06/02/2024
🚨 video postponed 🚨
This weekend we were able to set up our newest addition to which has led us to posting the video next weekend 🫡 promise. We were not sure on if we were going to be able to haul this thing up with plans always needing to change for the better.. but we snuck in some time to get this playful thing in place.
The spot it’s on is where the mailbox originally sat last season. We weren’t expecting it to be such a hit so had thought of something a little bigger but in the same boat. This battleship is meant to be a polejam type feature with the option to hit just the top tube. The snow base we keep on the flat of our rail plaza is about 8 inches to a foot. Bigger snowfalls are something harder to handle with keeping the base the same with having features dug into the ground, or ones like this one we won’t want to be moving in the winter lol. But with that base and a little bit of a lip following the slope/a bit steeper of the up of the battleship for the top tube to be optimized. Most of the extra snow from clearing out the plaza was dumped off the one side where we weren’t doing anything with but now it will go in and fill up some distance of how high the yellow rail stands. That’s because theflat has been extended 7 feet out with using the berm that was made from the extra dirt from last summers project. We put it all under the battleship which has made a bit of a drop off from it toward the yellow rail. We might come back to make that drop off more gradual and re slope the landing a bit more to give the slope to flat more curve so it won’t be so abrupt riding out. Can’t wait to see what gets done on this! Hopefully it’s as big of a hit as the mailbox 🤞 Thank you for lending your machine 🙏 and dyllon and Matt for some help. The feedback from different angles and balancing the rail out made it go by so much quicker then if he was alone. Solid effort guys thank you, now bring on the snow ❄️