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07-11-2008, 08:25 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Columbus OH
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|  North East Columbus Backyard Coarse
I have been into R/C since 12/07 and have quickly found my love in crawling. I started hitting Cowboys Tuesday night crawler thing about 3.5 months ago and needed my "fix" on a more regular basis. For the last few months I have been working on my backyard coarse and I wanted to share my pics and ups and down with you all. My hope was to build a fun and comp worthy coarse for as little to no cash. The "no cash" option was destroyed right off the bat. Lets face it you cant do anything for free. I considered going all natural rock and realized how long it would take me to collect all I would need, especially to build up the higher areas. I also thought about building the raised areas up using wood forms but then decided that the wood may start to break down and was even more of an eye sore than a huge pile of rocks in my yard. I finaly decided to shape the coarse with #2 recycled concrete and to surface that with natural rock. I found a place by the airport that sold the concrete for about $8 a ton and I had six tons dropped in my front yard. Holy crap I would not ever want to do that again. Although I am happy with the turn out, This was the biggest pain in the butt I have ever put myself through. I didn't realize that you cant shovel this stuff. After 3 days and many hours I got it moved.  |
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07-11-2008, 08:38 PM
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Done yet?
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07-11-2008, 09:24 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Columbus OH
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I forgot to mention in the last post that prior to putting down the concrete, I used a herbicide to kill any current growth and layed down ladscaping fabric to prevent future issues. I suggest the fabric over plastic for drainage and pest prevetion. With this done and the base of cocrete down I was ready to get the face on. With the cost of rocks at stone centers and the fact they are natural and everywhere, I chose to collect my own. This took a while but saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars. At a guess, I would say I used between 5 and seven tons. Total cost: FREE. I was able to get all of them at nearby construction sites. Just ask the foreman. Most of the upturned stone is scrap and you will be doing them a favor. It took me about 10 trips over a couple of weeks with a Ram 1500. All thats left is to get to work building and surfacing. As of tonight I would say I am 98% done. I hope to have a get together in a few more weeks. Until then, here are a few more pics to look at.  |
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07-11-2008, 09:25 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:26 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:28 PM
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Ready to lose there too?  Just kidding Bobster. That looks super fantastic. Invite me over anytime.  You shovel looks severely tweaked.  |
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07-11-2008, 09:29 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbus
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Looks good man, Im in your neck of the woods(new albany). Shoot me a pm if you ever want another rig on ur rocks.
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07-11-2008, 09:30 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:30 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:31 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:32 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:32 PM
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Bob, your truck's steering looks broken in the one picture of it crawling up the slanted rock thing.
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07-11-2008, 09:32 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:33 PM
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Holy crap man! That's a lot bigger than the first twenty pictures made it look!
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07-11-2008, 09:34 PM
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07-11-2008, 09:38 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Columbus OH
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Thanks guys. I will let you guys know as soon as all is ready. Yeh, my steering is F'ed. but I wanted my baby in the pics for a size referance. And the shovel is like that by design/ Saves your back a bit in the snow. |
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07-11-2008, 09:41 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Columbus OH
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Oh Yeh, THE ENROUTE IS IN ROUTE!!!!
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07-11-2008, 09:48 PM
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Make tha steep thing steeper!
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07-11-2008, 09:53 PM
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| support@rc4wd.com   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lancaster, Ohio
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Yea. It will never work I forgive you Bob Felthersnatch only if Im allowed to come play . Seriously I was just screwing with you man I got them sold .
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07-11-2008, 10:31 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Columbus OH
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Hell yeh you can come play. It cant be for a bit though. I aint gots no crawler!! I snapped my driver front c hub and have to wait till the new one shows and the Berg will not be ready for about a week and a half/ just ordered motors with the ax hub and need a battery still. Any of you guys got a 3 cell at a good price? |
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