| Design a backyard layout for remote control monster | | | | "mountain" sites. |
| trucks that doesn't require you to smash cars and | | | | Start building the hills using the RC front loaders. Once |
| other vehicles. Build a layout of "mountains," and rock | | | | the hill is too high for the loaders to reach the top |
| piles for RC trucks to climb. | | | | employ the cranes, and finish the job of depositing the |
| For this radio control project invite local remote control | | | | dirt until you reach the desired height. Pack the dirt tight, |
| construction and monster truck enthusiasts to help you | | | | and scrape the side of your mountain to achieve the |
| beginning with creation of the layout blueprints, all the | | | | steepness level grade you're blueprint requires. The |
| way through planning, and staging, the big event. | | | | excavators will perform most of this grade-shaping |
| Consider the different scale models, and their climbing | | | | task. |
| capabilities, when you start your initial design. Talk with | | | | Using the cranes load the rocks into the dump trucks, |
| the RC monster truck hobbyists about how steep a | | | | and haul them to their pile locations. With the front |
| grade their different vehicles can negotiate. Include | | | | loaders and cranes build each rock pile to the difficulty |
| enough hills in your blueprints to schedule hill-climbing | | | | level designed for each scale model remote control. |
| activities for every size truck. | | | | Now you're ready to schedule that RC rock and |
| Do the same for the rock piles you create. Using rocks | | | | hill-climbing event. |
| sized according to what each different scale of truck | | | | Decide on a date for the monster truck climb, and |
| can conquer, figure the number of piles you need to | | | | send out invitations to the local RC clubs. Include a |
| have climbing action for every size truck. | | | | menu of the radio control activities you'll hold, the scale |
| Once your blueprints are complete invite the remote | | | | of the models you designed each activity for, and |
| control construction equipment operators in to build | | | | invite them to bring their monster trucks, and participate |
| your RC project. | | | | in the festivities. |
| Since this is a rough terrain layout you won't need any | | | | Make sure you invite the neighborhood kids. They |
| leveling efforts. Use the excavators to fill the radio | | | | won't want to miss this remote control monster truck |
| control dump trucks with dirt, and haul the dirt to the | | | | fun. |