Probably put tarps over the important jumps or the takeoffs. This should keep them a bit more unharmed from the bad weather. Sooo stoked to see you back at it again.💥🤘
@@aaronbutt6960 ya. Carpet is rad just a pain cause it’s heavy. But you can hit your jumps with the carpet on no big deal plus it will hold the moisture so when you uncover. If you want to. You can usually shape the jump up really easy. I use it as much as I can. Literally have a roll sitting in my garage for jumps.
When they're rebuilt, look into applying soil bonding agents to the jumps. Theyre essentially a glue that binds everything together and makes the surface close to waterproof. Its used on a lot of BMX tracks to maintain the surface and stop water erosion. Tarps are a cheaper but more labour intensive option.
As well as the tarp/carpet suggestion you lads should consider grass seeding the sides of jumps once reshaped. If you can get the seed growing during spring should help stabilise the soil for the rest of the year and helps significantly with rain erosion, the sq m2 of un-ridden soil adds up there! Probably want a more drought tolerant grass/meadow variety with wildflowers 🐝 I’ve enjoyed the channel for many years now, keep it up lads🤘
This is part of building trails in the northern, wetter climates, after winter. You can try to protect them as much as possible, but mother nature always wins. We are still many weeks out from proper dig days on trails here. Mostly just wet management right now. Feel your pain, fellas but it is fun to get them running again.
Tarps help but to really help keep the jumps shape, if you sprinkle a little bit of concrete on every time you sweep and wet the jumps after a few times you should have no worries about winter
1) aesthetic builds aren't always the most resilient. Those vertical faces with soil aren't going to hold through winter. 2) You're right, a lot of the work is done, 'just' some reshaping to get a lot of that riding again. 3) Find a local geotech engineer that is into MTB... Have them take a look at the soil, etc... it may be as easy as mixing some cement in the final build phase, adding some material so that all of the faces are battered, etc. 4) I can only imagine how Jamie is feeling seeing all of his finish work on the ground. Stoked to see where this all goes.
Unfortunately any uncovered jumps built completely out of just dirt are prone to this outcome. Its partly why i build all my features using mostly logs and rocks as fill. Even uncovered they fare winters and rain sooo much better
I'm so glad to see that The Playground will be resurrected. I was worried that Matt had only signed a 1 year lease and the new plyground would mean that he was just going to leave this behind rather than rebuild it for 1-2 months. I know we (fans) all want sick content, but at the end of the day, there's a business side to content that needs to pay leases, pay Ben, etc. etc. I'm glad The Playground is still a part of the business plan because it's my favorite feature on the channel. Good luck with the refinishing, I can't wait to see what creativity and new ideas come out of the ruins.
I work on a build crew and we watched you build this and we figured everything was gonna fall apart. You built pretty looking jumps. But you didn't think of longevity
Maybe try compacting the dirt as you build it. So if you dump dirt on the jump, compact it before you dump the next load of dirt on it. For me it worked quite nice. Thisway you basically make layers while building the jump and in the middle its already pre compacted and not just the outside is compacted. Also if you have the time to take care of it, maybe plant grass on the sides except the landing and jump, this way the sides are also strengthened due to the roots.
Stay positive, I ended up making the sides of my jumps less steep for easier maintanence. It means adding alot more dirt but it also looks cool when it all grows in.
Pipe line has a lot of natural drainage which is going help. It would definitely be worth adding drainage in the low spots. Even if you dig a ditch and fill with rock. So water has a chance to drain
Arrr sorry to see the damage Matt. One of the main problem is when your building you need to compact the soil in from the start in 100mm layers max if by foot and shovel, or bit more by machine by driving over it. Also clay will expand contract a lot in hot cold, dry wet weather. I'm a Landscaper so have learnt by the same problems over many years on jobs and building trails years ago!!!
you want straws and leaves in it for water drainage, I think the water is making them crack when evapouration occurs, if you create natural run off, less water, less evap, good luck lads 👊
BUmmed that the elements have done a right number on the Playground. On the upside, it's an opportunity to implement any improvements you can up with after building any of the features before. I'm sure it will be back, bigger, radder and badder than ever.
