Building A DIY Skatepark Ep.4 

Hey Zack, Thanks for the continued teaching and inspiration. After 2 years of on and off (mostly off) DIY work, my very own backyard concrete miniramp is close to being complete. I never could have imagined how much mental and physical work it takes to build DIY concrete features. I've felt overwhelmed at times after seemingly endless days of lifting 80lb bags of concrete into and out of my sedan, spending more than I planned each time, schlepping the bags around, hiding them from the rain, and then mixing bag after bag... And after all that I've barely made a dent, however, I avoided all my life responsibilities and now I have to tend to them! Your DIY and documentation work kept me motivated when it felt impossible. It's been a childhood dream of mine to have a miniramp. I just wanted thank you for your part in making it come true. Yours truly, Steven Reddick

Car guy here, you used way too much hardener. The recommended amount of hardener on the can is for like cool weather. In 100* cali sun you need to use like 2 dots of hardener for it to have a decent working time.

Preamble: You've inspired me to start working on a spot... I thought I'd looked hard enough in the past but somehow found and awesome ditch I've missed for 10 years.... only a couple of minutes from my house 🤦‍♂️ Question: Do you share your spots? If so how? Apps? I'm thinking I'd like to find a way for the right kind of skater to find this spot. Couple of ideas I've had so far are some sort of symbol that would hint at a secret spot nearby? Or maybe some skate stickers, 'Have you seen him' stickers with little arrows for example? The other thought was some sort of ground graffiti that might some day end up in an aerial image of the are... saying something like "Animal Chin was here" (I figure anyone who's familiar with Animal Chin or similarly dated skate references by this stage is deep enough in skating to respect the spot.)

I really think you should build like a A-frame with a hubba or something those are sick and it would be a cool project to try

Look how beautiful the last letter fades out on the transition! Makes this sick spot look better and tells that the writers are cool with what you are doing.. awesome!

Love this series man....let's hope it stays fir a while.

Keep building bro 😎

I am helping out my local skatepark also by building some extra stuff, so i find this really great. I have an idea for a obstacle/addition to your skate park. I built a little box to grind by building by laying bricks 50cm apart and then fill it with concrete then adding angle iron to the corners and leave it to dry. hope to see more

Yo dude. Those ripped bags are a steal. Lowes will provided quick Crete paper bag to hold them for less spill. Another thing you can do it cop construction trash bags and put the bags in there and all you have to do is when you get to the spot is put the water in the bag and mix by moving the bag back and forth. Crk. Good luck homie.

Looking for a foundation in my area to start my first concrete diy. Perhaps a wall ride along with a parking curb sitting on bricks. Inspired by you 😎 never thought this would become a hobby of mine, thank you Dowdy

So sick

i love this, helps me a lot and was fun watchin you guys shred it bro

your content is extremely motivating dude!

really enjoy this series man

you mixed it too hot brother. Easy on the hardener it will give you more time. Love the vids

I found myself a nice shaded waterway and started a QP with my buddy from your inspiration big dog! Keep going!

The man back at it!.. Keep up the good work DIY for life. Even though I don't skate anymore still love seeing you getting out there enjoying yourself.

And for smaller cracks, superglue and baking soda works great to, if you can find the big bottles of glue at a reasonable price

Did the same thing the other day. Wasted good quick concrete. Getting so stressed out working with that stuff. :-D

so cool!!

Stuck on the couch for 2 weeks after shattering my collar bone trying my first ever drop in. This is the best YT series I've found yet! I imagine I'll have watched everything by the time I can be back on a board. So good

I recently had a factory/plant shut down near me and there are a bunch of spots to skate. Ive pretty mush set up a little skatepark by the back loading dock(even has a mini QP) and I've been lucky that nobody has said anything yet...

would love to see a cool pole jam setup down there

That's such a cool DIY and hyped it survived while you were away 👍😎👊

It isn’t that you used too much hardener, it’s that you are mixing too much at once. It is meant to be mixed in small batches so that you use it before it hardens, then you mix more.

Love from Sweden!

Maybe grind out a notch at the base to fill in and make that the bottom transition point with the existing slab.

I love your editing! what monitor are you using with your MacBook ?

Trick on the bondo clean where your gona use it at real good and mix it right there while your spreading it dont use the board , and also use less hardner

It's not the Bondo's fault Dowdy. You just added too much hardner. It will eventually dry without it, it just takes a lot longer. I used to do body work. Bigger the job, less hardner. Keep up the awesome work!

Need to bring back some home made can couping to this spot ✌️🤟💯

I always bring a rub brick for bondo missions too

Grass roots DIY! Thanks for sharing. What wheels are you using (diam & hardness)?

Ep.5 please!

Buy a bottles plastersizer you need less water in your mix and it's just as wet plus twice as strong as you used less water

Would be cool if you did a video with Alan Young

Cool build man! Leave some cards/notes with your RU-vid channel so the graph artists can follow along + see their peices on video.

making me wanna do this shit man

What wheel are you using on the angle grinder to cut concrete? Just found a stop for a DIY

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Long mellow bank to ledge as the next addition?

Super 👍👍👍👍👍😻😻😻😻😻

crazy amount of hardner, id use less than half of that but i also use the automtove shit on my car

Try ardex feather finish next time

Where is this spot at ?

Whats the song called thats playing at 12:25 ?

Oceansider here. where is this spot exactly?

You back in the US?

Bro hit up Independent Trucks for a collaboration video making a DIY spot. (I’m just assuming you live near where they are at) Also make sure you throw some Indi’s on before hitting them up😂

al rips

any tips on where to find an abandoned place to build a d.i.y

You used waaaaay too much hardener on the bondo

Hey bro, hit the website and let me know which board you wanted to try out!

Mayb to much hardener in the bondo

To much hardener. Use less if its hot and you'll have more time to apply it.

You are using too much hardener

Sign ur name in spot.. concrete

You used way too much of the second part of the bondo

Dude. Way too much hardener. Less is more.

Home Depot politics suck. know who you're giving your money to.