How Do You Build A Halfpipe Or Ramp?
Learn how to build a halfpipe in this article, based on a 10 foot high platform with a 5 foot radius and 5 feet of vertical. • Decide how tall you want your halfpipe to be and how wide a platform that you top 5 feet to be vertical. (**Caution, if you build a 10′ ramp with 5′ of vert, it will be like skating the shallow end of a pool…fun, but not practical…on a 10′ tall ramp, I would suggest a 9′ radius and 1′ of vert**) You should have a minimum of 4’for the decks. • You would need to make a full size template of the quarterpipe so that you can use it to mark all of your end supports the same size. 1/4″ plywood works very well for this. • You can hold the pieces together with duct tape, but it’s better to cut scab plates out of 3/4″ ply where the seams join together and use 3/4″ wood screws to hold the pieces together. • Rip one sheet of ply in half the long way, well actually rip it to 23 and 3/4″ so you can get two rips from one sheet. • Cut two feet off of one of the rips and sc