Excited for PlyGround and PlayGround this spring! You mates are amazing. Wonder if you are able to provide any updates on event schedule for the coming season? Crankworx? Hardline? Would love to take my son to see you live in comp. Cheers!
If your willing to invest you could cap everything with a fine grade. Depending on what is naturally in your area, granit or lime can work well. If you try to use lime where granit is naturally present you will find that it won't bind (think it's science). Capping will minimized water seeping into the jumps and allow its to flow above ground .
Should get a couple bags of cement dry mix with stuff with out the sand and gravel. Fix everything up and get it fairly smooth then dust it with the cement powder wet and finish smoothing. It should harden the outter crust and keep it from collapsing in the weather. Won't do much else and shouldn't end up much harder than you ramps already are after they dry out.
So sorry to see the state of the playground, it's every trail diggers nightmare to see scenes like this at their spot. Some advice for the jumps.... Try to pack the dirt in a bit more as you go. It looks like you pile it all up and whack everything from all sides when it looks big enough, then add on some more dirt as needed. this does make the outside faces of the jumps pretty hard and rideable but the dirt inside will still be soft. This is why you've had such big collapses during winter, the rain penetrates the outside crust and gets to the soft insides then it gets saturated and gives way. Many peeps have advised tarps or carpet. this does help for sure and is definitely a good shout to help keep them intact, but it's best to do a proper job first and pack the dirt in as you build the jumps back up. Think of it as layers, every few barrow loads have a good stomp around on top and whack all the sides in a bit. Then you can move onto the next layer with a good solid base underneath... "It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies." best of luck guys, can't wait to see you all shredding again!!
lets goo its back I have been waiting 6 months for this series too come back pls don"t give up on rebuilding this! you got this Matt!!! and i have an idea you should name the individual ramps at the ply-ground!
Covers/tarps. There is a reason all the big trails are using them now. Even the jump I made in lockdown is still exactly how I left it 2 and a half years ago.
Our recent socal storms reaked havoc on a bunch of builds. Fixed them then round two of the storms came in knocked out everything over again. The focus amongst all the diggers now is drainage and stabilization after all the rain.
This is so sad to see. But you boys will get it tuned up in no time. You’re making me dread what my trails are going to look like when the snow melts in like May.
The good news is that the line still exists. Rebuilding is not the same as making from scratch. But there is bad news. For stability, such figures should be built with at least layer-by-layer (30 cm layer) compaction with a vibrating plate. Ideally, the bottom should contain gravel for density and drainage. Also, the use of geotextiles under the top layer will increase the stability of the figures. Geotextile distributes the load on the canvas and allows water to drain. Another useful thing that is in America is soiltac (material for strengthening the soil), if you process the line correctly, you will get eternal dirt (probably). One of the main mistakes that led to this state of the site - the figures were not covered with polyethylene. This greatly reduces shape time. In addition, I advise you to buy large stones and lay out all the side parts of the figures with them. Also, slopes should be made more gentle and grass should be planted on them. A lot of work. Good luck and patience. Greetings from Russian trail builders.
I would recommend getting bricks for retaining walls to hold the primo dirt together on the sides and back. However that’s if the playground is a long term investment. Or you just take them to the next location. 🤙🏼
perfect opportunity to make little changes you have surely dreamt about: also... the dirt has compacted and settled as it always will, and we're just getting an extreme glimpse of it having not seen it thru the wet season. You're going to have to add dirt to everything to make it the existing height
Just bare in mind we live in the uk an building re/building at this time of year with sporadic rainfall cover anything newly built as any rain will wash out the new stuff
I'M GUTTED FOR YOU DUDES The Phrase "It's easier to obtain than to maintain" comes to mind. Sandy clay is great as long as you pack it in and let it harden! Advice from the rainforest: TARPS AND A VIBRATING COMPACTOR, BOYS. IDK what you value your team's time at hourly, but I can promise you some old billboard coverings and a $500 compactor will pay for themselves very fast.
