I took the labor part of Labor Day a little too seriously. Manual labor all 3 days. What a contrast to my life writing and designing software.
Remember this thread?
http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53471
A few nights last week I went over to Reval’s house and worked on breaking it down enough to move it on uhaul’s 6x12 open trailer. Ended up with two towers with all the walls removed to save weight, removing the slide and connecting tube, as well as removing the little deck. Easier said than done considering this thing appears to have been built to survive an 8.0 earthquake in the middle of a catagory 5 hurricane.
Saturday morning I picked up the uhaul and had a bunch of friends meet at my house at 11. I had taken the fence apart on one side of the house but still couldn’t fit the trailer through because the fence opening was 7’8" and the trailer was 8’2". My friends Dakota however would fit through the fence so we used a couple of tie down straps to drag it through the back yard. We got it into the general position it would be reassembled and I took off to do that arial wedding photoshoot. Later that night after returning the uhaul I went back to Reval’s and picked up all the parts we took off to make the thing lighter, which pretty much filled the back of my Expedition.
First thing Sunday I got up and started putting it all back together. Then I used a come-along to drag the two towers the right distance apart to connect them with the tube. Of course my yard wasn’t level enough so I had to build up one side so the tube would line up properly. Once I got both sides level with some cement slabs and I finally had two towers connected by a tube.
Monday morning I started the day with a trip to Lowes because I had stripped one philips head bit, broken one clean in two and lost the last one somewhere in the lawn. Restocked with bits I wrapped up reinstalling all the wood bits. Since my kid isn’t ready to be climbing the really tall ladder or using the cargo net climb I modified the tower without the slide by turning it into a fort with the wood railings picked up in the second trip to Lowes. When she’s a bit older I’ll put those features back on. A quick call to the brother in law for assistance with the slide and before long that was reattached.
Since I still had a few hours of daylight left I figured I’d at least start the pressure washing. Turns out once you start a job like that and you’re covered in gray water it’s one of those jobs you just suck up and finish.
Here it is in my backyard:
:tup: to Reval for this great playcenter his help getting this apart last week.
