My Mini Ramp Cost & Regrets

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Ramp Dimensions
4:50 Timeline (Start to Now)
5:58 Pool Coping
7:45 Neighbors
8:43 Joint Seems
11:14 How Much $$ It Cost
12:29 Why Mini Ramp VS Bowl
13:38 Q&A’s
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[@ZackDowdy]

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[@user1138]

That's such a cool looking mini ramp. I've never even considered a concrete ramp for a backyard but it's rad you were able to pull it off.

[@RikRiorik]

I love the look of it. Living the life!

[@maxwellharmon4172]

dude! thank you for making this! im surprised how much flat bottom you got but that makes since! Also the natural cracking is sick! Lots of good info in this vid!

[@corail53]

Nice job man it looks fantastic and good on ya for getting it official from the city and being friendly with your neighbors. My buddies had a great mini ramp and their house was a skate stop for teams and such passing through - but it was all in violation of city bylaws and had neighbor complaints so it had to get torn down.

[@OCRamps]

You killed it! 🛠️

[@joeskull]

Federal Stone is awesome pool coping as well.

[@CaitofFate]

12:56 let's get this man an acre

[@mvarnzo5709]

That ramp looks so fun and so solid. Thecoping takes it up another level. Great point on size and skating alone. Great job all around. I hadn't even considered building a ramp with an eye toward concrete later but, maybe.

[@fishplanxcustomboards]

Great Video and that is my dream too to have a backyard ramp. From SD now in FL so trying to make that a reality! Agree, let it crack naturally.

[@leafskating]

Amazing video man also I finally gripped my first board last night it was so fun ❤😂🎉

[@TheDirtyLuke]

Dream mini ramp. Its perfect.

[@Dutch0wnage99]

Amazing mini ramp ❤ as long as theres enough deck to bail it's all good.😂

[@likespinningpats]

I wonder if covering the forms and plastic before pouring the concrete would have helped. If the main problem was the concrete sticking to the wood doesn't seem like it would have been a bad idea

[@artisanwayskateboarding2556]

Steel fiber mesh added to the concrete really reduces cracks,its a little harder to finish but very strong, $40 extra per yd though. Dig all your diy videos, build it and they will sk8, Thanks Zach

[@chrhadden]

they recycled some chain link fence for mesh at FDR skate park. thats a dyi skatepark here in philly and they used it EVERYWHERE lol!

[@MB-vk8cv]

It will still eventually crack.

[@plznobarbarism]

i like how the dogs love the ramp

[@mrzoom214]

dog just chill

[@thatoneguy2057]

You're backyard is really nice. Everything apears new and well maintained. Theres no distractions in the background at all. I'd be embarrassed to do KZbin videos myself cause I have nothing but dirt and weeds around my ramp. 😅

[@alicatdotcom]

Weeds are good for you and the planet! The outside world isn't supposed to be sterile and plastic.

[@MrBaskins2010]

this is pretty dope, no lie

[@zackxdig]

I've been piecemealing for 10 years, it never ends but love what you're doing. I"m working to build little things that work for me, ledges, manny pad, small rail. Nothing major. Mini on the list but that's a skill I don't have.

[@chrhadden]

i was thinking maybe if you have room to dig ,it would be cheaper to make a bowl. i have been going back and forth on the idea of making a small clam shell type bank in my yard.

[@jasongeyer2111]

could have put metal coping and filled the coping with concrete. that might have made it quieter too. and you could have cut the seams and filled them with resen or something too. I'm just coming up with ideas I don't know if any of what I'm saying are good ideas or not. sick ramp though looks like a dream 😁

[@shaneyeestudio]

Clean

[@jayhern4692]

Did you have to apply a concrete sealer?

[@cstpa1]

ive been looking at oc and keen and the flat parts look too short, when you watch people skate them, you can see they're immediately hit with the other side. the only pre made one i like is cody's lol.

