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Members Lounge => Non Bocking Chat => Topic started by: aidanh1 on February 08, 2008, 05:11:52 PM
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hello anyone that reads this XD
right me and my mate live in an area that isn't very good for jumping off stuff so i have thought of something very smart called my Bock Box i will draw a sketch of it or something to show you but what it basically is, is 3 step's for a bocker to go up and each step is big enough for one bocker to jump off there will be 3 steps which will go about 200 Cm's high (may be small to some of you but for me its a ok height) will be made mostly of wood and maybe some metal on the joins and stuff to keep it strong but i ent the best designer in the world and wondering does anyone have some skill in the designing stuff :biggrin:
BANANA DANCE :banana:
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TFD, a guy from PP.com, made this last year:-
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0281.jpg)
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0282.jpg)
Is that what you were thinking of?
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Send me the details, via email off my profile, and I will design it for you, as I have stress testing software, etc
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OMG somones already done one XD nice one tundraH and before u say anything no i didnt see dat wen thinkin of this lol
and ok sx ill put some measurments on a scetch and put it on here
Cheers :biggrin:
BANANA DANCE :banana:
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OMG somones already done one XD nice one tundraH
No problem. :D
and before u say anything no i didnt see dat wen thinkin of this lol
They were pictured in May '07, 4 months before you started. So I never came to this conclusion. It just clicked that I had heard something along the lines of what you were talking about ages ago. :)
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kk :biggrin:
do u no how they manged to stop the box from colapsing :P
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Actually, I have just found pics of the start of the build which show the frame work:-
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0277.jpg)
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0279.jpg)
Also he quoted the height of the steps.
when i get the ply on the tops it'll be 1' 5'', 2' 5'' an 3' 5'', i figured that was plenty high enough for now :)
tfd...
Hope this helps.
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Oh I like that idea :)
Must make something like it but where to get cheap wood ( Works in a timber yard ) ;) ;D
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lol helps to work in a timber yard
But were cna a guy get some Really cheap wood lol :biggrin:
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LOL at aidan hehe
200 cm is like the height of a door and i dont think we are going to be jumping that high off it !
I think i might have some wood in the shed if not its off to B&Q lol
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sounds like a plan louis and yers about the 200 cm :-[ it was an expretion :biggrin:
hehe
BANANA DANCE :banana:
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lol helps to work in a timber yard
But were cna a guy get some Really cheap wood lol :biggrin:
can always find a forest and cut a couple trees down late at night so no one sees u and hey presto free wood :haha:
but wouldnt try it might have :police: knocking on your door lol
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yer good idea ricker right all i need now is a axe/chainsaw a forest and a getaway plan :thumbs:
BANANA DANCE :banana:
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and to stop with the damned banana dancing? lol
as dk said youll get wood cheap as chips in a builders yard, paying on average £10 for a 6x10ft piece of wood which could pretty much cover it.
as for it moving if you put the backend of your "bockbox" on the grass you can pin it to the ground.
alternativly get some rubber on the bottom of it
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You could ask a shop refitter if they've got any wood !?
A good sign would be a skip out side
Remember this wood maybe not be very good but if it free ... just use lots.
But you could be lucky and get some old sheleving units :)
ALWAYS ASK before take anything out of a skip :thumbs:
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hmmm i may visit a builders yard see if i can get some cheap wood cheers guys
and nero u not like my dancing banana friend :biggrin:
BANANA DANCE :banana:
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I thought about doin a similar thing to this for next year's DT project, but one thats also a trailor on a car that folds up so u can take it to festival's and stuff, it'd help seein as evrythin's so flat in the fenns
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I thought about doin a similar thing to this for next year's DT project, but one thats also a trailor on a car that folds up so u can take it to festival's and stuff, it'd help seein as evrythin's so flat in the fenns
Tell me !?
Even the hills are flat :o
Fish Hill in Boston LOL
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/Dark-Knight/Untitled-7.jpg)
The sign post next to the back of red car is on the top of the hill, first base camps next to the old couple and the peak must be some mm above it :o :biggrin:
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Thats a very flat hill DK :nana:
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Thats a very flat hill DK :nana:
It's so flat here when you take your car test the Hill start done on a bridge :o
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(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/Neroizm/bananal.gif)thats what i think of your banana dance :haha:
that is flat DK, i live in fear of a flat planet, so i must remember not to visit your neck of tu woods
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Or Holland Nero, as it is flat out there :banana:
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Thats why so many people cycle over there, its easy to cycle stoned if its all flat :P
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:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: Nero the banana dance is the best :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
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Banana Dance on the bock box, lol
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:hijacked:
Back to the box..... The one in the pictures has a welded steel frame - be sure of your joints if you plan on making one entirely from wood. :biggrin:
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(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0277.jpg)
thats wood wontolla
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Looking at that picture and I notic the you should have put the cross members ontop of the upright :-\
But they look stronge anyway :)
If you made the three levels separete you could nest them together to store or moving about :thumbs:
Saying that why you could use the side panels to hold them in place :)
I'm not thinking of selling these but I wood at a box makers :)
I could find out what these would cost if we made them up for you Don't think it'll be cheap but would last for years !?
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Some CLS timber from B&Q or some 2"x3" from a wood yard may be a best bet
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lol DK u sound like ur planning on making loads of these and selling them in a bocking shop XD
if u do i want in :thumbs: hehe 50 50 profits ;)
(just for nero) BANANA DANCE :banana: << coz i no he loves the banana dance :nana:
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I was planning on making one, for my garden, but I am sure that my other co habitors would not like it, lol
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hide it ;) well if u can anyway u could make it fold up into like a stool and they would neva no :thumbs:
Good luck with making it fold and still being strong :biggrin:
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wow thanks for thinking of me bro
once again just for you, my banana violating yours(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p54/Neroizm/bananal.gif)
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:o i shall send an army of bananas to get ur banana nero and then theyll get u and ut u under my bock box when im jumping on it :thumbs:
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(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/tfd666/other%20stuff/Photo-0277.jpg)
thats wood wontolla
Yeah, you're right Nero. I thought there were beads of weld in some of the corners but it can't be.
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what did he use
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looks like 2 by 4 or even 2 by 5, offers good strength in the frame, but the frame could be made stronger by running the short bracers, from the front of the platform to the back of the frame, means there is more strength and means more weigth can be applied to each level
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theres always camo sx, like the army use like this..(http://actionhobbys.co.uk/_A818.jpg)
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looks like 2 by 4 or even 2 by 5, offers good strength in the frame, but the frame could be made stronger by running the short bracers, from the front of the platform to the back of the frame, means there is more strength and means more weigth can be applied to each level
Looks like 36mm by 9mm to me and the weakest piont is the front lip of the steps ( another upright would help ) :thumbs:
Is there a cross memeber missing off the botton step ( the top two have them ) ?
If the ply is nice a thick and screwed on tight to the top of the steps it will reinforce the strengh :)
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May try a collapsible model, so watch this space in the summer months, lol