Props to Tomteller on the Plastic Lattice Fence find

Mr.Huck

Mr.Huck

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Turf sucks! I would use this stuff without turf. This is plastic lattice panels or garden fence sold at Home Depot or Lowes for about $15 for a 4 x 8 foot panel. Here are the reasons I would do this instead of turf or carpet or even construction fence.

1) This stuff is more durable than construction fence.

2) Based on what TomTeller's showing here, it slides really well and doesn't need water or soap.

3) You could lay this stuff directly on top of wood frame and that should keep your wood from rotting out.

If you session your setup a lot and you are constantly putting water on it, the wood will warp and eventually rot. By using this stuff, your setup should last longer and your water bill won't go through the roof. You could use it directly on top of dirt with plastic garbage bags or tarp under it to prevent dirt and mud from coming up. Just anchor it with cheap metal tent stakes. You could probably just use metal coat hangers.

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^ Here's the drop in that c.andreani made. Seriously, I would just put the lattice fencing on top of this and call it good. No maintenance.

 
Grip? Not sure what you mean. You'd use this stuff for drop in and and maybe ski out. Not a good surface for a box. It's lattice so you'd prob eat shit.
 
Iv used it and I had a horrible time trying to keep an edge on it...It"s fast and slides well though
 
yo thats my setup so let me give you a little insight on the matter! :).

My dropin as you can see is only like 1.5 feet high, its lattice ontop of turf and i only have to wet it a little bit as i barely have a dropin.

Now if you have a high dropin like mr.huck does then you wont need any water and youll get aton of speed like a mofo for sure. About the edge control: its not a problem, i can 2 on straight off the lattice lip, but if you really want a dope setup what i would do (you'd need a high dropin like the poster of this thread), just put lattice on the slant down then turf on the lip, this would make you have maximum ownage for a setup.

Thats just my 2 cents,

-Tom
 
I'm actually thinking I'd use construction fence on the lip. You can definitely edge on it, but it slows you down a ton when you do. Basically, you only want grip when you're trying to rotate more than 90 onto the rail. I was a little worried that if you spin from an edge set, the lattice might grab your ski a little bit and pummel you. Construction fence would solve that.

Maybe we had some bad turf, but the experience we had with turf on A&A's setup makes me never want to use that crap. It was butt slow and the only way to make it faster was to basically just flood it with water. That turned everything else into a mud bog.

I'm sure there are different types or brands of turf and some probably slide better than others, but I think you are always going to have to mess around with water or soap or something to get the speed right. We were trying to figure it out. One run would be great and then the next we'd lose so much speed that we'd have to bail because we wouldn't have been able to get on the rail. Also when you use water and soap and it gets on your PVC rails, they may be way too fast as some have said.

I think the lattice fence is the answer to the perfect anytime setup. If it rains, it won't keep the moisture against the wood, so your setup will last longer. You won't have to use water or soap. It should be less expensive to build and maintain. If it snows, you should still be good.
 
alot better.

I do have to water my setup with lattice fencing but thats because the dropin is 1.5 feet high. on a 5 foot dropin you wont have to worry about water
 
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