We have all seen the video of the guy jumping his house with his r/c, right?
Well,I thought that was really cool but it was a buggy and I have a Savage which is much bigger, heavier and not as fast. But I've been wanting to jump something big.
So it's grass cutting season and I head out to dig my mower from my shed and then the thought hits me, the shed is smaller than a house but big enough to be interesting. I wonder if a Savage can jump it???? So i get the mower out and ready then I commission my son to cutting the grass. Meanwhile I call my buddy and tell him my plans.
He comes over and we spend the next hour with evil Dr Jekyl grins on our faces as we scavenge materials out of the shed. A few zips with some power tools and ta-dah, a ramp is born. Nothing fancy, just a shoddy make-shift ramp from limited supplies and tools but $0 cost.
Here's the ramp and shed we plan to jump :
So now we're ready to fly! We call out my wife, kids and our neighbor friends to watch this one. My buddy goes first, his rig is a Cen Matrix buggy. I figure it should have no problem making the jump. Sorry, no video but I set my camera to sequence mode and wife got these pictures.
Just as suspected, a perfect jump! :celb2:
Now it's my turn, can a stock Savage 25 do it????? Well, I guess with all the fun and excitement my driving skills all got lost. But I ended up doing an unintentional backflip over the shed with a crash landing. Here's the sequence my wife got of it.
The best thing though, no broken parts, YET!!!! LOL O yeah,LOL we jumped until we broke. The buggy made 3 or 4 jumps and I got in about 5 or 6 attemps(none were very successful) before it was all said and done.
Finally the carnage list, for the buggy it was 1 front a-arm mount, cracked fuel tank and he says he found a couple more things today but didn't specify what they were. As for my Savage, I trashed the body, bent 1 shock shaft, broke a front bumper brace, 1 rear drive dogbone(after 3rd jump, repaired and still ok now) and on the last jump I broke the rear center dogbone.
Was it worth it? Heck yeah
My wife says she hasn't ever seen me smile so big and laugh so hard.
Today it's back to reality, work. But there will be a next time and there will be video!!!!!!!!!
Well,I thought that was really cool but it was a buggy and I have a Savage which is much bigger, heavier and not as fast. But I've been wanting to jump something big.
So it's grass cutting season and I head out to dig my mower from my shed and then the thought hits me, the shed is smaller than a house but big enough to be interesting. I wonder if a Savage can jump it???? So i get the mower out and ready then I commission my son to cutting the grass. Meanwhile I call my buddy and tell him my plans.
He comes over and we spend the next hour with evil Dr Jekyl grins on our faces as we scavenge materials out of the shed. A few zips with some power tools and ta-dah, a ramp is born. Nothing fancy, just a shoddy make-shift ramp from limited supplies and tools but $0 cost.
Here's the ramp and shed we plan to jump :
So now we're ready to fly! We call out my wife, kids and our neighbor friends to watch this one. My buddy goes first, his rig is a Cen Matrix buggy. I figure it should have no problem making the jump. Sorry, no video but I set my camera to sequence mode and wife got these pictures.
Just as suspected, a perfect jump! :celb2:
Now it's my turn, can a stock Savage 25 do it????? Well, I guess with all the fun and excitement my driving skills all got lost. But I ended up doing an unintentional backflip over the shed with a crash landing. Here's the sequence my wife got of it.
The best thing though, no broken parts, YET!!!! LOL O yeah,LOL we jumped until we broke. The buggy made 3 or 4 jumps and I got in about 5 or 6 attemps(none were very successful) before it was all said and done.
Finally the carnage list, for the buggy it was 1 front a-arm mount, cracked fuel tank and he says he found a couple more things today but didn't specify what they were. As for my Savage, I trashed the body, bent 1 shock shaft, broke a front bumper brace, 1 rear drive dogbone(after 3rd jump, repaired and still ok now) and on the last jump I broke the rear center dogbone.
Was it worth it? Heck yeah
My wife says she hasn't ever seen me smile so big and laugh so hard. Today it's back to reality, work. But there will be a next time and there will be video!!!!!!!!!
