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Personal rock courses?

looking good guys! I don't have a course at my house, but I have places close by! Moabs, Lil, and big, Kiwanias Park, the rock, etc. Still working on the crawler anyway!"thumbsup"
 
NICE home crawl spots guys, i actuly took over my wife's back yard pond project and truned it into my own in ground crawl spot. ill snap som shots, iv got about 2' of inclned rocks, a few 8' rails and just about anything else i could pull from the yard to build my lill spot. i could use about 1/2ton more large rocks but so go's life.
 
Ok, so its not at my house but it's like 5 minutes from my moms place...very fun and challenging!
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My 2.2 rockpile is about 5' by 20' and the rocks get moved around often when I get bored with the course.

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My Super course is not easy even when the water is off.

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OH, and I can walk to Folsom Lake if I want a another challenge! :):):)
 
Got these by way of my neighbor taking out one of our small trees. There's a little more off into the background of the picture, but this has just been sitting since my dad got this property and moved these as sort of a retaining wall for the hill side. I'm going to have to stack some extra rocks into it to make a couple more lines doable, but it's a good start for not having to do anything. Bonus is that it's on the back side of my fire pit, perfect for winter wheeling.
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The back wall, a couple rocks stacked at the bottom to take up that hole and this should be crawlable.
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JeeperCreeper......I LOVE your back yard...its awesome, always wanted something like that made here at my place!
How long did it take you to do alll that water falls?
 
Well, back when I was an idiot and only 14 years old, and I had like 4 accounts :roll:, I made this thread (under my old username of Crawlerdude75)- http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76691&highlight=build+crawling

The course isn't very big considering I run a super, 15', maybe 20', by 15', so yeah, about 20'x15', I am unsure of the exact dimensions. I did 98% of the work, with a little help from a VERY sturdy industrial wagon and the resources of my grandparents (the supplies, and landscaping advice). I made a nice little foot path through it so it would appear less purposful to most people, as though it was just landscaping, not a crawler course. http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76691&highlight=build+crawling I have a video of my crawler running on it, too(in the part of the video where it goes to an almost full view of the course, the video is sped up, just wanted to let you all know so you didn't wonder why the crawler moved so rapidly)-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlouThTVJqw

Oh and JeepCreeper, your backyard course/stream/water feature/landscaping is really nice. Man, I wish I had a course that challenging for my super...
 
Thanks Moparman,

I can only take credit for the vision, the rough in of water lines, and makin the scratch to pay for a crew of 5 to actually do the grunt work. :lol: The water feature probably took 2 weeks and the whole yard about 5. It was just finished in early October. I have run both my supers and 2.2s in the creekbed and it is pretty much impossible without a helping hand here and there. It sure is fun trying though.

The side yard rock pile was all me and I have the dents in my truck bed to prove it. :shock:
 
Jeeper Creeper said:
I have run both my supers and 2.2s in the creekbed and it is pretty much impossible without a helping hand here and there. It sure is fun trying though.
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I could understand the 2.2's having trouble, but the super! Wow, that must be ALOT tougher than it looks. How high is each one of those step ups on there?
 
The pictures don't really do it justice.....I agree it looks somewhat easy. It's kinda like when I take my CJ7 on the Rubicon Trail and get to a tough spot where the CJ is almost ready to flop (or it feels like it anyway). I have someone take a picture and look at it later and it looks like a dirt road. I have noticed that the pictures are really deceiving.

One thing that makes the falls tough are flagstone ledges that suck in the tires, especially the 2.2 size but even the 40 series moabs. I need about a 10" tall tire.:lol:
 
Jeeper Creeper said:
The pictures don't really do it justice.....I agree it looks somewhat easy. It's kinda like when I take my CJ7 on the Rubicon Trail and get to a tough spot where the CJ is almost ready to flop (or it feels like it anyway). I have someone take a picture and look at it later and it looks like a dirt road. I have noticed that the pictures are really deceiving.

One thing that makes the falls tough are flagstone ledges that suck in the tires, especially the 2.2 size but even the 40 series moabs. I need about a 10" tall tire.:lol:
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Whoa... that's like, insane. lol. What do you mean the ledges suck in tires? Like is it an undercut or something?
 
Yeah, that's it. The flagstone ledges hang over so the water falls instead of just streaming down. It's for effect....visual and sound. The only way to make it is to climb the walls and run the edges and then drop back down here and there. I think the ideal rig would be a 14 incher with 6 inch tires and 4WS. What the heck, I may have to convert one of my supers. You know, I have a 17" NN that is very easy to shorten to about 14 or 14.5". Anyway, it's better to have rocks that are too hard rather than too easy.
 
Jeeper Creeper said:
Yeah, that's it. The flagstone ledges hang over so the water falls instead of just streaming down. It's for effect....visual and sound. The only way to make it is to climb the walls and run the edges and then drop back down here and there. I think the ideal rig would be a 14 incher with 6 inch tires and 4WS. What the heck, I may have to convert one of my supers. You know, I have a 17" NN that is very easy to shorten to about 14 or 14.5". Anyway, it's better to have rocks that are too hard rather than too easy.
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Why shorten the wheelbase of the NN when you can just make it sit up a bit higher? When I go somewhere to crawler with some really tall leadges to get up and over, but not so steep the tip the crawler, I just raise the ride height. My NN is a 16.5'', with I think 4.5'' or 5'' of center clearance, and I dont even have high clearance rear links, and I can have the crawler almost straight up and down and it wont fall over backwards, and it will go up almost anything. Try it, and see how it works. BTW, what tires do you run? I run standard BFT's from a Monster GT.
 
I run moabs or moab XLs. I have a set of giant tracs that I put on some maximizer rims but haven't run these yet. Yeah, I can raise it as I am running it as a drooper now. I also have a 16" stick but haven't run it on the rocks yet.
 
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