Building A Secret DIY Skatepark

Episode 7 of building a DIY Skatepark! Consider subscribing if you enjoy it :)
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0:00 Intro
0:12 Using Old Pool Coping
2:14 Picking Up Supplies
2:52 Side Of Quarter Pipe
7:36 Adding Pool Coping
11:58 Rain
12:44 Adding Pool Coping
13:13 Next Morning Check Up
15:00 City Painted Walls
16:35 Finishing Pool Coping
21:25 Making Wallride Forms
22:39 Adding DIY Wallride
29:58 Adding Skim Coat
34:56 Fixing Cracks
37:39 Adding Lacquer
39:25 Skating

[@ZackDowdy]

Consider hitting the like button under this video to help me afford building more spots

[@ryxnm]

been waiting for this

[@caseysmith544]

Reason I feel your DIY spot can stand from the city is they are hoping for people who are going to be using spot more safely then drug users and homeless people also hopefully keeping taggers away.

[@joshuafrederiksen]

I used to do tile ages ago and I noticed when you laid the mortar down for the pool coping you use a regular float/trowel to spread the mortar. If you use a notched trowel to spread the mortar it uses less mortar for the same effect, also it makes it waaaay easier to make everything line up. Love the DIY vids! ❤

[@oliewray8357]

@@caseysmith544 building a diy just attracts more people who graffiti why would it keep them away? what are you going to say to them you can't paint hear anymore this our spot now hahaha try to live in reality

[@oliewray8357]

@@caseysmith544 why would building a diy keep taggers away do think skaters will scare them away hahaha what would they say you can't paint hear now this is our ditch 😂😂

[@7plyTherapy]

Watch, the people for the city that went to check out the spot are actually skaters themselves, that’s why they took extra good care of the DIY and even painted it. We skaters are everywhere!

[@1X7SL3]

[@zacharyyoung1083]

This is exactly the same DIY energy we had back in the 80’s draining pools and hunting full pipe concrete tubes and skating ditches, I love this shit man nobody should care what’s happening in a drainage ditch unless there is flooding or someone is dying, keep building and skating brother!

[@hootiemike3091]

People were threatening you for building small skate ramps in a ditch? Pretty wild

[@Dusk.EighthLegion]

Imagine threatening a guy building a DIY skatepark in a ditch... "I'm a tough guy, I'll threaten this measly skateboarder!" "Dude, I'm in a ditch building a ramp and I have a shovel, bugger off you arsehole."

[@spencernuzzi]

Additions came out great dawg!

[@Androbot_]

Your diy videos are really excellent!

[@ZackDowdy]

I appreciate your support!

[@christophmesserli9278]

Bob ross of DIY🖤🤘

[@hanskloss1331]

happy little quarter pipe 😊

[@Ty-ye8rd]

Right? Haha, these vids are great to just throw on in the background

[@relic374]

I was just about to comment that 😂

[@thehedgehog767]

tought you were going to stop this series for a bit, nice vid!!

[@relic374]

I thought the video was almost over about 13 minutes in and was kinda bummed out cuz its really entertaining, and then looked and saw I still had 30 minutes left and was genuinely excited. keep up the good work man, this shit is awesome.

[@monophonoise4548]

Great work man ! So sick that they painted it too 😂

[@Spectactical1]

I've been eyeing up this curb in the bus lane at the school here. I'm using a Nikon messenger bag to carry a kit that has clear coat, paraffin wax, and some little tubes of contact cement I got from the dollar store. Be nice if the cheap cement works for a small cracks.

[@hanskloss1331]

Bondo is good

[@njits1017]

Tell me if it works

[@ZackDowdy]

JB Weld sticks are a good too

[@bigzem4696]

You should remake the rail and add angle iron to the box, help the fellow skaters out 🫡

[@DouglasStevens0521]

Those new large tags are so sick! I love those colors!

[@jdd1777]

Wow, you are such an inspiration, love it, I have been building skate ramps and parks my whole life and in my older age your videos are inspiring me to do more. Thanks for posting and please keep it up!

