what we alway do is stack railroad ties in the shape of the ramp and cover them with clay or some good quality dirt, dont use sand, you will wear the ramp down to nothing real quick by hitting the gas.

 

yeah i have a tabletop too and its great for learning because if you dont want to go that far, you can just land on the top and if you want to go far, u land on the landing. I have to redo mine though because it is so compacted from jumping so much, its like concrete

 

I wish my house was on some real land and not like .10 acre so I could build some of my own jumps. We only had one place to go back before I had a quad when I used to BMX that was a real nice area. We had real nice dirt jumps there four our bikes and like nobody in this neighboor rides anything else so no quads or dirtbikes were ever around to ruin our bike jumps. Well they ended up building a bunch of houses in that area, but there was still one nice open spot where they couldnt build because it was reall far back (where our jumps were) and the people who moved in let us stay... until one day some dumb @ss lit a fire in the woods behind there, the next day we went back after the fire the dude came out and told us he was a cop (some BS I think) and we couldnt come back anymore. Now that I'm actually thinking about it he probably wasnt a cop and that probably wasnt his property and I could have probably stayed there! Damn