SUGGESTION/COOL IDEA!!! Since you are most likely committed to redoing/fixing whatever you don't protect each spring, you could change some things up. I think it would be cool to do something with the big quarter. You could set it up with two outside hits kinda like in the PLYground, or vice versa one middle hit to two outside landing at different angles/ distances.
Old carpet flipped upside down works good for keeping your lips intact, just doesn't look the best but w.e. you guys will get it dialed again Also concrete mixed in the dirt would help alot
Please take this as an opportunity to fix some of the lines.. I feel as though some of them could be re designed. Lockdown build felt rushed and there’s no need to rush playground. Looking forward to the continuation of playground🔥
Put on a feed, invite all your homie's to the playground for a resurrection and ride day! Would be cool to see a big ride session with heaps of people!
I saw Ben's tyre marks on the landing of the left hip, you could run that same tyre in the fresh mud now and measure the difference in length of the tread vs the old mark to get a rough idea of how much the jumps have shrunk.
My advice would be to add dirt to all the features that collapsed, Don’t just take the dirt that fell down and stack it back up so steep. Add the dirt, make it nice and square but keep the sides and back at more of an angle. Then next winter tarp as much as you can.
Trails are like cars, or bikes, you can build them, but if you don't take care of them and don't maintain them, they will eventually breakdown and fall apart! Tarps, and carpets are trails best covers for outdoor trails! Since the beginning of the 90s, we have been covering our trails with carpet & tarps.
Perfect time to consider using carpets and other materials to help hold the shapes and form a consistent surface next time you re-do them... you are lucky that the weeds have not taken over the area...
I see the local park's crew struggle with the rainy season (Costa Rica, UK-like muck for 5 months). I have heard - might be an urban (forest) legend - that mixing a little cement into the dirt greatly helps with weather erosion. Maybe it is worth a try with one feature and go from there. Also, as others said: tarps or 2nd hand (free/cheap) wall-to-wall carpet from an office building would help with the rain not demolishing everything
Mixing crete would definitely help, but also this is the downside of building jumps completely out of primo dirt. Jumps built with fill such as logs and rocks AND dirt fare MUCH better to the weather. But i cant beleive he never tarped or carpeted a single jump... that would have saved him soooo much headache
Sad to see the jumps in this condition. We used Trasskalk (Trass lime, not sure if the translator got this right) to harden our jumps. The got rockhard and did not crack in the winter but they where not that steep and it is a different soil. But maybe it could be worth a try? You need to mix it into the top 10 centimetres of the soil. After some rain and dry times it gets really hard.
@@Jrockjeff We did not try those materials because they are not as natural as Trass lime. Our local authorities did only allow us to bring Trass lime out into nature. But I guess cement would be even more hard but maybe too hard if you want to change something on the jumps.
Maybe consider some thoughts about the durability of the builds..viewers may get the feeling that if they build something it will totally fall apart till the next year..when the walls are not so steep..just the angle of the wet dirt slope that stays there without packing it with showel when you are building it..that will fill with grass in a year and will not fall apart at all..and will stay there forever.. I know that it is not so steezy, but after inevitable fresh build repair or two the jump is going to stay there no matter rain or anything.. I mean just to talk about this so the potential builders are not discouraged by the total destruction of this kind of build.. 🔥
design is one thing..need to repair fresh jumps two times..but then it is better..the dirt is settled..so it is going to last..also the factor of riding the jump frequently constatly packs it and makes it more durrable..etc..
Mix in concrete with dirt when u re surface the jumps and it helps we have a similar problems with our jumps coming apart and we did the concrete trick and they stay together year round
Cover them up when your not riding after you re build. and maybe close them down over winter completely cover and stack down. Good luck keep up the good work
Honestly could have spent $500 in 4- 6 mil plastic and a days worth of tidying up, then come back to just drying out flat bottoms and simple patch work...
A lot of the dirt will have been worn down to sediment and washed away with the rain or even dissolved in the rainwater so the jumps will inevitably have shrunk a bit unfortunately, may require a bit of a top up
Probably put tarps over the important jumps or the takeoffs. This should keep them a bit more unharmed from the bad weather. Sooo stoked to see you back at it again.💥🤘
yes put tarps on them
I'm really surprised that they failed to tarp everything when leaving it for the winter.
