A loader operator builds up a ramp near the center of the arena floor.
A loader operator builds up a ramp near the center of the arena floor.
The concrete floor of the SNHU Arena is transformed into a monster truck rally course, one truckload of dirt at a time.
A dump truck carefully exits through the Zamboni tunnel after dumping a load of dirt on the arena floor.
Kimberly Foggarte tapes down blue sheets of plastic over the first 10 rows of seats to keep them clear of dirt that will be kicked up by the monster trucks.
A load of dirt, one of about 100, gets dumped on the SNHU Arena floor.
Inside Look Monster Jam setup
Monster trucks may have been parked outside the SNHU Arena, but dump trucks had the right of way as they delivered about 100 loads of dirt to get the arena ready for last weekend’s Monster Jam.
Jackson Brammer and Kimberly Foggarte spread tarps over the first 10 rows of seats in SNHU Arena to protect them from dirt being kicked up by the trucks performing in the Monster Jam.
Stone Crusher and the other monster trucks wait their turn outside the arena while dump trucks and heavy equipment do the dirt work inside to get the course ready for last weekend’s Monster Jam.
M onster truck events are a big draw at the SNHU Arena in downtown Manchester, but not many people get to see what goes into getting the arena ready for all that action.
One day before the trucks of the Monster Jam fired up last weekend, the rumble inside the arena was coming from 10- and 12-wheel diesel dump trucks.
On May 12, about 100 truckloads of locally sourced dirt were dumped onto the arena floor and built into obstacles as high as 6 feet tall, arena and Monster Jam officials said — all to put eight 12,000-pound monster trucks to the ultimate test, according to officials at the arena and from the Monster Jam circuit.
Each of the behemoths, with names like Grave Digger, Jurassic Attack, Earth Shaker and El Toro Loco, used about 10 gallons of methanol each during the show to keep their 1,500-horsepower rear-mounted engines roaring.
And at each stop, after the roar of the crowd and revving engines dies down, all that dirt has to be scooped up and taken away.
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