New Project,,, Any Guess As To What It Is??

[comancheflight]

Picknic table

 

[jaxs]

Good daughters can keep dads busy forfilling wants and needs.:laughing: That look's great. I become impatient and frustered drilling that many holes and wind up welding instead. What kind of bit and drill are you using?

 

[CADplans]

Picknic table

We have a winner!!

Lakeside Amusement Park in Salem VA closed many years ago,, and sold the picnic tables.
Those tables were probably sixty years old,,, then,, (30 years ago?)
They charged $25 a table, but, they all needed new wood.
The wood was not treated, so the old boards were VERY rotted.
I bought one and put new wood on it,, after 20 years, I gave it to my daughter,,
It still looks like new.

I went to her house, measured it, then built the red one.
My wife has a leg issue, that makes it hard for her to get up.
SO,,, I built this one with the seat about 6" higher.

This one will have the synthetic boards, rather than treated lumber.

Stainless bolts are in the mail,, and should be here in a day or so,

Will this be the first ever handicap equipped picnic table??

 

[CADplans]

Good daughters can keep dads busy forfilling wants and needs.:laughing: That look's great. I become impatient and frustered drilling that many holes and wind up welding instead. What kind of bit and drill are you using?

42 holes are easy when you have a power-down feed drill press.
I just use some old HS drill bits.
With power-down feed,, the drill bits almost never get dull.

This is my drill creating a "little larger" hole,,,:thumbsup:

 

[CADplans]

Good daughters can keep dads busy forfilling wants and needs.:laughing:

Daughters keep grandma busy sewing,, while I weld,,,
so, I am not alone in being abused.

 

[CADplans]

Here is a pic of the picnic table that I have had since 1986,,,

 

[jaxs]

"Daughters keep grandma busy sewing,, while I weld,,,
so, I am not alone in being abused."

Keep up the good work IMO,another day with kids is worth more than a week of golf.
Let me slide my :soapbox: over here and talk to the younger generation. My wife's sister was widowed shortly after her children married. She met and married a wealthy bachelor with no family ties. The two of them traveled the world for 40 years,seldom returning home and spent few holidays or special occasions with family. Meanwhile grandchildren and great grandchildren were born. Two years ago,she was widowed again. She can't comprehend why she is so lonely and has been unable to establish a relationship like other elderly women have with familys. Soapbox returned to closet and I'm headed out to the shop to work on my old Airstream that house's me,my son and grandsons during hunting season.

 

[CADplans]

The bolts came today, so, I attached the composite boards to the frame.
Luckily, I could back the trailer into the shed,, shade was nice,,,

I will now see if I have enough material to build another one for my daughter to use in her garden area.

 

[comancheflight]

We have a winner! I thought I got the second one?

 

[CADplans]

We have a winner! I thought I got the second one?

The winner gets the same cookie that Don Rickles presented in the movie "Kelly's Heroes"

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