How to build a crawling course: step-by-step

[tapped-out]

heres a pic of my rock area @ my home its a little bigger on right side now. need more rocks either I use this or drive 35 miles to play.

[rockmike]

Originally Posted by Crawlerdude75

Good idea. Only problem is... it kinda premotes the growth of weeds. Which you really dont need nor want on a good crawler course. My suggestion-- before weeds grow on the dirt you put in, spray it with weed killer about once every 3 weeks to a month.

somthing thats workd really good for a smaller coarse to help keep weeds down is rock salt like you would use in youre water softner.A bit cheaper than roundup and i think it works better,ive found it last longer.

[rockmike]

another cool idea if you know someone who does pools,is just form out a coarse with dirt dig youre hills crevis's whatever yoy desire and have the guy come out and sprey it with the gunite and youve got a coarse,and you didnt evan have to brake youre back lifting heavy rock just played in the dirt and we all like to do that.

[LIKES2CRAWL]

Originally Posted by rockmike

another cool idea if you know someone who does pools,is just form out a coarse with dirt dig youre hills crevis's whatever yoy desire and have the guy come out and sprey it with the gunite and youve got a coarse,and you didnt evan have to brake youre back lifting heavy rock just played in the dirt and we all like to do that.

Yo, Mike....we need to do some add-ons to the rock quary!

[Hippygal]

Thanks for that - it has given me some ideas for how to build one for my son......

[rockmike]

Cool i piled a few rocks up in my back yard also.http://ewrcrc.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1199057217

[Thekingcrawler]

great ideas ill have to use a few of them

[bens170]

To Crawlerdude75,
Thanks for showing myself and many others how to build a rock crawling course, that is basically what I had in mind on building. It looks good. Any problem with the barrel cactus. I have had two runs in with cacti no more cactus for me. I will try and post my pictures, but I have to get the film developed using a 35mm camera. Not hi-tech yet.
Again thanks
bens170

[theclimber]

she looks more like scale

[Rupert]

Hard to find rocks like that in florida. Iv been crawling around on some crushed up concrete.

[j33p3r]

Great ideas! It is always a good idea to make it blend in so the new gardens intended purpose is not that obvious to others

[federally]

another cool way to add some flavor to your course is install one of the black tubs used for ponds. They ost prctically nothing, just need a hole dug for them, then pile rocks in them and add water. You can reate some cool wet rock courses with them.

[SOMD_BASHER]

i so need to build a track in my back yard

[TRD Offroad]

Round river rocks here in Upstate NY. Tough to crawl when wet. We try splitting a few to get some jagged edges exposed. Great thread.

[Toadady]

too bad the pics don't work anymore

[Mike Flea]

8yr old thread, what do you expect?, You want ideas, go here: Welcome to Smiggin's Folly