Ev asked me to post the pictures of the project in progress, so here ya go! First order of business, stocking the beer fridge. Here you can see that Ev has chosen Sierra Nevada IPA as the beverage of choice for building a Duck Dome. Now, it's off to power up the miter saw and cut some wood!
When I got home, Ev had built two sawhorses, assembled the base of the dome and cut most of the remaining 8 foot 2X4's. They still needed to be measured and drilled for the carriage bolts, and then we started to assemble the walls.
Hm.
What odd angles. What counter-intuitive configurations. What peculiar contortions we had to get into to attach things. After getting the first two "walls" attached, we stood back to take a look. Okay, we can totally see where it's going ...
The additional of three more 2x4's made it substantially sturdier, and added to it's whimsical appearance.
With the sun sinking quickly in the west, we got a couple more walls and top rails attached before it got too dark to work, then stood back and said, "It's good! It's big!" We aren't at all sure how we're going to put the roof struts on, since we're very short, but now we know how to build the next structure ... the screened gazebo!
The ducks will have room to put in a second floor entertainment loft, and that'll be nice for them, don't you think?
4 comments:
I like that starplate system...
Looks like your ducks will have a good shelter, if you can reach the roof. Have you thought of using ladders?
I thought that you were going to post pics of the ducks...
Pat
Cool! Beer and electric saws that says "can you help me button my pants" to me.
Chicken! The trick is to first do the sawing, THEN do the drinking. It doesn't work as well if you do it the other way. But at least if you DO decide to do your drinking first, you won't feel the pain of cutting off your fingers so much.
See? We're all about the bright side here in Nowhere.
That's right. She didn't open a beer until I got home. By then we were down to the part where I hold the board steady while she drives a 4 1/2" drill bit through it.
Hm.
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