Well my weekend is SHOT!!!
 

I went off last night for awhile and the wife said she needed my truck.

Ok, fine I said...Ill take your car. ::)


Well I get home last night and the wife has THIS loaded on my utility trailer behind my truck. :o





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Except its in 45 boxes and all strapped down. :? ::)

:o :o :o


Guess what IM gonna be doing this weekend.


HELP!!!!! :o

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Yup your weekend is hosed now!

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WOW, But just think how happy the kids will be ;D
It took me on and off two weeks to put mine up, but i mostly spent most of the time in the back yard drinking beers ;D

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just hope you finish this weekend! those things are tough. at least that one doesnt have the suspension bridge. plus i am sure you will have richard simmons over helping. maybe he can translate the instructions for ya.

will we be seeing pics of you in a thong and tool belt?

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be a real man, throw the directions away, they're mearlly the opinion of the manufacture, by the time your thru, it will double as a boat lift for doing trailer work or lifting engines

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Agree with everybody. Poor bastage.
Sean beer is plural and singular. DON'T SAY BEERS
THERE AIN'T NO GRIT IN GRITS, IT'S ALL PLURAL,YOU CAN'T FIND ONE GRIT.
It's like fish, their singular and plural. Fishes is what you do or addressing it's anatomy.
Sorry please forgive me I gotta find something to shoot or catch on a pole. ;D

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Is that thing huricane proof? I'd suggested to the wife the safest thing to do would be take it back, for the kids safety that is.

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I'm sorry tsubaki, it will not happen again :-[

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Ahh, who am I kidding,
I love my beers!!! ;D

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;D ;D ;D

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ches, don't give Stinky any ideas. Let him do the husband thing.
We all probably would benifit from it. ;D

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Your weekend is shot? Try week.

We put one up almost identical to that one at our church, we had about 7 or 8 guys working on it and it still took 2 days to build.

Good luck SH.

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reasoning for being self employed ......( ours is not to do the work of 10 men .... Its to have 10 men do the work for you)...... ;D

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Wish I'd had them bastages working for me. Seemed like I was wipeing their asse (excuse me) noses, the whole time.

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thats what i thought too slinger. now that it is not my job to work. it is my job to worry. and on top of all the stress, i havent ever worked so hard in my life!

but all that aint squat compared to what stinker has gotten himself into,lol. should we start a pool on how many left over pieces he will have when he's done,lol?

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put $20 on 12 pieces and 7 days

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Sorry Stinkman...but it's the fatherly thing to do ... watch her face when she sees it the 1st time...it'll make it all worthwile ... just don't ketch yer Nortons one the end of one of those ladder-wrungs :o ...

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Well boys when I got home Friday afternoon I worked for about 3 hours. I had 4 boards bolted together when the "structure" fell over and I was ready to give up. :-/

About then I slung the air ratchet across the yard and probably said something profane. :-X

Then Lana walks over and picks up some miscellaneous board that is far from the next step and says "hea, daddy :-* "
:P




http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing001.jpg




My will to quit was extinguished by that little girl and I said "self even if it kills you this mofo has gotta go up" :o



Here are a few pics....


parts....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing002.jpg

more parts.... :-/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing004.jpg



and more parts... :-/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing006.jpg



The instruction book has 99 steps and I dont have a picture of all the fasteners, but I guarantee you they would FILL a 5 gallon bucket. :o






Me in the rain Saturday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing003.jpg





The wife felt bad for me (YES!) and came out and set up an umbrella. ::)



This really helped (since I wasn't soaked to the bone anyways) ::)


I worked ALL weekend with the help of my dad and a buddy on Saturday. Dad and I finished her up just after dark last night. 8)



I took a couple finished pics before work.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing009.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...n/swing010.jpg




All in all it wasn't that bad....aww who am I kidding IT SUCKED!!! ;D


The instructions were very well written and all the wood was top notch cedar with excellent milling so everything went together well. We only had to trim about 3 boards out of 300. 8)




The most important step is that I got some MAJOR deposits into the wife's honey do account. I have a full pass this weekend and I'm off Thursday and Friday because we are getting the beach house ant the island. Sweet! 8)



It helped a whole lot that every time she walked outside to check progress I would wipe the sweat from my brow and bend over in exhaustion while mumbling something about dying too young. ;D ;)

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good job man! Funny how those little ones get ya by the heart, at last my two do. Any starboard mods in mind?

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LOL yeah Im thinking about putting a cutting board on one end. 8)

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Now that is a work of art!

Looking at that pile of sticks I know that...

• 1 - I'd have parts left over or
• 2 - not enough parts to finish the job and
• 3 - it would not look anything like the picture on the box!

My hat is off to you.

(wait 'til you start paying for college, that will REALLY kill ya'!)

Steve P.

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good job stink man, looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;)

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i knew you could do it. never had a doubt! so, how many left over parts?
and not that it matters but, if you look at the first picture you posted, you got the ladder and the slide misplaced.
the good news is that now that you have done one, the next one will be easier. i think Wyatt will be big enough by next summer,lol.

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p.s. the yard looks nice. congrats on the upgrade!

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LOL the slide and ladder arent misplaced they are "improved" per the CEO's instructions. ::)


No parts left other than screws and nuts and bolts. 8)

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Job well done Stink. Your daughter will be happy for years to come. ;)

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DITTO ;D