I do think picnic tables are something that will "loose happy thoughts" jsut look at me, 10 years later, I still remember that the picnic tables were to wide to fit under my awing and that the ratio of seat height to table height was too great. When you set up one of the first things you do is grab the picnic table and put it where you want it. I do totally LOVE the idea of a lantern holder (in our case patio lights) holder attached to the picnic table. The T idea is excellent. The only thing about paint is, then you ahve to re-paint. I would say if you could get some pvc pipe as a lantern holder that would be ideal. Might want to consider white PVC so that you can find them laying around. I would vote to have them removable. People will want to take them out to put on a table cloth. Why not jsut drill 2 holes, one at an end and one in the center, and let people put the pole where they want it. i really do think this would make people really really happy. At all the campsires I have been at, people always have to jerry rig something to hang a lantern or patio lights.
WOW! what and eye opener, I jsut googled plastic picnic tables and they are like $700 & $800
Home & Garden: Recycled Plastic Picnic Tables & Patio Tables - The Builder's MarketPlace @ NorthWest Builder's Network, Inc.
That idea of having a vocational school or tech class make your pipes for the legs sounds like a good idea. Plus with the plastic tops and seats, you don't have to re-paint.
As I said earlier form a user perspective, i would really not have happy thoughts if the picnic tales were non movable. You may see this in parks in picninc areas, but peopel are not there for more than one meal, it is transient. If I am going to be at a site a few days or a week, I seriously want to
move my picnic table under some shade.
What did you think of my idea of building a few sites that were fenced in for dogs? In this way people would not have to leave their dog on a leash, you could charge more for these sites. Advertise it as fenced in sites for your dogs (even for people with toddler children would like those sites) i know that idea is kind of 'way out there' and if you don't care for the idea my feelings will not be hurt.
My happiness factor will go way up if I had a picninc table with a built in lantern holder and two posts half way down the side lot lines so that i could string patio lights. the thing is if you string the lights from your camper all the way to the back of the lot, without support half way down, the run is to loong and the lights droop.
Possibly you could jsut dig a hole, pour in some cement and put in a pipe level with the ground so that the lawn mowers can mow over them. Then you provide a long pipe that slides into the holder pipe that is in the hole. I guess what i am trying to say is that the pipe in the cement is like a casing. If people don't want to use the upright pipes they jsut slide them out and lay them on the ground. Plain unpainted pipe is just fine I would think.
just imagine how pretty it will be to walk through the campground at night with patio lights framaing the sites. It is a way to have your site lit with low lighting that is away from your camper. Unles you get lucky on a site and there are existing trees, the only other place you can hang patio lights is from your awaning and that is not lighting the 'site' it is jsut providing additional ligting in an area that already has lights. I prefer to have lighting on my site, i always ran patio lights over to the fire pit. I jsut had another thought. The same pipe, sticking up on the lot line, can be used by both neighbors, if it had a T in there somewhere. That would reduce the project cost by half and also is is a very good indicator of where the lot line is, so people don't get into issues about it. It is a way to mark the lots as well.
