The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions EXPO is now just over seven weeks away and we are busy readying our display booth for this year. We will make a few more small revisions to the display and the centrepiece will be swapped out. The booth now sports a new coat of bright blue paint which we will age and distress next week. We’ll have it ready in plenty of time to transport to the show. Our booth number this year is 856 and we look forward to meeting a lot of new people at the show and saying hello to our long time friends who attend.
Cut, grind weld... repeat
We’ve got a great start on the main sign for the Hazelnut Inn. The 3D graphic is a hazelnut tree of course. Fabricating the tree meant cutting and welding many hundreds of leaves for the crown. It’s a big job which is made exponentially easier and faster with our MultiCam CNC plasma cutter. I designed the leaves on my computer using EnRoute software, duplicated it enough times to fill a 4’ x 8’ sheet of steel and then let the plasma cutter do it’s work automatically. We’ll repeat the process a whole lot of times to get enough leaves for the job. They need only a little grinding with a sanding disk to make them ready to weld to the top of the tree. Welding the leaves on is taking the longest but we are making quick progress! The double sided sign is going to be a beauty!
Elephant on parade
It’s not every day that we get to roll a gigantic stone elephant head down the main street of Yarrow but today was that day. It was the day to lift three more pieces of the Hazelnut Inn into place. The giant sleeping head was moved to the next door property on the back of the crane truck. The tower roof fit on the sidewalk as the crew wheeled it next door. The elephant head was a slow moving parade pushed by the forklift. :) Thanks to John, from Wishlow Crane Service, a very smooth operator, all three pieces were lifted and placed perfectly. It won’t be long until the next batch of even bigger pieces are ready to go!
