Trucking fees for our features aren’t inexpensive, especially these days of high fuel prices. To maximize value for our customers, we must use every square inch of space on the truck trailers. We use step deck trailers to allow us to build the features just under ten feet tall. There is forty-one feet of available deck on the lower section and a further eleven feet on the step deck. The bottom section of the skull rock feature is just under eight feet tall. There is just enough space (as designed) for the log feature and water tower weather vane to be tucked inside. The large feature hangs over the lower deck high enough to allow the shipwreck feature to tuck underneath it about three feet. Other tall features will stack up behind it and fill the deck to the maximum without wasting an inch. It is a bit like assembling a giant 3D jigsaw puzzle. Stay tuned…
'Wood fence'
Between large projects, we do home chores. We began our fence more than twenty years ago, and when we need some work to keep our crews employed, we complete a little more. The 200-foot fence between our good neighbours and us was completed on their side, but not on ours. The project languished while we were busy on the Hazelnut Inn, but that project is now finished, and we have a little time to get it done. The ‘wood’ fence is a great project to practice our sculpting techniques. It is going to be great to see this done at last.
Blend coats on tower
The last piece for Vala’s Pumpkin Patch to be painted is the water tower. Jay’s ambitious project for the day was to do the blended coat on the legs and braces. It is bigger and more complex than it appears, but Jay was in, under and around the giant tripod all day. With only a few minutes to spare, he painted the last of the rivets, making it ready for the glazes, which start on Monday morning. Stay tuned…
