 So I'm just at home today and I wanted to get a little pole jam built. I don't have access to working with metal like welding and cutting and stuff. So I thought it'd be cool to figure out how to make a wooden pole jam. And there's a bunch of scrap material at the house we have here. I'm gonna go check it out right now, see if we can conjure up any kind of ideas to make this wooden pole jam come to life. So I've kind of got a rough idea of how to build this thing. I mean, these are metal ones. I'm trying to make it wooden. So first option is to build it like this to have the main piece of wood, maybe some angle on the sides of it so you can grind it and then some supports and then another block of wood with some rubber underneath so it doesn't move around or to kind of make it like an A frame and then put another wooden support beam through the middle there, but basically like this. Here are the really terrible kind of mockup sketches of what I'm trying to achieve here today. Here's some more. Yeah, they're pretty nasty, but it just gives me a rough idea of how to put this thing together. So I'm gonna go check out the wood and see what we have to play with today. I might have to go buy a hacksaw to cut up the angle, but yeah, should be an interesting video. So this is the wood and stuff I've got here. Play around with a fair bit of wood. I thought I could have used this angle or this metal here to make the angle, but it'd have to be cut down the center there. So I'm not too sure how to achieve that. But yeah, this is what we're working with today. All this stuff here. I've got an assortment of bits of wood here. I'm gonna show you guys a really, really cruel, crude, rough mockup of how this is gonna come about. So basically, hang on, give me a second. I might have to put the camera down. So basically this is how it's gonna work. We're gonna have the base here, the footing. There's gonna be a support beam there. This is gonna be the main pole jam thing. So this is what you're gonna pole jam up. And then there'll be another support right here. It's just I don't have another piece of wood, the same size as this, I'll have to cut some up. But yeah, that's a rough idea. I've just got to do some beveling. So I'm gonna have to figure out how to bevel this edge so it sits flush up against the main bit. And then making it bevel to sit onto the foundation piece should be pretty easy too. But yeah, that's roughly how it's gonna come about. I think it'll work pretty well. I might have to do some dumpster diving at Home Depot to find if they have any loose bits of angle iron or bits of iron that I can use. I was gonna use that metal piece off the bed frame, but I don't think it's iron. I think it's aluminium. And aluminium doesn't grind. So yeah, I'm gonna have to go to Harbor Freight, get an angle grinder, and then do some dumpster diving at Home Depot. This is a spot right here, guys, for tools. I think Harbor Freight have their own line of basic tools. This was a $20 angle grinder. It's got a cord though. It's not battery operated, but I mean, come on. For 20 bucks, if you're just doing small stuff around the house, these are like perfect. So come on, bunnings, step your game up. $20 angle grinder. Beat that. Well, we've got a lot of wood, but no metal it seems. Trying to keep this build as cheap as possible. So I had to buy the angle iron. It was like 13 bucks for this five foot length. I don't need five feet. It was just cheaper to buy one whole five foot length than it was to buy two four foot lengths or three foot lengths or whatever. So I've got to get this cut down for this. So it all matches up. But the plan is to pretty much get this cut and shut. So it's, ah, come on. What's going on? Yeah, so the plan is to get it cut and shut and screwed down to the piece of wood here so that your trucks can run across it and kind of pole jam up it. Cause if it was just wood, you'd probably get stuck. Just a little disclaimer here, guys. Always remember to use the correct protective equipment if you're using any types of power tools or anything like that. A pair of glasses, a pair of earmuffs goes a long way. I'm totally just freestyling this. There's no straight edges or triangles or whatever I'm working with now. I'm just trying to eyeball it. All right, change your plans again. We're just going to do one support this way and then have the base. And I bought some rubber stuff to put under the base and the other bit. So it doesn't move around. I think that should do quite well because it's quite sturdy already. You're skating it for like two seconds. You're like pole jamming up it and that's pretty much it. So if you hit it at the right angle, it should be able to stay place, I think. But this is where we're at so far. I've just got to figure out how to bevel this piece here to get it flush with the base and then that part there. So as you guys can see, you can set an angle on the circular saw here. And I've just kind of lined it up so the blade, so that the guide, sorry, is sitting flush against the wood and the blade is, yeah, just on top of that black line that