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Anyone tried burying objects like round/square bales for jumps? I'm on a farm and have a pretty decent track, but my limiting factor is dirt. I haul dirt with a 3-ton grain truck and use a John Deere tractor with a loader for everything else. I was thinking, what if I buried round bales with dirt? That'd sure save a lot of it, and I'd get some pretty big jumps if I wanted.
Anyone done that? Is there something I should look out for? We have big square bales as well, that might be better.
Anyone done that? Is there something I should look out for? We have big square bales as well, that might be better.
when i was in high school we built ALOT of huge bmx jumps in the desert by my house. we world bury everything from couches,cactus whole trees.
when a developer bought the land some ass hat went out and destroyed them claiming it was a liabilty. they tore them down then 2008 hit and there is still no houses where they used to be.
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What I did and do building jump is rob the dirt at the low point of the track area. This hole becomes a sediment pond for the erosion to drain into and be reused.
I have a 3 bottom plow that is used to rip the ground ,this makes it much easier to scoop the dirt with the front loader .Also use a single bottom to cut drainage ditches from areas back to that pond so all the dirt washing away in heavy rains gets caught in the hole.
It is easier to pack the jumps if you make them a tractor and a half wide,this way you can back the tractor up the jump moving over a tire width each time and face the entire jump.. If its just tractor wide its impossible to pack the middle. of the jump.
I've been using the tractor for 5 years now, getting pretty dang good at it! Taking dirt from the low spot isn't available, I'm in the middle of a hay field. Limited to using black dirt, due to the fact the boss wants to be able to level it all and farm it again should I move away. It's been a work in progress for 4 years now, what I really need is a gravel pup to haul more dirt from far away. That'd help a lot!
Guess the bales are out then.
I get so tired of riding on black dirt though. The picture I posted above was from my race a couple of weeks ago. It was like holding on to an old school jack hammer for 70 minutes.
Ive built several tracks and have ripped up a section say 25 ft long with the plow then push that into a jump. It you are on level ground it would need to be beside the jump since it leaves a low spot on each side which would have standing water on flat ground.
I've found the rip method is easy on the loader. I've shoved around in hard ground with mine till it started having fatigue cracks in the bucket and bracing between the lift arms. An inspection and regular greasing will pay dividends.
At my house, I've used big rocks and stumps before. As long as you put enough dirt on top of them, it should be fine.
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Another person at a private track used telephone poles for whoops. Didn't put enough dirt on and they would just chew up your tires, definitely recommend fully covering anything you bury!
turned out to be a pretty nice single lol
He's going to think, "Ok, so you want to move a bunch of dirt around and bury stuff, so when you leave not only do I have to re-grade the field, now I have to spend the extra time separating out all of the garbage you've buried?
They used large cement pipes (sewer pipes) under several of the jumps. These come in all kind of sizes (probably expensive)
buried stuff always comes back to haunt you.
what would a.round bale.save you, two cubic yards at most? Not.worth the hassle.of it getting mixed.in with the good dirt if you make changes or more.importantly, making a soft spot that will cause problems.
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