Well, I've figured out how to put my bigass yard to some use. Build a jump! Because my folks won't want me tearing it up too badly, I'm only planning on about a 8ish-9ish foot gap, but that isn't what this topic is about.
At my friends bigass yard across the street, we built a makeshift jump with about 7 feet in between (again, not the point, just for the sake of reference) it's pretty good and it works, but it's far away (in quality) from the DJ's down near the creek, that are a reddish dirt color and are hard. Anyway, it rained today, and I'm guessing the jump is kinda fvcked up . . .
My question: what is the best way to make jumps out of softer brown dirt STAY hard? Do I just pack them A LOT? The landing isn't so much of an issue, it's just gotta stay level. That's easy enough.
BTW: yes: cinder blocks were/are going to be used to keep the jump from wobbling.
At my friends bigass yard across the street, we built a makeshift jump with about 7 feet in between (again, not the point, just for the sake of reference) it's pretty good and it works, but it's far away (in quality) from the DJ's down near the creek, that are a reddish dirt color and are hard. Anyway, it rained today, and I'm guessing the jump is kinda fvcked up . . .
My question: what is the best way to make jumps out of softer brown dirt STAY hard? Do I just pack them A LOT? The landing isn't so much of an issue, it's just gotta stay level. That's easy enough.
BTW: yes: cinder blocks were/are going to be used to keep the jump from wobbling.