[@TheAnimeist]

5:46 "It's not going to be perfect, that's for sure". Obstacle proceeds to have a piece fall out. You're hard work does not go unrecognized. Your doing your community a great service.

[@xaviercowne1753]

This series is amazing 🤩. I would like to see you make a small box, if you continue this skatepark

[@oliewray8357]

🤦🤡

[@thecollectorsinged113]

Good thing the city was ok on the obstacles, pretty stoked to see more of the progress on this

[@willusionist]

Your DIY stuff is just super inspiring. It shows you care just as much if not more about the actual process than getting to skate. Props man.

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

I love seeing the spot building videos! Watching this park come together has been great

[@jacobhope4657]

Thanks for the awesome video mate.

[@milesobley6148]

Auuuright 40min ep!! Stoked

[@ediimak]

It looks so much better now keep up the good work u have my respect

[@adamnickel]

Now that the city doesn’t really care… the biggest threat to the pool coping is metal pegs… lol

[@gingerdanny101]

Good work man! Consider using a notched tiling trowel when spreading muck for your coping to sit on.

[@hanksyflamework]

or even rings of bonding compound sika mortor etc. if you make a ring and press something onto it as it pushes the excess air inside the ring outwards it will naturally create suction that will help it stick in place . think how glass mirrors are glued on vertical walls with just a little tape to prevent bad alignment.

[@Not-Even-Close-666]

🔥 bc of you made my first DIY curb! Thanks and greetings from germany 🤙

[@njits1017]

Hey me too man, one curb at a time!😎

[@Dirtypandasan]

Awesome DIY work! Really nice!

[@dakotacopeland5038]

You know, we should do with the rest of the pool coping the ones with the angle you should make it angle box. Very cool in that D I y.

[@perkiespocket]

Wow this really good. Love the narration and view of the process. Keep Going

[@CodyKhaoz]

Love these videos!!

[@seansappok1141]

People worried about a small concrete ramp on the side of a drainage when their trash builds straight Dams during storms

[@user-uu5of8rd1n]

Love the DIY series

[@whale_talk]

Thanks Zack, you're inspirational

[@jescowan26]

clean is the way to go alot of respect with this lil spot

[@MarkPuke13]

Big respect ❤and thanks for the info

[@karlcraig7214]

Paint your blocks and rocks with a glue water mixture it helps the mortar stick better . Let it dry for ten minutes and render away 👊🏼

[@jesse.0341]

looks great to me keep up the good work !!

[@njits1017]

Just made my first curb nice today, there aren’t that much around here. Feels good to diy!

[@njits1017]

You and all the other diyers inspired me that I could also do it, thank you :)

[@ZackDowdy]

That's awesome!

[@rodneyvonC]

you could chop out a quarter/half inch of the concrete run up/floor at the start of the transition helps prevent chips/cracking and smooth transition from ground to quarter. came out sick tho good shit king

[@MacalleySage]

they look like they skate so good! killer man!

[@chasm9557]

I'm not sure if you've used it in the past but when I used to work construction and we had to pour concrete, we always used a 3:1 ratio of screened gravel to cement. It's always for small stuff like cement pads or foundations for bulkheads. Basically anything small enough to use a small electric mixer and do it by hand. If you have easy access to gravel it could save you money at the cost of the extra effort of bringing it to your spot. If the finish isn't good enough, you could also put a skim coat of cement over it. I'm not trying to say it's the only way to do it, and I'm not even sure if it's the best method for your purposes, but it never hurts to have more knowledge at your disposal.

[@coletonklipa503]

Absolutely love the serious

[@_coolestloser_]

bro this is fr inspiring, sad how many of ur projects get wrecked hope this one stays up cuz it's coming together, gon be an og spot by the time ur done

[@garyzeng2899]

Loving this series, it's a gem for anyone else who wants to get into DIY

[@oliewray8357]

The entire ditch floods allowing water to go behind the ramp though a pipe is absolutely pointless and leaving that crack behind the other ramp is just leaving a week point for water to start getting under the ramp this will make it weaker and the bottom join will crack up faster

[@olvr-5233]

Such a fun series to watch:) thank you! Also people complaining to the city must not have one enjoy aspect of their lives!

