A friend of mine, Blake Bowman and I got hired to move a swingset and this wasn't your run of the mill swingset. It was 17ft wide and 33ft long. We took the slide and monkey bars off of one side and the swings off of the other. We were than left with the main tower. We hauled the swing, slide, and monkey bars to the house and unloaded them and then we went and borrowed a skid steer from a neighboring farmer. Then we went back to get the tower. Our original plan was to lift it up and then take the stairs and rock climbing wall off and set it on the trailer.  However when we got back it was getting late and we wanted to get it moved before dark, so we just set the whole tower on the trailer. As can be seen in the picture below. Even though we were hoping to get done before dark we didn't and it was dark when this picture was taken.

This tower is between 12-15ft tall when sitting on the trailer and there is a beam that sticks out around four feet on the otherside, it is what is holding that rope ladder. After it was loaded we put the skid steer back on my trailer and strapped the swingset down. We had around ten miles to travel and it was going to take awhile.  We made it to the driveway of the house we were delivering it to without any mishaps but then things started happening. The first thing was that we hit a small tree and broke the beam off the side. Not a big deal that is fixable.  However when we hit the powerline, that was a little bigger deal.  It didn't break but I had to climb up onto the roof of playset and pick the line up and hold it above the roof while Blake drove out from underneath it.  Thankfully we learned later it was a dead powerline and of no importance. After that everything went great and we got it unloaded. Also we were able to fix the powerline and are in the process of fixing the beam.

Here is a picture of the full swingset, after we reassembled it.

 

I haven't had a chance to post for a while, I got really sick two weeks ago and I have been busy trying to catch up on school and some other stuff and my blog kind of got pushed off to the side. Otherwise not a lot has been going on. I was able to help a friend put a hitch on the pick up he just bought. That was a nightmare, what I though would be a two or three hour project ended up being a a seven and a half hour project, although we did get it done.  This picture was taken at about dark as you can see which was about four or five hours into working on it. (I'm the one bent over grinding.)
 


I am planning on remodeling a room in our house fairly soon. My dad said I can have it as my own bedroom but I have to be responsible for gutting it, putting in insulation, and hanging drywall.  I'm not into carpentry but it would be nice to have my own room so I've recruited a couple of friends and we are going to gut it this Saturday.  I'll be sure to take some pictures so you can see all that is going on.