Making the sparks fly

The work site was a whirlwind of activity all day. Peter worked on welding up the waterfall by the barrel bridge pond and made great progress. There is a LOT of welded pencil rod in this small area on all of the various planters and walls.

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Jack, our new hire, was busy welding behind Peter, closing up all of the forms that Peter roughed out.

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Matt was using my welder when I was busy on other tasks. Here he is finishing off a small bridge over the stream by the gold panning area in the Wilderness Adventure.

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Just above the welders the ladies were busy tying the mesh to the welded steel armatures. Jenessa is in the foreground and Sarah is up on the ladder behind her. The walls of the planters that line the swtchback path to the lower area now have real form. They are almost ready for the concrete skin to be applied.

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Marty spent another day stapling wire to the trading post building. For the upper reaches he donned a safty harness and went up in the snorkel lift. He made great progress!

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We also installed three of the attraction signs in their permanent homes today. Here Chris holds the Wagon Wheel sign in position while Bert lays on some weld to fix it into place.

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Stay tuned as we go at it again tomorrow...

-grampa dan

Pedal Power by the Hour - step two

It was a great day on site with three crew welding armatures and the rest attaching lath.The park is quickly taking shape.

After the regular hours were done I spent a little time in the shop geting two signs ready for the next stage. The park entrace sign is now ready for paint. I also cleaned up the 'Pedal Power By The Hour' sign which I glued a few days ago. That involved cleaning up the glue lines on the edges and adding a little random texture to the faces. It looks pretty cool already.

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Then it was time to hoist it into position and weld it into place on top of the pole. Next I formed and welded up an armature, around which I will sculpt the bear on the unicycle that powers the gears. He does not look like much yet but he will quickly take shape when I start sculpting.

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The sign is now ready for the sculpting to begin. I can hardly wait...

-grampa dan

Moving day again!

Chris was back in town today and that meant it was moving day once more. The first load was the features for the kids activity center. Both of today's hauls were tricky to load and tie onto the tralier. Luckily we didn't have to travel far.

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The second load was the cacti and artifacts for the western area.

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Chris was like a kid in a candy store as each load arrived and took great delight in placing each piece. 

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Now there are only two or three more loads of large pieces to haul up to the project. It sure is looking colorful up there!

-grampa dan