Well my weekend is SHOT!!!

[tsubaki]

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

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.

[lumberslinger178]

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

[tsubaki]

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

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?

[spareparts]

put $20 on 12 pieces and 7 days

[reelapeelin]

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 ...

[Stinky_Hooker]

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









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....



more parts.... :-/





and more parts... :-/





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.







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.










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 ;)

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

[Stinky_Hooker]

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