Has anyone successfully built a turfdog style land board, that you can learn Vulcan’s on? If so how did you do it? Issues I have considered are:
Weight –should I go for the lightest castor wheels I can find for the front?-
Board –Make my own out of plywood or use some kind of skate board deck. I noticed that the actual turfdog has a higher level deck where the castors attach would this be important to emulate-
Dimensions –If anyone could tell me the dimensions of the turfdog particularly where the mast base goes, size of the deck, wheels and back axle would really appreciate it-
Also any suggestions of good spots to turfdog in Sydney more than welcome.
Thanks in advance
I saw some great boards of this type in Maui.
Are you really planning to learn to do Vulcans on dry land ?
Is there anything worth leaving me in your will ?
If it was me, I would be scouting around the parks close to your local shopping centre.
You will undoubtedly find a plethora of abandoned shopping trolleys.
Make sure you have a crescent in your back pocket and quickly knock off the two best wheels.
The size of these wheels is perfect for skipping over most pebbles within a carpark without tossing you in a screaming heap to the bitumen.
PS: you didn't hear it from me about borrowing the trolley wheels 
Imo, practising backside 180s on a skateboard would be useful to get the motion for start (popping and turning in the right direction...) , after that a turfdog or directly in the water...
Shopping trolley wheels would probably be great for bitumen, but thinking more along the lines of pneumatic wheels (anyone now the diameter of the wheels they use on turfdogs?), to cope with either short grass or hard sand for a slightly more forgiving surface !!!
Been thinking about the split level deck on the turf dog and I guess it is to make for a level board with the height difference between the way the wheels are mounted for castors at front, and skate board/mountain board axel at the back. Wondering whether I would be able to modify a cheap long board deck to do something similar
Just did a price check on those.
I can see why you want to build your own.
Interesting bit of kit though.
I built something similar a few years back, but it was not a spectacular success. It did work, but I made the deck too large probably, and I found it got bogged easily in all but the hardest sand.
I never really tried it on grass etc.
The pics on the Turfdog site give you a pretty good idea about dimensions etc, and where to put the mast track.
For paved surfaces, you could just use a big skatey, or start with a big skatey and bolt an upper deck on of larger dimensions to put a track on an a bit more real estate for feets.
I made one in an afternoon with dolly wheels from magnet mart.. I also had a proper one at work, so Ive compared both.
the turfdogs got trucks at the back and i just bolted fixed directional wheels and it worked fine..
but still boring and painfull.
