Ben flexing his framing IQ on us

When I was a kid my dad and I built a 7' halfpipe with 1 ft of vert - 6 ft transitions. 8 ft of flat. 12 ft wide. It was tough. I then cut it down to 5 ft. Still tough. I then cut it down to 3.5 ft. Left a little 4' wide, 5' high extension on one side. It was magical. Sponsored skaters would drive from an hour away and show up at my house to skate it. When I moved, I sold it and it got taken away on a flat-bed - and apparently 4 years later, it changed hands again. I really want to just recreate that design someday. I learned soooooo much stuff on that 3.5' final cut.

Funny fact, that i first watched your drywall tips videos and i didnt even know you have this yt channel😅. Now here i am, learning how to make a diy quarterpipe😂

Enjoyed the one man crossover with the Vancouver Carpenter!!

I have been searching for months for info on the radius. This is by far the best info on it. Know it is much appreciated and I am grateful.

Ben! I was able to drywall my house with your help. I moved from that project to my backyard mini which will be wrapped up this weekend. I'm excited to watch this and see all the places messed up

Thanks Ben. It’s nice to get a video like this from some with a lot of carpentry knowledge and experience

Thank you so much for this series! I’m looking to build a ramp in the next few years and these videos will be such a good reference to use

love it. got some property where I can finally build a mini ramp and this video is great! can't wait for the next one

Very satisfying to hear and see your opinion here, our crew just built the small part of our indoor mini ramp, almost exactly the same height and radius.

Respect for planning and building it on your own . Looks really professional .

Damn dude, makes me want to build a ramp and get back on my board lol. I remember the first ramp I dropped in on was 8 feet or more....I was terrified 🤣

Not gonna lie man, seeing your departing video has made me binge your stuff this morning. Building a mini has been something Ive always wanted to do and I have a 6 year old so I can only imagine how much fun it would bring over the years. I think after this morning I want to do it and I thanks ya for giving us a real rundown on ramp considerations.

Finally a thoroughly detailed video of building a mini ramp. Thank you

How funny Ive watched your drywall videos when doing projects and I had they feeling you were cool but this just confirms that your the man! Dope ramp man!

Thank you for taking the effort to do this for us all!

great job Ben.. thanks

This is so awesome. Thanks so much. I want to build one exactly like yours there.

You’re great at explaining things, and putting it into video format. The new Topaz skatepark has some nice transitions for all levels.

Those were some solid tips! Do you have any idea what the ideal lenght is for the flat bottom? Is this a standard lenght per height of the ramp or also more a preference like with the radius? Looking forward to this series, trying to build one myself here but I'm thinking concrete 😀

This is going to be a great series

As a skater with zero carpentry experience, looking forward to the rest of this series. Also, I’m digging the beard, Ben!

love the building videos!

Great start to a mini build! I figure I’ll throw my 2 cents in. I started skating later in life but loved it so much I put a ramp in my yard for fun and exercise (can be seen on my channel). I went with a 7-foot radius to be a bit more on the mellow side but it is still super gnarly for me. Similar to your ramp, I cut the transition out of 4’x8’ sheets and put the flat on 2”x6” boards so the height from flat to platform is just about 3.5 feet. I am using Gatorskin surface although as a new skater I don’t have enough experience to make comparisons with other surfaces. I used pressure-treated for everything EXCEPT the transition plywood that is under the Gatorskin, but I caulked all the seams between the Gatorskin sheets. I made my ramp a bit small (8-feet wide) but it is plenty of ramp for me. I am in New England (Northeast USA) and put a large tarp over the ramp in winter but have had it for about a year-and-a-half and I expect it to hold up for many more years. I used to do a lot of driving to get to my local park but not anymore!

Siiiiiiick! Can't wait for part 2! Not that my apt complex would let me build a ramp anyway. haha.

great stuff ben

I just built one a few months ago by myself. Was a fun project. I did a 3ft with a 6’10” radius so I can learn transition skating. I have a video of it finished on my channel.

My ramp is 2' 8" with about a 5ft radius 8' flat bottom it is a little tight but over time I've learned to skate it

There was one in Carlsbad similar to this one I like. Man want one of these in my yard.

I just realized that I understand everything you talk about when it comes to skateboarding only related stuff but I don't have any carpenter related english vocabulary haha, gotta look up some words to understand the whole video :D

Hey thanks man very helpful!!