Tarps and old carpet baby 💪🏻👌🙏🏻
Carpet?
@@aaronbutt6960 ya. Carpet is rad just a pain cause it’s heavy. But you can hit your jumps with the carpet on no big deal plus it will hold the moisture so when you uncover. If you want to. You can usually shape the jump up really easy. I use it as much as I can. Literally have a roll sitting in my garage for jumps.
When they're rebuilt, look into applying soil bonding agents to the jumps. Theyre essentially a glue that binds everything together and makes the surface close to waterproof. Its used on a lot of BMX tracks to maintain the surface and stop water erosion.
Tarps are a cheaper but more labour intensive option.
As well as the tarp/carpet suggestion you lads should consider grass seeding the sides of jumps once reshaped. If you can get the seed growing during spring should help stabilise the soil for the rest of the year and helps significantly with rain erosion, the sq m2 of un-ridden soil adds up there! Probably want a more drought tolerant grass/meadow variety with wildflowers 🐝
I’ve enjoyed the channel for many years now, keep it up lads🤘
This is part of building trails in the northern, wetter climates, after winter. You can try to protect them as much as possible, but mother nature always wins. We are still many weeks out from proper dig days on trails here. Mostly just wet management right now. Feel your pain, fellas but it is fun to get them running again.
Tarps help but to really help keep the jumps shape, if you sprinkle a little bit of concrete on every time you sweep and wet the jumps after a few times you should have no worries about winter
Ah that's rough to see after all that hard work man! Not too unpredictable though unfortunately. You guys will have it back up and firing in no time 😎
1) aesthetic builds aren't always the most resilient. Those vertical faces with soil aren't going to hold through winter.
2) You're right, a lot of the work is done, 'just' some reshaping to get a lot of that riding again.
3) Find a local geotech engineer that is into MTB... Have them take a look at the soil, etc... it may be as easy as mixing some cement in the final build phase, adding some material so that all of the faces are battered, etc.
4) I can only imagine how Jamie is feeling seeing all of his finish work on the ground.
Stoked to see where this all goes.
Unfortunately any uncovered jumps built completely out of just dirt are prone to this outcome. Its partly why i build all my features using mostly logs and rocks as fill. Even uncovered they fare winters and rain sooo much better
YAY playground is back!! It'll bounce back better than ever
I'm so glad to see that The Playground will be resurrected. I was worried that Matt had only signed a 1 year lease and the new plyground would mean that he was just going to leave this behind rather than rebuild it for 1-2 months. I know we (fans) all want sick content, but at the end of the day, there's a business side to content that needs to pay leases, pay Ben, etc. etc. I'm glad The Playground is still a part of the business plan because it's my favorite feature on the channel.
Good luck with the refinishing, I can't wait to see what creativity and new ideas come out of the ruins.
I work on a build crew and we watched you build this and we figured everything was gonna fall apart. You built pretty looking jumps. But you didn't think of longevity
Maybe try compacting the dirt as you build it. So if you dump dirt on the jump, compact it before you dump the next load of dirt on it. For me it worked quite nice. Thisway you basically make layers while building the jump and in the middle its already pre compacted and not just the outside is compacted. Also if you have the time to take care of it, maybe plant grass on the sides except the landing and jump, this way the sides are also strengthened due to the roots.
Stay positive, I ended up making the sides of my jumps less steep for easier maintanence. It means adding alot more dirt but it also looks cool when it all grows in.
I'll come dig ! Sick ya back there
Pipe line has a lot of natural drainage which is going help.
It would definitely be worth adding drainage in the low spots. Even if you dig a ditch and fill with rock. So water has a chance to drain
The playground series is literally my most favorite TH-cam series of all time. Glad to see it coming back!
Looking forward to Jamie's back flip.