[@Allan_Varcoe]

So glad to see the MLK coping went to a good home! ❤

[@IMP_LMH]

Love it!

[@cameronwilliams-fn8uv]

So sick!👌

[@Luke139]

Still waiting for you to hit that pole jam Zack!

[@LordDougall]

cool dude great vid creative work

[@unibeastbeats]

this is the weirdest passion project that pops up on my home screen from time to time

[@Severed-]

Try getting recycled materials from job sites. I managed to get a few chunks of angle iron the other day which im donating to the locals to use at our diy park

[@Digorno4]

28:34 had me dead 😂😂

[@freshprinceklassen]

Solid

[@Thegreatmryoshi]

So nice.. You should have a small shovel that you have in gardens, or a military shovel that you can fold together that becomes small easily o carry with you then

[@geronimus4288]

you should buy gravel to use in the filling process, it should fill the gaps between the bigger rocks and help them stay in place.

[@jeremycollins6380]

Start putting your left over cement products in a 5 gal bucket with a lid to keep it out of the rain and water. Much less waste, plus it doubles as a trash can or supplies mover if needed.

[@jeremycollins6380]

Also wanted to add real quick to get the coping more equally flat pre butter the entire surface area with the mortar to get it as consistent as possible the set coping and tap them into place for consistency. Either way looks awesome very inspiring to go out and do this somewhere.

[@ZackDowdy]

Unfortunately people have pooped in the buckets when I leave them :/

[@skateboard310]

@@ZackDowdy this is why we cant have nice things!

[@oliewray8357]

Rule number one for diy if It can be broken or stolen never leave it There

[@ryanrowe1975]

Awesome

[@robertchase8504]

👍I’m looking to make a good diy. Thx dude

[@ZackDowdy]

Do it!

[@jescowan26]

some spray foam to fill the voids on the sides of the ramp, even old aluminium foil crunched into balls is a good trick, aluminium cans can work well too, its not going to rust and cause concrete cancer

[@ZackDowdy]

Good idea!

[@oliewray8357]

Sounds like the advice of a complete idiot tin foil 😭😭😭😭

[@LarsLarsen77]

You can put a piece of plywood up against it with a brick leaning on it so the concrete doesn't fall out, then remove the wood later.

[@iNotsuoh]

Zack if you ever need some help, I'd love to come lend a helping hand. I have a background in construction and have a lot of free time this summer. I stay in Upstate NY but planes fly. Reach out anytime.

[@thestonedandstripped]

Coping with it...😊

[@dbk1440]

🔥🔥🔥

[@bearwolffish]

always blown away tbh.

[@lvup7907]

ever think about a mellow fat rainbow rail by chance ?

[@ZackDowdy]

Cool idea!

[@Ron7644]

This has the same effect as those Tropical forest swim paradise builder videos

[@Aaron-lp3zt]

concrete boi epsilon is at it again!

[@TheAmirShimon]

Awesome work! How many bags of quikrete do you think you used for the whole park so far?

[@peterchavez655]

What model of ray bans you wearing 20:54. I’m liking those.

[@insanogeddon]

Good clean fun, creativity and building, keeping people fit healthy and going outdoors what kind of crazy person in the world would have an issue with this or report it .. people that want frustrated bored people attacking them instead perhaps

[@dumanski95]

Damn i was hoping theyd paint the material piles

[@mineman8496]

you should get a bricklayers trowl and throw the muck at the sides of the ramp, it will stick better and fill in the voids better and be quicker

[@jordanbeebe5581]

Dude just has stacks of pool coping under his mini ramp 😂 love these videos man

[@ZackDowdy]

Thanks dude! I was lucky enough to score those from a local skatepark, when they were replacing the coping I got the oldies.

