Oct 012017
Last year we made some racks for the Hosta prison (and for the porch) to keep the pots off the ground. Last weekend I replanted a hundred trees and with in 2 days squirrel had already made a freaking mess digging in the pots.
So it was time to assemble some more racks.
I love making projects like this using scrap lumber. I picked up a ton of scrap wood from a friends shop a few months ago and got the 2x4s from the scrap cutoffs pile at a local construction site.
Day one – Cut
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- Cutting Station and Scraps
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- Sides and cross members
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- All parts cut out!
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- Legs and supports
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- All Parts Cut
Day two – Assemble
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- Jess assembly
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- Jess stapling the first rack.
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- Bottom Row In
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- Frames Pending Assembly.
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- First two done!
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- Jess laying out cross supports
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- Center supports
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- Brian screwing the sides
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- Brian tacking cross members
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- What you looking at?
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- Brian doing some assembly work.
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- All 11 racks done!
Day three – Stain
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- Jess first coat of stain
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- That stain sure looks good.
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- Jess coating the top
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- Racks drying everywhere!
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- First 4 done
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- All done for today.
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- Racks drying
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- Love that grain
Plans:
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- Top Down
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- Layout in Prison
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- Side View
Brian Paonessa
For the last 10 years I have been an Internet marketer and web developer with a passion for large system integration projects. I've spent the last few years working for a small fireworks company (Skylighter llc) helping individuals and government clients with pyrotechnic projects. my day to day tasks focus mostly on web development tasks and keeping the Skylighter email marketing machine pumping out good content and offers.