Woodies?

SkiMN

SkiMN

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I'm looking to build one to add variety. I'm gonna go with a down rail of some kind, I've got most kinds of lumber available. I tried a 2x4, griding the edge of it, and it caught like a mother because you couldnt get your skis flat on such a small surface. I was thinkin go with the larger side of a a 2x4, but I'm very open to suggestions, I'm not 100% sure how to do this right. Anybody made one that worked really well?
 
It works ok from what I hear, but I want a true wood rail. I like to go natural, I've been know to use logs before, so I want something that feels and slides like wood. I can add a coat of poly ot help keep from ripping it apart, but other than that, staright wood.
 
get hard wood. any type of hard wood should work relatively well, but the harder the better.
 
Trex is what that is called.

I used a 20' 2x6 all year last year as my rail. Just slid the wide part. I never really caught my edges. Every once and a while you would mess part of the wooden edge up, but we just filed it down it was fine.

Wood is by far the easiest and cheapest rail option. We did not even have supports for it, just set it on piles of snow.
 
i built a simple wood rail easily you can try freezing a thin layer of ice on the top and it works fine for winter or for winter or summer you can just wax it with skate wax it slides perfect our rail is like 2 inches wide and i can hit it fine its just unstable so it tips sometimes
 
Wax works fine, but if you get the wood right and maybe do some sealing and poly-ing or something its just as good without. As for ice, you can grind anything when its covered in ice, I can do that wil my first attemp, I'm looking a true wood rail.
 
I made mine out of a 4x4, that i put a couple of coats of polyeurothane on. this made it kinda slippery, and i found it slid alright. then i just screwed some upside down T's onto it to stabilize it.
 
Im not sure a 2x6 would work. Thats a lot of friction. When i first started making rails I made some out of port oford cedar and that slid real well. I have a rainbow that is now 4 years old and still holding up although now i have HDPE on top of it.
 
It will be on a slope, probably street style. Anybody know how badly treated lumber sucks, I have a lot it layin around and I will look for something better for the real deal but I like building random jibs.
 
Well I'm hopefully gonna find something better to do sunday but if I cant I'll grab one of the treated 2x6's I have sitting around and give it a shot, I dont really have snow to hit it with but theres always the option of a step on.
 
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