Built a campus board in the garage...
After leaving V-world early because of the kids coming in around 4'ish, we decided to do some building in the garage. This time we figured on building a simple campus board for upper body strength training. Here were the basic plans:
Build an A-Frame similar to that we used in the building of the first wall, however, use a lot of steel instead of all the extra wood we used the first time. The A-Frame should angle at about 20 degrees for the campus surface to be at the appropriate angle. since incut wood is hard to find (we don't have a router ourselves) we decided to used some nice beveled deck wood (however, the cut is an outcut, not an incut).
Here are the material run-downs:
7 - 2”x6”x8' studs
2 - Tie plates
Square and Steel Square (tools we didn't have handy)
2 Frame anchors
4 Fence Brackets
A bent piece of deck wood we got for 0.61 cents
1 - 1”x2”x8' length of pine
Altogether with tax only 43.40
So we got the thing together in about an hour and were ready to put the campus slats up. Since the wall is only 8 feet and only 4 feet usable we only needed 4 slats of each type. This would normally mean a 3/4” flat surface, a 1” flat surface, and a 1” incut surface for a normal board. So we threw up the 1” flat surface first (it is actually sloped or outcut though). Once this was up we couldn't frigin climb on it at all. Super slippery and you are just asking for a hurting. Since this was the largest surface we had bought (the other surface was a 3/4” flat), we decided to throw up a 2x4 run (these have a 1.5 inch flat surface with a slight outcut or slope).
At this point we have an extremely ghetto campus board with some strange slopey slats that I don't want to talk about, some 1.5” flat surface slats made out of 2x4's, and we are scared to even try putting up the pine slats because we KNOW they will be far too hard to climb. Both Michael and myself were pretty tweaked by the time the board was done so he did a route up the 1.5” surface and I just fell off a couple of times without really making any moves. Either we put the angle too extreme (miscut?) or did something wrong because this is one hard campus board.