Timber and Ramp design

So I went and bought what I thought was a massive pile of wood - turned out Totton timber is a huuuuuuuuuge warehouse full of wood, and full of very nice people. My pile of wood was not really all that big all things considered, but the nice people were nice enough to not charge for what was technically 5 cuts, at £1.50 each. SAVING!
Currently sat in the van are a pile of 4'x4' sheets ready for rampmaking, which will occur tomorrow during the day. Normally I acquire timber (rather than 'get wood' - that's quite different) and then hack something together with the stuff I have laying about. This time is different, and I've gone to a lot more trouble to produce nice CAD designs using Sketchup, one of which is right here. The ramps in the CAD are not to the same accuracy as the final ramps, and I'venot bothered to update a lot of final design features that evolved while I was in the thinking cupboard (toilet), which I'll explain below beside the picture.
Kickers
The kickers either side of the big rollover are identical. They are 18" tall, and the sloped surface is 4' square. This makes the base about 3'9 long, and saves on offcuts of wood in making a standard wood size ramp face. The ramp face itself is actually two 2'x4' panels that bolt together and then bolt to the triangular sides. With some extra braces that bolt in, one full kicker will dismantle into a stack 2' wide, 4' long
and under a foot high. That means with a seat down in the back of a normal car you can fit both kickers. I'm also going to make connector blocks so you can use it as an 8'wide flat bank. The ramp faces can also be used for tabletops, platforms, whatever! Everything will become mega modular, and then i'll post some cool plans up somewhere for people to copy. Or maybe I'll make ramps for a living. Or both....

Rollers, a Kerb and the Euro Gap
Rollers will be constructed from ribs of ply or more likely mega cheap chipboard (Pro tip: 7'x2'x11mm chipboard £1 a sheet from Ikea Southampton!) with some titebond2 and some technical woodwork/prayers to hold it all together. Once again the largest part of these will be 4'x2', but with a height of around 1" for each of the two halves of the big roller for the kickers. Incidentally, this will combine with the 6" kerbs to make a big ground level rollover if one so wishes.

The Euro gap is a standard bit of interest to add into a bank/ramp. As pictured to the right, it's like a step has been cut out. This gives the challenge of clearing it going down the ramp/bank, or clearing it on the way up. Both parts of the euro gap I intend to make can be used individually as kerbs to ride off, and together allow someone to either ride over like a kerb drop or like a ramp. I'm not putting a rail in, sorry (No welding kit!).



Keep your bananas eyes peeled for the pictures of how the construction goes over the weekend.

Peas out,
Timmy