how heavy?

[bryan]

how heavy should a ramp be, roughly, w/ no surface or wedge at the bottom?

i just got my new ramp i designed, but it seems really light.

[AndrewMx1]

Depends on what metal u used (wall size and size of tubing) I dont personally know. But like slider says the rev.1 will weigh around 1500#

U said you designed it yourself, did u get a welding shop to make it? If u did about around how much $ did it set u back? And get some pics up my man!
lates

[bryan]

my neighbor built it, and i don't know how much he's going to charge yet.... kinda scary :)

[RedBull]

1500lbs thats almost a ton! dang i didnt think it would be that heavy mabey it will take more than 4 ppl to move it :( :confused:

[slider]

Yup, it took 15 strong young men to move our Rev.1 in place at the US Open of SX. Hense, Rev.2 and Rev.3. LOL Now, one guy can move it and 2 or 3 to fold / unfold them. LOL

[RedBull]

slider, can i make my ramp breack in half and hae two supports right byside each other so they can hook togeter with tabs (probly 2 tabs on each side.





srry i had to zip it but everytime i try and post somthing on here it says its too big!!!!
(hope you all can see what i meen in my crumby paint but hey im srry if im not as good a KMX):D lol j/k KMX

[bryan]

so should i worry about my ramp being too light?

here's a picture

[bryan]

another shot of the back of the ramp. sorry abou tthe backgrounds, kinda hard to see

[RedBull]

i doubt it will be to light. that looks like a way sick ramp though doesnt look to steep

[mxrider32]

THat ramp dosent look steep at all. Did you make up your own plans for it?

[mxrider32]

Doh! lol you already said you disigned it yourself. Im an idiot.

[bryan]

it's 37degrees, which is what most ramps are....

[RM_Rider_521]

I would double check the weight thing, cause I dont think that it would be too fun going off the top of the ramp and then aiming down at the ground? ( haha ) :rolleyes:

[slider]

It won't be too light and it won't tip over bottom end over the top end either.

The final degrees has very little to do with it. It is how you transfer from the ground to the top that seperates a good ramp from a weak ramp.

[slider]

Originally posted by RedBull
sorry i had to zip it but everytime i try and post somthing on here it says its too big!!!!

You should save your drawing as a .jpg extension. bmp extensions are a windows default and there is not compression algorithym to compress it.

You have a good idea for your attachment point and just make sure you have a space for adjustments for uneven ground. Just make the hinge area an extra 1/2" space or so.

Here is your drawing:

[RedBull]

even normal pics (no paint) say its too big most of the time li,ke 90% of the pics ive tried to post are to big even small ones!:mad:

[crustyfmx250]

use a jpg, as slider said

[RedBull]

my paint doesnt have it! im using the windows 98 paint and all its got are thos bmp or what ever. the msn paint at school has it but not mine. is theior 2 on win 98 like the windows one and the msn cuz my school has msn paint and they use win98 but mine doesnt. (if that made any sence as all)

[crustyfmx250]

lol no, it made no sense.

but yeah, when i ran win98, it could only save as bmp's....and then one day it jsut had jpg in there lol.

go to www.jasc.com and d/l th demo of paint shop pro, itll save your pics as jpg's for u

[RedBull]

i think im gonna "borrow" the paint shop off this school comp im on at the moment. its got the lpg.