[@hugues118]

that what i am good in saving money cost in this but it is a hard working.. it is true but everytime you save it is good

[@willblackett4709]

Just laid a big concrete pad concrete guys said " do cuts with a saw " but I'm glad I said no to them, hairline cracks are way better to skate and I saved money on labor

[@marissac870]

They have no idea.

[@REMPLACEMENT-TV]

metal coping won't make that much nose if it's stuck to the concrete or if the tube is full of concrete or anything which will stop the resonnance

[@mudtoetx1595]

Give me masonite and black steel coping all day. Concrete everywhere is great, but all the shuffling, sliding, reverting is kind of lost by necessity.

[@souldiarrhea]

this guy is the definition of a hard working, Carhartt wearing man. Don't forget it folks.

[@playboimarty]

Actually does carharrt shit lmaooo

[@chrhadden]

i didnt even consider that noise might be an issue. this ramp should be really quiet. if nobodoy did any grinds or tail slaps it would be barely audible

[@darklight4815]

they'd also be barely skating LOL

[@chrhadden]

@@darklight4815 if you put spacers in your wheels it will be pure silent hell

[@jrodfolyfe]

My neighbors gonna hate me

[@TheScrubDesigns]

How very non skater of you to ask for permit lmao jk beautiful build dude I love the concrete and pool coping idea leaning more this way now for my own

[@MB-vk8cv]

10k is not insane if you paid 6k, the other company has to turn a profit. Im sure that 6k figure is a little higher with other things you probably didnt figure in.

[@ezrhino100]

Zack. Can you do a balance exercise video? Like things you can do at home and the gym....

[@ponyboy7825]

Use a bosu ball

[@souldiarrhea]

get a brain and then go try to use it and think for yourself. Thats advice.

[@victortee2172]

Every backyard ramp should be built according to the space. Mine is too steep and too short by most standards, but that just adds to the character.

[@alexander_solenov]

Есть возможность сделать. Выбираешь материалы. Бетонный копинг или железный🤔 Пов: Бетонный, чтобы не беспокоить соседей. Всё делают мексиканцы. Нужно снять видео на 17 минут, какая это сложная работа и пожаловаться на трещену в бетоне, потому-что это не эстетично.

[@mrzoom214]

У меня вот нет мини рампы а Зак смог, хоть кто делал, главное она вместо огорода

[@XGATEXKEEPERX]

I bet it’s quieter than a wood ramp too. You could hear WHOMPWHOMP WHOMPWHOMP when I had ramps which had to be annoying for my neighbors especially our late night sessions. We had punk band practice too, worse neighbors ever.

[@Chyeahokay]

Probably not as fun to skate as a wooden mini.

[@johnthomas2877]

Maybe instead of a 17 minute video stretch it out to 30 minutes. That way you can talk at normal speed and have time to inhale.

[@mattstanbridge]

I'm not in a good mood so you're getting a complaint to make to me feel better. There are no natural pauses and you sound like one long mumble. Other than that, beautiful ramp, well done, very impressive.

[@harleyrobles560]

Thoes natrual pauses tend to sound artificial. I prefer that he talks in his normal voice rather than doing the fake youtube vlogger cadence

[@mattstanbridge]

@@harleyrobles560 Pauses don't sound artificial, we all pause between sentences when we speak to each other. It's perfectly natural. He can talk in his normal voice, and have pauses, and not sound like a youtube vlogger. Ironically what he's done is sound like a youtube vlogger by clipping out every space between sentences. People never used to edit out pauses until the last few years. Plus he does mumble a bit. Anyway, who really cares, he can do what he wants. I just felt like moaning, and hopefully didn't offend him.

[@T-_R-_E-_Y]

😅

[@elobiretv]

Yeah editing every small pause out isn't good. I'm glad that trend died off

[@robertcrystals]

do you breathe?

[@johnthomas2877]

You talk with alot of words! It sounds like a machine gun. The common term is motor mouth. Sorry I don't mean to offend, just an observation.

[@coltonheeney4291]

It also seems like he is sort of whispering. Like he doesn't want neighbors to hear him talking