[@jordanbeebe5581]

@@ZackDowdy so damn entertaining and encouraging to watch your builds man keep it up!!!! 👍🏽

[@chris73brown]

Nice

[@JackMittenn]

just a suggestion when setting the coping in place leave the bed your setting them on fluffed up if that makes sense and tap down till it firms up that insures the the coping is stuck and firmly in place

[@JackMittenn]

and once down try not moving them as you potentially could make them wobbly when set

[@DibzzehM8]

As a concreter I can confirm that these ramps are not going to mess with the drainage, the concrete falls towards the middle of the drain way from both sides so the water falls to the middle as it drains out, so these ramps on the side won’t effect anything

[@freqenc]

It's an investment that will not profit but in entertainment. They already bringing in their choices. Never picked up skating but still takes Extreme talent to master. I wish I had property to make one myself. Keeps kids off the streets. Skaters will always be cooler than others.

[@Galaxie_ivy]

Ayo? Wave ledge with the curved coping? Also you could consider putting a grate at the end of the pvc just in case?

[@Ty-ye8rd]

When you say “in the back”, do you mean just behind the store? All we have is lowes, and I’ve heard you can get deals this way, but the employees at ours are kinda clueless. Asking a question usually results in a 30 minute wait for a manager who “doesn’t know”

[@ZackDowdy]

Yeah behind the store, typically near their loading dock.

[@monsterwax-sk8-co]

W video

[@viceunkwn]

fuck the haters man, make the videos you want and let it ride

[@cloud-seven]

Imagine the kids skating it already, everyday going there and the dudes done some new alteration. You go again and theres a new ramp, then again and theres a wall ride, it would be too rad as a twelve year old to be going there and discovering these new ramps.

[@OneManMining]

people saying that you are affecting the drainage, clearly don't understand for one, how powerful water is, that stuff will get blown out of there before causes enough resistance for it flood over. And for two, I definitely don't think some cinder blocks and pool coping will displace enough water to flood either.

[@doktor_faust]

Any reason why you did not use a full 90 degree radius for the wallride? Now theres this weird transiton between the wall and the ramp. (Not talking about the wall connection, but the ramp not going almost fully vert before going into the wall). Personally i find those wallrides really frustrating to skate because you smash into the wall.

[@ZackDowdy]

I wanted to keep it hard to get on the wall, vertical forms (which I made on the other side) are more of a infinity wall vs wallride.

[@doktor_faust]

@@ZackDowdy i get that, yet my approach would then be a smaller radius instead of a inconsistent transition, but if you have both of it, perfect.

[@petercarbin2077]

Why don't you for the swimming pool couplings edges you probably make a mold and make as many as you want

[@slowedversion6393]

I know some spots just like this with hand made ramps and other stuff to skate

[@Dr.Phil_]

Damn, that pool coping you salvaged from MLK is part of my child hood hahaha. So sick

[@SJ-ef4pv]

Need a 6 ft table top against the wall now Grind Pole too 10 foot

[@underscoreBails]

diy goat

[@JustinSane_555]

Smash that like button people, it’s so easy to do… 2000 views and only 100 likes. Come on people do better

[@TheBattery124]

Maybe you could have used some chicken wire on the sides to help hold the motar in place

[@lazerblastoid]

no junkies allowed. also my skatebord bike rack arrived, its super handy

[@ZackDowdy]

Glad you like it!

[@SmokeSeshCentral]

😊

[@LarsLarsen77]

When I was a kid in the 80's, we built halfpipes in vacant lots. Nobody cared.

[@lul.t.6831]

Can’t fault a guy whose heart is in the right place for doing things absolutely atrociously. Experience is a good teacher but maybe get some basics down first my dude

[@dontlosemoney6765]

its wyld that they come and paint over the graffities. Like if anyone cared about some letters on a drainage

[@pinkeye00]

spray foam .... it would help fill the gaps next time.... like $4

[@InsanityWon.]

Tony hawks dad!

[@A-ROD-oe8wl]

Please make a ledge fam the narliest ledge ever