Popular Post Rat-Matt-RC Posted Monday at 12:43 Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 12:43 Good afternoon all, Being new to the hobby, I'm thinking of making an course in my back garden. Both with set obstacles and also ones that I can change whenever I like. The ones that will be swappable, I'm aiming to use various wooden items. I went collecting wood yesterday and am currently cutting them to size and shape, with the photo to reference one type I want to make. Has anyone else got experience with this? If so how would you go about spacing them? I'm unsure whether to have two columns the roughly correct width of the Defender or whether to have multiple columns that make it more difficult to traverse, or even have multiple and have at least one of each. But it still begs the question of distance between each. But I'll keep posting as I go though, although I do feel a little nervous that I'm posting too much too often. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted Monday at 12:45 Share Posted Monday at 12:45 nahhh keep posting mate its what the forums for 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat-Matt-RC Posted Tuesday at 18:41 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 18:41 Well I've had a little play about today, got a test piece done and have had a few test runs to see what I'll need to take in to consideration. I'm oddly happy with it considering it's my first. Excuse the bad lighting. 20250204_182847_001.mp4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Partydaz Posted Wednesday at 12:59 Share Posted Wednesday at 12:59 That looks fun knocking up some little obstacles for the little crawler 😃, If you got a garden piling some rocks and house bricks can make a fun course for a crawler. I ended up making far too many ramps up on things last winter. If you got a pet see how close you can get by slowly crawling up on them 😄. Think I got up to the cats nose before he spotted it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat-Matt-RC Posted Wednesday at 13:14 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 13:14 I'm hoping to one day get a full garden setup too. Will need to acquire rocks and bricks first though as our garden is devoid of them. Oh, I'd never be able to sneak up on our dogs, they are daft but on the ball haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wombat Posted Wednesday at 15:01 Popular Post Share Posted Wednesday at 15:01 Part of my garden course, had to dismantle some to have a fence erected 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat-Matt-RC Posted Wednesday at 15:09 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 15:09 I'm going to have to collect more wood... That's awesome and as I've got quite a large garden too, so can use quite a few of those ideas. Looks a LOT of fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Partydaz Posted Wednesday at 15:40 Share Posted Wednesday at 15:40 37 minutes ago, wombat said: Part of my garden course, had to dismantle some to have a fence erected Oh yeah that's the stuff 🤤 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted Wednesday at 15:56 Share Posted Wednesday at 15:56 39 minutes ago, Rat-Matt-RC said: I'm going to have to collect more wood... That's awesome and as I've got quite a large garden too, so can use quite a few of those ideas. Looks a LOT of fun. Old pallets contain a lot of usable wood, other items can be collected from skips, recycle old furniture ( part of my course is made from an old pine bedframe ), its amazing what you can use. Check out you tube and various threads on this forum for different ideas. My next idea is to extend the course up and over the summerhouse roof (that will have to be done when the wifes out, lol, 🤔) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted Wednesday at 17:36 Share Posted Wednesday at 17:36 Well when the cats away the mice shall play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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