I wish more parks had mellow transition. In the PAC NW its usually full send,all in,steep, thwart doesn’t help a street skater appreciate transition.

Is the height from flat 3 feet or 3.5 feet? I first hear 3 when you talk about the height but then you say “six foot transition on a three and a half foot tall ramp” when you talk about the transition? Thanks for the video. Thanks for taking the time super helpful. 🙏🏼

Oh, I was sooo wondering your radious. Your mini ramp is the best shape ever.

Love this, hoping to build one myself in the spring. How much rain and snow is this ramp seeing? How long do you expect it to hold up in your climate?

Love it! I want a vert ramp, but theres a huge one in my area I can get a membership too I think 💕👍

lookin good in those blazers dad

Thanks for all the info. For my garage I measured out 3’ high mini ramp but I’m too tall and will hit the garage door supports. Do you think a 2’ is too small? What transition would you use for that? I figure 2’ would allow me to practice and learn tricks at home, then take those tricks to the parks and bigger ramps to progress.

Am I the only person to notice that you look like a Nick Hexum stunt double!? I love all of your videos man! :)

You could just measure the entire height and subtract the deck height to find the height. You don't need a piece of wood unless you can't see the side of the ramp.

bearded ben? also kinda wanted to build one at some point so ill keep this in the archives.

Thanks for explaining how to find a radius. I’m not a stranger to being the weirdo on skatepark with the tape measure.

nicee, can't wait for part 2! Also I just realized, Ben has a beard!

My 2c. A lot of people think a 2ft mini is the way to go but I find them harder to skate than a 3ft or 4ft cuz you have no time from the flat to the coping. The transition is so short if its steep at all it makes it hard to skate. Plus your almost guarteed to fall all the way to flat everytime

Banger.

Is a small ramp like that for the most part just designed for grind/coping tricks, or, can you do airs as well? Or, would you need more vert for that?

Yessssssss finally

the beard looks sick!

Intelligent video

my conrete miniramps 15yrs old this sept. it measures 3ft high, 11ft width w/ 6.5ft of transition..wood wont last on a tropical country like ours. Good investment, if u truly love skatebordng fo life

You should do a review on madness skateboards

How wide is the ramp, and what would you recommend anything less than 16' wide for a 3' high ramp?

What radius do you recommend for a 2.5 foot (78cm) hight? Not too steep but not very mellow…

One thing my nerd brain has been thinking about recently is non-circular radii on transition. Has anyone tried coming up with a miniramp that experiments with elliptical or conical shapes? The reason I ask is that in concrete skateparks, some of the most interesting parts to skate are where two different radii blend together and form a unique path.

Dripping sexy with the beard

I’ve found that if you go micro (2’-3’), making the transitions steep is the way to go. You can still pump and maintain some speed for a little bit.

Do krux grind as good as Indy’s?

Hey I have a mini ramp too but I don't have skate light I used birch for the top layer. How does skate light hold up to rain? Do you cover your ramp with a tarp every day?

Wish I had a mini

I made a ramp radius measuring gauge here: www.dvrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/TransitionGauge.pdf

Cant you just use a string to find the arc length of the slope/ramp instead of the pivot thing? Especially if the transition isn't linear (r (radius) in polar coords)

mini-ramp = tax write off now. liking how you're thinking ben lmaoooo. jk but thanks the tips in even this video were super helpful and a lot more straight forward than a lot of diy tutorials

Whoa! Whoa! Slow down! I barely finished high school. 🤯

Is that only 4 feet of flat on there?

When you said that it’s a 6ft radius on a 3 and a half foot ramp, don’t you really mean just a 3 foot ramp? Since the extra half foot is just from the bottom support, and not part of the top surface?

I always watch your new videos on Friday night with a beer

Do you think 3ft x 8ft is to small ?

Been there done that. Sweet ramp! And I'm FIRST!

Yay math! :D

Now do one with metric measurements for the rest of the world 😜

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The cost is not irrelevant to those that live in Canada.

ok but coping is the scariest part about bulding a ramp in my opinion id hate to have noping and id also hate to have a big gap in the trany to the coping also it never feels truly sturdy on wooden ramps

I'm part of the people who watch these videos and then need to convert to meters

Mine is 2’6” height , radius 7’ width 8’ old guy 41 learning tranny at comfort of home. PS perfect coping size comes in stop sign poles just sayin

Do a kickflip

Jarred Pickles!

If you can't lock into, and grind, a smith or front feeble you failed. my shillings worth.