I drew earlier. So that's how I'll be able to cut it precisely. I've got these little L brackets here. Basically, I'm gonna chuck them in on this side underneath, screw them in, and then on this side too on the top. So there's a decent amount of support going on right here. And then I'll be able to draw through some screws into the base plate here. But so far, so good. Looking pretty sketchy, pretty DIY. Wonder how this thing will ride. Kind of made a bit of an oopsie here, guys. The screws I used are too long and they're sticking through the other side. So I'm just gonna angle grind them down. How sketchy is that? So I'm not too sure if it's a common thing to get frustrated and to kind of just rush through what you're building, to kind of just get it done, get it bolted in and get it finished. But damn, this thing tested me like, it's a shame this video is gonna be, this part of the video is gonna be edited so bad because I'm gonna try to make it look like it was smooth, but it was the opposite of smooth. I had to re-cut and re-drill things like three or four different times. Finally got it sitting now. I've just got to add on the rubber padding underneath. Finally got it to where it's like decent enough to be able to skate. Check it out. This part's pretty much flush with the ground. The base plate's pretty flush. This is all screwed in. Pretty gnarly woodwork here. These are all screwed in as well. The screws I used were too long so I had to angle grind them down. What else could have gone wrong with this project? So pretty much this rubber matting comes in like squares so I'll have to cut it to size to fit there and I'll have to cut a little bit off to fit onto here as well. So I'm gonna get that done. So it moves a tiny bit, but I'm sure if you put it on like a rough bit of concrete like in a car park or something, it should sit pretty well or you can just adapt to it moving around. I don't know. So not that I wanna do any more building today because I'm pretty burned out right now. I think this pole jam needs an extra bit of support. Just like a single parent at Sandlink, I need some support right here guys. So I'm gonna have to bevel this edge here then drill this in here. I think that's a lot better. I don't know why I didn't think to put that in to begin with, but I stood on it and it bent a little. So if I stand on it now, if I stand on it now, good as gold. Look at that. 67 kilos and this thing is holding up. So I think we're good. Here we go. We've got it chalked up against the little manual pad slash ledge here. I knew this was the right man to see about a pole jam. You're gonna go into it. Oh my God. How do you feel? It shoots you out. It doesn't shoot you out too bad, huh? See if you can do it off the drop. Oh, switch. I've never done a switch pole jam. Just glad to get to my head. Get a hit. Oh my God. That's so intimidating to go back in. Like go down it. It's like a two foot year. Like this, who did this? Oh, Louis-Bart, look, put down. Is that a no comply pole jam? That's cool, no? No comply pole jam. No comply pole jam. Can you back 180 or front 180 off it? Oh, you got it all day. Damn, we got food on deck out here, Redlands. It's like a get in, get out type situation Into a bank? Yeah, into the bank or off the stair? Like the gaffer. Ah, I get you. Up the euro will probably be pretty cool. Oh my God, look, dude, no way. That's a big hop. Damn, you got this. Like this, so it's gonna be a bit offset. Are you hopping out of it or is it just like a- I'm kind of ollieing a little bit. Like you gotta like push yourself up it. I think it's easier out of the bank because you're already kind of going at it. Don't fail. Can you do that? You've pole jammed this thing before, right? Yeah, I've done it. It's no different, don't fail. He likes to shake things up a bit. You will go and he will stay. Yeah, you're gonna go and you're gonna be like, I'm gonna be like, I'm just trying to sink. I'll hold this thing anyway you want. Is this better for you? Oh, hang on. Do you want me to do that? Do you want me to do it or do you want to do it? He wants to do it. Okay. He wants to get a pole jam for us on video. You green sack. All right, dude. All right, go. I'll hit you. If I hit you, I'll bite you. Worth it. You got this. That was easy. I'm better than him for that trick. Mine was more work. Yeah, first try. I'm so glad that was first take. Dude, me too. Good shit. Had a ton of fun building that pole jam kind of. It was fun, but it was frustrating, but now it's done. I'm glad it's built. I can just not worry about it and I can skate it. I didn't find any other wooden pole jam videos on YouTube, so I figured I'd make one myself. Literally and figuratively made the video and the pole jam. Had a super fun time, but yeah. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. I'm super happy you guys are digging the longer videos because it's more fun making more content for you all to watch, but yeah. Cheers for watching the video and I'll hopefully see all you guys in the next one. That was easy. I'm better than him for that trick. Mine was more work.