Advice required on showground off-road course

Advice required on showground off-road course

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cy88

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2,808 posts

237 months

Thursday 28th July 2005
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Sorry, I'll try again.

Our LR club was going to be putting on a display of Landies at a big car meet soon, and we were going to be JCB'ing an off-road course in part of the arena so that we could put the cars through their paces - trenches, hillocks, cross-axling and the like.

However, the arena has now taken a booking for a big concert the week after the car show, and we're no longer allowed to dig up the ground :(.

Now, I don't think our budget is going to stretch to the kind of thing that you see at the Land Rover Experience or the G4 trials, but has anyone had any experience in designing / building a course with scaffold, telegraph poles, railway sleepers, etc etc. We don't have much time to come up with an alternative to our original plan, and I need cheap, viable and moreover safe ideas.

Many thanks in advance

CY

mechsympathy

54,252 posts

262 months

Thursday 28th July 2005
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You could try the producers of Scrapheap challenge, they did a series where they built off-roaders and one of the challenges was a race on a built (as opposed to dug) course.

Alternatively, sleepers are pretty cheap from reclamation yards...

Graham

16,369 posts

291 months

Sunday 7th August 2005
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How about a couple of old flat bed artic trailers and piles of pallets..

you could maybe get someone to load the trailers for advertising ?

CY88

Original Poster:

2,808 posts

237 months

Wednesday 10th August 2005
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Thanks for the feedback guys