Arrr sorry to see the damage Matt. One of the main problem is when your building you need to compact the soil in from the start in 100mm layers max if by foot and shovel, or bit more by machine by driving over it. Also clay will expand contract a lot in hot cold, dry wet weather. I'm a Landscaper so have learnt by the same problems over many years on jobs and building trails years ago!!!
GIANT CURTAIN for the playground
Can't wait to see more videos, I still have 2 months until the snow melts.
this channel is a video producing weapon!!!
you want straws and leaves in it for water drainage, I think the water is making them crack when evapouration occurs, if you create natural run off, less water, less evap, good luck lads 👊
Good luck boys!
It's gonna be a great summer for u Matt getting the playground back together
Surprised Jamie was so chilled, I was expecting to see him crying in the background
BUmmed that the elements have done a right number on the Playground. On the upside, it's an opportunity to implement any improvements you can up with after building any of the features before.
I'm sure it will be back, bigger, radder and badder than ever.
so much work you put into this. i cant wait to see it ridable again.
Excited for PlyGround and PlayGround this spring! You mates are amazing. Wonder if you are able to provide any updates on event schedule for the coming season? Crankworx? Hardline? Would love to take my son to see you live in comp. Cheers!
I think matts comp days are finished now. The kids these days are insane
This is why you use tarps & carpet. Still wouldn’t have been 100% fine, but it would have been a hell of a lot better.
If your willing to invest you could cap everything with a fine grade. Depending on what is naturally in your area, granit or lime can work well. If you try to use lime where granit is naturally present you will find that it won't bind (think it's science).
Capping will minimized water seeping into the jumps and allow its to flow above ground .
Feels bad man. Good luck repairing it!
Still cant get over how hard those spills Jamie took are. fucking sent it mate
Every trail builders worst nightmare 😢 but on the other hand, at least you get to improve or build on what you used to have
Add some bags of cement to the preemo dirt,just dust the surface whilst slapping and shaping in the lips 💪👏👍🤞🤙
Jamie out here eyeing up backflips. What a guy.😊
Please get that massive hip running! We all want to see tricks get sent on it
Should get a couple bags of cement dry mix with stuff with out the sand and gravel. Fix everything up and get it fairly smooth then dust it with the cement powder wet and finish smoothing. It should harden the outter crust and keep it from collapsing in the weather. Won't do much else and shouldn't end up much harder than you ramps already are after they dry out.
So sorry to see the state of the playground, it's every trail diggers nightmare to see scenes like this at their spot.
Some advice for the jumps....
Try to pack the dirt in a bit more as you go. It looks like you pile it all up and whack everything from all sides when it looks big enough, then add on some more dirt as needed. this does make the outside faces of the jumps pretty hard and rideable but the dirt inside will still be soft. This is why you've had such big collapses during winter, the rain penetrates the outside crust and gets to the soft insides then it gets saturated and gives way.
Many peeps have advised tarps or carpet. this does help for sure and is definitely a good shout to help keep them intact, but it's best to do a proper job first and pack the dirt in as you build the jumps back up. Think of it as layers, every few barrow loads have a good stomp around on top and whack all the sides in a bit. Then you can move onto the next layer with a good solid base underneath...
"It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies."
best of luck guys, can't wait to see you all shredding again!!
Our winter trail projects are behind schedule because of weather as well. Covering everything on the jumps but the face with grass will help
We all knew this would happen when you didn’t tarp them for the winter haha shame it’s so much work to rebuild but that’s poor Jamie’s job 😂
Good luck man
get a compactor so you don't have to slap it with the shovel, will be a lot quicker. love the video's guys.
New video's in playgroud is amazing!!!
lets goo its back I have been waiting 6 months for this series too come back pls don"t give up on rebuilding this! you got this Matt!!! and i have an idea you should name the individual ramps at the ply-ground!
Covers/tarps.
There is a reason all the big trails are using them now. Even the jump I made in lockdown is still exactly how I left it 2 and a half years ago.
Carpet and tarps, surprised you didn't put any on, anyway looking forward to seeing you guy get back to work
I’m sure Jamie was super bummed about seeing this wreckage.
