Hi, My name is David and I am from Lancaster MA. This will be my first attempt at building a backyard rink. My kids took up skating this summer and I figured this would be a good project to keep them excited about skating and me working outdoors. I have already layed out the size and slope of my yar...

Hi M, Thanks for the pictures this is very similar to what I had in my head for our first rink. Could I ask what you used for stakes and how deep you set them. I see some people use the standard stakes sold at home stores but I was thinking of using 2x4 cut to a point with bracing, might be a pain t...

Thanks Joe,

All good information and very helpful. At this point I think I have settled on the use of 2x12'. I would like to ask how are your triangular brackets secured to the ground? I was thinking I would need bracing every 5" so with my layout I would need 32 braces.

David

Joe, Thanks for the advice. I am going to make my own brackets. I tried out a couple of prototypes over the weekend and I think I am going to go with a 2 x 4 stake approach, I cut one to a point and then tried to hammer it into the ground in a couple a different places in the yard and was easily abl...

I was wondering if there was anyone else out there in Central MA. I was Looking at the 10 Day outlook and it looks like we might have a good window to fill this weekend. However I have heard we could be getting a "plowable storm" at the tail end of the weekend. I am thinking of waiting to ...

I have a similar issue here. Sunday Temps were in the sixties with heavy rain. So far this week it has been cold for my rink to start refreezing, however last night we got about 3-4 four inches of heavy wet snow. This morning my rink looks like most of snow melted and now outer edges are rough, funn...