Low Budget Bliss: Spread out a little...

Monday, May 26, 2008

Spread out a little...

4 comments:

Tim Kulas said...: lets do pvc all the way around this thing, it will be revolutionary...; May 26, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Unknown said...: Hey jim its Josh. I'm thinking about building a mini ramp in my back yard. I have a bunch of wood in the attic and their are a bunch of houses being built around were I can probably get some scrap wood. I'm thinking about 8 feet wide and about the same height as your original one I skated at your house. Nothing epic but just something cool I can skate when I can't get a ride to the skatepark or your house. LOl. Anyway I know you probably were going to anyway but could you save any extra wood from your bowl (if their is any) O ya thanks for the board to its great! Good luck with the bowl I can't wait to skate it.; May 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Jim Johnson said...: sure Josh...I'll help you! Give me a call!; June 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Unknown said...: Well good news and bad news. I'm going to have to go smaller. 5 foot wide 3 feet high. Since the shortest pieces of 2X4 I have for ribbing are 5 feet long. Good news is I raided that construction site again and got enough wood where I can rib the flat bottom and build one side of the deck. So I have pretty much everything I need minus 7-10 cinder blocks, 1 2x4x10, and 3-4 2x4x12. Which I can pick up at home depot or lowes for like 15-20 bucks. ohh this kind of goes with Mr. kulas comment up there. I think I'm gonna cope it with PVC since I found like 10 ft. of PVC at the construction site as well! Anyway I'll be sure to call you if I need some help or advice. Thanks; June 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Bowl Props

Gotta hit some people with some props since we started the bowl, Thanks to Tim Kulas for a million things....Props to Rob Kammel for loading his truck down with wood and running it over...props to Manny, and Lucas for help lifting and moving the mini to its new home! More to come as needed. Thanks to Bob for future donations! Thanks to Jeremy for lots of 2x4's and plywood from ft. pierce! More to come! MORE props to Rob Kammel for a major score of free 2x4's from orlando! Thanks again Rob! Props to Tim Kulas for coming over wednesday and manipulating wood to make me smile. Also props to Tatum and Courtney for painting the quarter pipes and themselves! ALSO...props to my sister Ang for using her trailer to deliver a huge amount of skatelite from Mike Keatner's house. Skatelite that was originally used for a 12 foot bowl in his yard back in the day. New props to Rob Uzar for pulling my sister's trailer and helping load up a bunch of plywood and 2 by's....and skatelite strips. NEW props to Darel Dubson and Elijah for dropping off some much needed cement blocks. Also...Props to Rob of Undercover skate shop for donating a few huge stickers! New props to ROACH for helping to pour the cement coping around the elbow. New PROPS to Rob Uzar (my cousin) AKA....."The WOOD Angel" for offering up his truck and driving us up to ft pierce and putting up with the DIRT, and the BUGS....to get another truckload of wood!!! Props to PJ for some half inch ply also!!! New Props to Rob Beasley for purchasing a bunch of 2x4's to rib up the quarter for the deep end! NEW PROPS to Tim for working more magic with skatelite on the newly completed TACO! Also, Props to Chris for giving up his Tuesday night to help lay skatelite and for the magic box of screws:-) NEW Props to Mike Lewis for bringin half inch plywood to help layer the deep end...also...anyone who brings Cheesy POOFS to a session deserves props. Cant forget FRANKIE who busted onto the scene and bought 5 sheets of half inch and some screws and we should be finishing up in the next day or so! TIM Kulas was really flexin his skeelz while workin with the virgin plywood. (BFT) New Props to Alyssa for some 2x4's for decking! NEW Props to J.Bizzle for bringin the chicken legs every sunday! NEW props to Tim for adding that special little flava to the deep end...and bending the elements like a jedi. Props to Frankie again for bringing the cement mixer and gettin some wood for the coping prep. NEW Props to Nate for continuing to show up with 2x4's for deck frames. Props to Rob Kammel and Darron for documenting the last two sessions when nobody wanted to stop skating to snap pics! LOL NEW props.....(which I forgot) to Garr for supplying a TON of 3/4 in plywood for decks! Also thanks to Ben Warren for truckin it down here! New Props to NATE and BEAU for more 2x4's. Plus Jaybin for 12 feet of coping and for givin up his sunday to bend that darn thing to fit the last corner! As well as welding all the steel coping into one smooth piece!!!:-) NEW Props to Hugh for getting the deck stain! CARL for the ladder, and Shamus for the screws! STEVE came up with the perfect idea for the taco deck and boosted the finishing touch of the bowl by kickin in a box of 3in screws!

miniramp Props.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Rob Kammel from Kammel-Morgan Design Group (KMDG.com) for his contributions to the cause! Also, Rob is working on a new site called artnotbombs.com Check it out! Without Rob's donations this ramp wouldn't even be close to where it's at right now!
Props also go to Tim Kulas of course for starting the whole project by hooking me up with some skatelite and inspiring / forcing me to make it 16 feet wide....as well as crafting the most goreous transitions I've ever witnessed!
NEW props go to my sister Angela Shuman for her help with the steel coping! Thanks Ang!! Also can't forget my wife Chris for all her support and allowing me to take up a LARGE portion of the back yard!
MORE props to TIM Kulas for setting the coping and coming up with the skatelite scheme. (It's a complex process) it all happens in his head......
PROPS to John Sprague for lending his mathematical approach to measuring for the decks, and his precision eye when it comes to handling a circular saw! Props to Rob K. for the 12 pack of heineken and for his sweeping frontside grinds!
Cant Forget Brandon and his buddies from around the block. Thanks for helping with lifting and cutting skatelite. NEW props go to Angel for always putting her own safety on the line as she gets the perfect photo angles......Courtney's been out there taking lots of pics too!