That sucks
But hey, maybe you can smooth it all out and make the line flow even better
Our recent socal storms reaked havoc on a bunch of builds. Fixed them then round two of the storms came in knocked out everything over again. The focus amongst all the diggers now is drainage and stabilization after all the rain.
This is so sad to see. But you boys will get it tuned up in no time. You’re making me dread what my trails are going to look like when the snow melts in like May.
Jamie will have that running perfect after a weekend of shovel swinging
Get some carpet or tarps on em , keeps them damp stops ruts , dust and keeps them protected from the weather
You have to tarp jumps in the winter!! Really suprised that wasn’t done
It's ok. Jamie looks happy to be back in his natural habitat with a shovel 😂 he clearly didn't like the hammer and screw driver 🤣🤣
Love the intro of you walking into the playground. Have you ever thought of using the number on your jersey as an episode counter?
Good luck
Hope you can get it back and running fire❤
still looks pretty sick. makes me wanna get building in my yard again!
Kinda feel like it needs to be called the 'Clayground" now that the plyground exists
I love Playground!
Sooo keen on these videos.
The good news is that the line still exists. Rebuilding is not the same as making from scratch.
But there is bad news. For stability, such figures should be built with at least layer-by-layer (30 cm layer) compaction with a vibrating plate. Ideally, the bottom should contain gravel for density and drainage. Also, the use of geotextiles under the top layer will increase the stability of the figures. Geotextile distributes the load on the canvas and allows water to drain. Another useful thing that is in America is soiltac (material for strengthening the soil), if you process the line correctly, you will get eternal dirt (probably).
One of the main mistakes that led to this state of the site - the figures were not covered with polyethylene. This greatly reduces shape time.
In addition, I advise you to buy large stones and lay out all the side parts of the figures with them. Also, slopes should be made more gentle and grass should be planted on them.
A lot of work. Good luck and patience.
Greetings from Russian trail builders.
I hope fix it all up and Matt I can't wait to see you hit that hip!
I would recommend getting bricks for retaining walls to hold the primo dirt together on the sides and back. However that’s if the playground is a long term investment. Or you just take them to the next location. 🤙🏼
Rebuild bigger and better, gives you a chance to tweak things to make it link up smoother. When your finished cover with carpet on all the jumps
Love the videos great to see you back at the playground
VISQUEEN the big stuff in the off season to solve the erosion problem! It's cheap enough and huge sheets
perfect opportunity to make little changes you have surely dreamt about: also... the dirt has compacted and settled as it always will, and we're just getting an extreme glimpse of it having not seen it thru the wet season. You're going to have to add dirt to everything to make it the existing height
Build Jack walls out of lumber to help support a lot of the forms
Just bare in mind we live in the uk an building re/building at this time of year with sporadic rainfall cover anything newly built as any rain will wash out the new stuff
I'M GUTTED FOR YOU DUDES
The Phrase "It's easier to obtain than to maintain" comes to mind. Sandy clay is great as long as you pack it in and let it harden!
Advice from the rainforest: TARPS AND A VIBRATING COMPACTOR, BOYS. IDK what you value your team's time at hourly, but I can promise you some old billboard coverings and a $500 compactor will pay for themselves very fast.
Redo pipe line & make it more rideable this time round having a gully full of quarters & hips fly outs etc is literally the biking dream
Matt you need to cover them with carpet that will help a lot. Or astro turff ☺
SUGGESTION/COOL IDEA!!!
Since you are most likely committed to redoing/fixing whatever you don't protect each spring, you could change some things up. I think it would be cool to do something with the big quarter. You could set it up with two outside hits kinda like in the PLYground, or vice versa one middle hit to two outside landing at different angles/ distances.
Or could make it more mellow and have one of those satellite dish type features there for the year.
crazy what just a couple months can do to things like that. Looking forward to seeing it brought back to its former glory
good luck
Old carpet flipped upside down works good for keeping your lips intact, just doesn't look the best but w.e. you guys will get it dialed again
Also concrete mixed in the dirt would help alot
Please take this as an opportunity to fix some of the lines.. I feel as though some of them could be re designed. Lockdown build felt rushed and there’s no need to rush playground. Looking forward to the continuation of playground🔥
Rather elated to see a new Playground video lads!
