I have a big hill that I am going to be tearing down to make my land more flat. I don't know what I should do with the clay dirt that I have. I was just wondering if any of you guys have any advice on how to make an MX track. How much land do I need at the least to make a good MX track, what tools (I only have a BobCat Skid Steer), and what kind of material do they actually use at the real MX track?

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i dont know too much about makin a track, just trails, but the skid steerer yuo have is good enough for tools and all you have to do is ride them enough to where the dirt is relly hard

 

I didn't write this myself, but I found it on another website and thought it might help you:

start off small. dump a few loads of dirt on top of each other pack them down. roll over them with your quad. carefully roll over them. do not go over the lip ..u roll on them to pack them down. or you could pack the jump down with the loader. i do both.

hit the jump you just built a lot of times. to get the hang of how it sends you. if it sends you wrong you'll be ok since it's a small jump. if it sends you wrong add more dirt onto it and make it slightly different than you did before. like how the lip is.

if you want to start off big. make a 5 ft tall pile of dirt. take the bucket and roll up onto the pile. get the bucket the farthest back possible on the pile. push the bucket down and go backwards to make the jump have a curve. pack the dirt down either with the bucket or with your quad. make a landing. if ur landing is far away and you don't know how the jump sends you i suggest making the jump a triple. make a small landing in between the bigger landing.

landings are hard to make. they take at least twice as much dirt as the take offs. you can make the triangle landing, as i call it, which consists of you making one the jump side of the landing tall and then tapering it down to make like a wedge. or you could make a more round landing which is a lot smoother but harder to make. good luck. hope i could help ...it just takes practice.

 

keelam- You can have nice track on as little as 5 acres. The bob cat is a little small to move much dirt. I built a mx track a few years ago. We moved in about 5000 yards of dirt for one part of my property. Last year i tore it down and hauled the dirt off. My track got to be a big hassle. Everytime i turned around there were people i have never met out there riding on it. I would make sure your insurance company knows what you intend to do. Have fun building it. I had a friend lay it out for me. We laid it out and started buiding it. Took 3 of us about 2 weeks. The up keep was a pain.

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Thanks. Will hard clay dirt work as the soil material, and do I have to do anything to it to keep it in good shape, especially after it rains?

 

I think clay would work pretty good. I'd wet it down some before you start to pack it down, since clay doesn't pack well when it's dry, it just turns to dust and crumbles. I think once you get it packed down good you shouldn't have a whole lot of maintainance other than filling in ruts and smoothing out rough parts. Just one thing with clay - when it's wet it's slippery as all hell, so you might want to watch yourself if you ride when it's not dry.

 

yeah, ill do that

 

how equivilent is it to a dump truck load for the amount of dirt i need to use for an MX track for 1 acres? ? And does any body noe how many square feet there is in a acre? thanks

 

well be careful with those jumps. i just messed up my ankle today taking a new jump i made. i rode it about a million times and then i decided would experiment using diffenent power and some how i end up screwing up my ankle

 

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