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Stuff I learned recently from helping out on a summer setup.

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Mr.Huck
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The setup was first just turf and carpet.  Only worked when it was super wet with shit loads of soap. We then went with construction fence.  The stuff I had didn't work great because the plastic straps that made up the plaid pattern were too thin.  Thicker is way better as far as construction fence goes.  We put it down on top of the turf.  If too much of the turf was able to get to our bases through the fence it got wicked slow. 

The object was to get something that we could run dry.  We found that plastic construction fences have a smooth side and a rough side.  The difference in speed is huge.   Definitely put the smooth side up. 

Edging on construction fence scrubs a lot of speed too.  Our tranny wasn't completely level at first so we were slowing down a ton  right before our kicker.  Also our rail wasn't completely lined up with the dropin, so we were having to make a slight turn at the bottom of the dropin to line up with the rail.  Unless you are hauling ass, turning on the flat on construction fence will kill all of your speed.

For anyone having speed issues, I would recommend:

Break out a level and make sure that you can ride a flat ski all the way to your kicker.  We took a snowboard and let it slide down to the jump.  Once we got it to go straight, we knew we had it right.

Make sure that your transistion from down to flat to up is smooth.  Also make sure that your rail is lined up with your drop in.  Just being 3 inches off will make you have to edge in the flats to adjust and you will lose all your speed.

Use construction fence and make sure that you find stuff that has thicker plastic straps for the pattern and has a smooth side.  Make sure the smooth side is up. 

This was our first seshion on the setup except for a few test runs.  Just breaking it in, but we got the speed right now.

http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/videos/1249652386Night_Jib_at_A_A_s_08-07.wmv
Aug 7 2009 10:30AM
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roaklee
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good stuff
Aug 7 2009 11:33AM
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TomTeller
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yo just get lattice fencing.

Its like 15 bucks for a 15 foot piece it slides super good. Take a look at my pictures of my setup, my dropin is like 1.5 feet high on a very mild hill and with a little water it works perfect.

Aug 10 2009 4:57PM
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Mr.Huck
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Very interesting.  I thought you were talking about wood lattice.  That's a great idea.  I wouldn't want to land on it, but looks perfect for a dropin.  The construction fence that we have is working for now, and it's great for the ski out.  I think we will be looking for more dropin speed soon and I will definitely try that stuff.  Did you get it at Home Depot?
Aug 10 2009 7:29PM
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[Adam]
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Mr.Huck you know what your talking about!
Aug 11 2009 12:41AM
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TomTeller
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get the plastic lattice fencing from home depot.
Aug 28 2009 9:51PM
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Mr.Huck
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I couldn't find it on homedepot.com, but I did find it in the stores.  It's in construction materials. 
Aug 31 2009 12:32PM
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regge
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good to know
Sep 1 2009 1:35AM
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Lanceasaurus
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That shits perfect for my drop in.
Sep 1 2009 4:43AM
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Mr.Huck
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We're going to redo our setup with lattice.  I think this stuff is the answer.  We are going to pull off the construction fence and the carpet and just crew down lattice.  Right now with turf and construction fence, about the only thing consistent about it is that each time you drop it is consistently different.  You never know whether you are going to have enough speed. 

Pluses for lattice are:

* Can run it dry so no mud, no soap, no huge water bill, and you won't kill your grass.
* it will make your drop in last longer because you won't have wet carpet next to wood all the time.
* Would be great for a portable urban drop in because it's light weight.  You can really just get away with having the frame with cross supports under the lattice.  You could even make that out of PVC and it would be super light.
* It basically costs about the same as a sheet of plywood. 
Sep 9 2009 12:06PM
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TomTeller
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Put turf down underneith the lattice because you don't want lattice on wood, as i am the master of lattice. We just finished redoing our setup, its about 5x higher, 5x better, and has a 2 foot kicker off of the end, built ontop of rocks. I think it may be the sickest setup out there, ill post pics tommorow.
Sep 13 2009 2:25AM
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