Thanks Matt for the update on Playground. What about Your Backyard? How does that look?
Put on a feed, invite all your homie's to the playground for a resurrection and ride day! Would be cool to see a big ride session with heaps of people!
I saw Ben's tyre marks on the landing of the left hip, you could run that same tyre in the fresh mud now and measure the difference in length of the tread vs the old mark to get a rough idea of how much the jumps have shrunk.
My advice would be to add dirt to all the features that collapsed, Don’t just take the dirt that fell down and stack it back up so steep. Add the dirt, make it nice and square but keep the sides and back at more of an angle. Then next winter tarp as much as you can.
cant wait intake you rebuild everything
Hey matt, you can use dustex to create a more robust surface, you mix that with water and por it over the surface, good luck and great content💪✌🏻
Trails are like cars, or bikes, you can build them, but if you don't take care of them and don't maintain them, they will eventually breakdown and fall apart! Tarps, and carpets are trails best covers for outdoor trails! Since the beginning of the 90s, we have been covering our trails with carpet & tarps.
King of spades crew
Perfect time to consider using carpets and other materials to help hold the shapes and form a consistent surface next time you re-do them... you are lucky that the weeds have not taken over the area...
Finally! Want to see you send the ones you didn't ride yet. Looks so devastated...
I see the local park's crew struggle with the rainy season (Costa Rica, UK-like muck for 5 months).
I have heard - might be an urban (forest) legend - that mixing a little cement into the dirt greatly helps with weather erosion.
Maybe it is worth a try with one feature and go from there. Also, as others said: tarps or 2nd hand (free/cheap) wall-to-wall carpet from an office building would help with the rain not demolishing everything
Mixing crete would definitely help, but also this is the downside of building jumps completely out of primo dirt. Jumps built with fill such as logs and rocks AND dirt fare MUCH better to the weather. But i cant beleive he never tarped or carpeted a single jump... that would have saved him soooo much headache
@@logang6583 Yep, especially because - from what I see on YT - all the UK parks are full of carpets....
Sad to see the jumps in this condition. We used Trasskalk (Trass lime, not sure if the translator got this right) to harden our jumps. The got rockhard and did not crack in the winter but they where not that steep and it is a different soil. But maybe it could be worth a try? You need to mix it into the top 10 centimetres of the soil. After some rain and dry times it gets really hard.
Would grout mix or cement have a similar result?
@@Jrockjeff We did not try those materials because they are not as natural as Trass lime. Our local authorities did only allow us to bring Trass lime out into nature. But I guess cement would be even more hard but maybe too hard if you want to change something on the jumps.
Tanks you so much matt for coming back to the playground you should start on main line
Maybe consider some thoughts about the durability of the builds..viewers may get the feeling that if they build something it will totally fall apart till the next year..when the walls are not so steep..just the angle of the wet dirt slope that stays there without packing it with showel when you are building it..that will fill with grass in a year and will not fall apart at all..and will stay there forever.. I know that it is not so steezy, but after inevitable fresh build repair or two the jump is going to stay there no matter rain or anything.. I mean just to talk about this so the potential builders are not discouraged by the total destruction of this kind of build.. 🔥
design is one thing..need to repair fresh jumps two times..but then it is better..the dirt is settled..so it is going to last..also the factor of riding the jump frequently constatly packs it and makes it more durrable..etc..
Mix in concrete with dirt when u re surface the jumps and it helps we have a similar problems with our jumps coming apart and we did the concrete trick and they stay together year round
On the brightside it allows you to dial in some of the problems you had with certain features first time around
Cover them up when your not riding after you re build. and maybe close them down over winter completely cover and stack down. Good luck keep up the good work
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Honestly could have spent $500 in 4- 6 mil plastic and a days worth of tidying up, then come back to just drying out flat bottoms and simple patch work...
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A lot of the dirt will have been worn down to sediment and washed away with the rain or even dissolved in the rainwater so the jumps will inevitably have shrunk a bit unfortunately, may require a bit of a top up
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