back this way and
then toward the double
so basically what I'm doing here is going on the edge of the track and
pushing dirt into where the track will be so think of it like a road it's gonna
have like a race center and it's going to laugh or water runoff on either side
and then also cool thing about it is I have a smooth side of the track so if I
want to do any filming out here I have a nice filming Lane
all right so it's the next day I ended up getting this section done yesterday
turned out really really good pretty pumped on it and then last night I was
burning the midnight oil and decided to work on the back section pretty much got
that all the way done - and the next thing I'll be doing is tying this
section into this double so it's gonna come out this way over and around and
then head back that way tying to the double and the double leads to the table
top so I only rented the bulldozer just for yesterday but I think I'm gonna
steal it for another day there's still a lot more work I'm gonna do out here
still need to fix up that double as well as that one and this section here
there's a lot more dirt I want to move there
pretty tough to beat these conditions those dirt primo right now I don't think
we'd get any better got a little bit of rain last night and the sun's starting
to come out a little bit so we should have a good day in the dirt out here
yeah should drain pretty good with this track raised up a little bit
it's hard when you're out in the field and there's no elevation at all so
pretty much just got to make my own so I was talking about adding some elevation
this is a probably an 8 or 10 foot hole right here and I've got a little single
another little roller here I think this is gonna be really cool
holy crap it's windy today though so anyways what I'm doing with this double
Here I am going to fill this in in the middle a little bit not completely but
just make it a little safer that way the neighbor kids come over and ride or
Haley decides to ride the track it won't be so such a steep transition in between
the jump there
got this jump all dialed in looking sweet and now I'm going to do the same
thing to this double over here
well I ran out of time with a dozer they just came and picked it up and I didn't
quite get to finishing up some of these loose edges but for the most part the
track is basically as done as I could have got I'm gonna get it out here in
the spring and build a roller section over here some jumps in the
straightaways I only have like three or four jumps on the track right now
so it'd be nice to add some more thanks for joining me on this track girls guys
I had a ton of fun pushing some dirt around out here I swear I have more fun
building the tracks and extra riding them that might be a sign I'm getting
old and I'll probably pick up this track build series in spring get the dozer out
here again and build some more obstacles so that should be a ton of fun as well
so a couple little pointers for you guys that are wanting to build a track on
your own if you've never built the track before I would head over to like the
dirt works website or MX track Builders website and go through all the pictures
that they have there that will give you some really good ideas on subtract
designs also head out to your local track and see how they angle everything
with the berms the jump faces of landings and that's probably the most
important part is getting all that right so for the track I'm building back here
it would take me about three or four days using a d3 sized bulldozer that's
the size I rented if you had something bigger might be able to do it in two
days for the place I rented it from it was 275 or 300 today not bad and then I
went through about let's see 55 gallons of diesel in two days so I'd imagine to
build a track like this you're looking at three days on the dozer and about 70
75 gallons worth of diesel now as far as how I designed my tracks I pretty much
just go on the fly I'll just start moving dirt and I guess that just kind
of comes with experience I've built a couple tracks in the past and so I'll
just start moving dirt see where it flows and then one thing that's always
helped me in the past is to lay the track all out don't put any jumps in or
obstacles and then ride the track see how it flows
make your changes before you add in any jumps because that's honestly where the
majority of the time is spent you know moving the dirt for the the jumps of
what not if you have good dirt on site I would rent a big bulldozer just move
dirt around there it'll be a lot cheaper than hauling in dirt if you have really
rocky soil I would recommend bringing in like a top soil to kind of have a nice
surface to build from and as far as the width of the track the track of building
here is 2 D 3 dozer wide if you're just doing a private track that's plenty wide
enough if you're doing a track like a public track that's gonna be raced on I
would do like two and a half or three wide and so I did the majority of the
work on this track with a bulldozer I also had a backhoe that didn't work very
well and then for a track like this the pit Mike tracks back there definitely
get a skid steer the bulldozer doesn't work very good on something like that
and one more thing I want to touch on is if you rent a dozer for one day it's
really hard to get a lot done you spend the majority that first day alerting the
machine kind of laying the track out and it's really on like day two or day three
where you can really start kicking ass and move in some serious dirt even for
me I've ran machines quite a bit in my life and the first day on the machine
I'm always kind of getting back up to speed with it and so I would do at
minimum two or three days on your rental
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