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Old 08-22-2017, 03:33 PM   #1
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Default Building a course in my yard.

So Ive decided that I am going to start turning one of my flowerbeds into a course, and would like tips, and ideas on what to add and do. Im planing on enlarging the flower bed to 6ftx26ft, grading the soil beneath it for drainage and adding a weed barrier, then filling in 2-3in of gravel as a base. Is that a good idea or do I need to add a deeper base of gravel. Also what size gravel should I use for the base? I plan on mostly using a Scale crawler/trail truck for the time being (TRX-4)

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Old 02-05-2018, 12:24 PM   #2
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So Ive decided that I am going to start turning one of my flowerbeds into a course, and would like tips, and ideas on what to add and do. Im planing on enlarging the flower bed to 6ftx26ft, grading the soil beneath it for drainage and adding a weed barrier, then filling in 2-3in of gravel as a base. Is that a good idea or do I need to add a deeper base of gravel. Also what size gravel should I use for the base? I plan on mostly using a Scale crawler/trail truck for the time being (TRX-4)
I would not add the gravel. Truck is just going to spin on it when you're in a bind or climbing. Mostly, you just want to add larger boulders with some smaller and medium ones thrown in. I did a little area in my backyard and just continued to move the boulders around and tweak it after I drove on it for a bit. The key is to make it challenging and offer yourself plenty of different line options so it doesn't get old. Depending on how elaborate you wanna get, you could add ladder bridges, rope bridges, etc.

Search youtube - there are some killer track builds on there with plenty of ideas from very basic to completely off the charts!
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Old 02-05-2018, 05:06 PM   #3
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Here's a link to another user's backyard course build. It's pretty friggin sweet.

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