Often the welded steel structural frames we build have little resemblance to the final shape of the finished feature. It just has to fit inside the final envelope. The structure doesn't have to be pretty - just extremely strong and rigid. The concrete skins that form the pretty part will tolerate no movement. If we were building in place it would be a relatively simple matter. Because we are building it in our shop, moving it a number of times, lifting it, transporting it and lifting it a final time the frame needs to handle a lot of torsional stress. This means we often overbuild just to be well on the safe side. Our current project qualifies in every way.
Heavy duty, but fun tools
One by one, the welded steel armatures for the features of a current project are completed. The theme is mining and a few of the 'expected' artifacts are being created. A recent visitor to our shop asked why we didn't simply use a real shovel, gold pan and pick axe as it would be much faster and easier. There are two good reasons. The first reason, is that the mining tools we create will have more character than real ones. Secondly, is the fact that real ones wouldn't last very long. Show a guest a shovel or pickaxe stuck in the ground and they will try to unstick it - with as much force as they can muster. We engineered our implements to stay put - no matter what.
Great news!
Great news for our family! It has grown once more. Hailey and Peter along with Juniper have welcomed Henry Daniel Lee Sawatzky into their family. We are absolutely delighted and bursting our buttons.
I once again pledge to continue my commitment to not spoiling Henry any more than our first two grand children. But I once again need to properly define the terms... Spoiling grand kids is defined as granting their every request. That obviously would be considered spoiling them and wouldn't be in the kids best interest. But, and there is always a but... if I can think of something before the child I will happily do it for that would simply be a grandparent's right.
