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HappyElaine
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Out side Play sets YUCK!
« on: Mar 17th, 2008, 4:51pm » |
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We bought a outside playset for JD. You know the wooden one with the tower and the swing. Well the box said two people and one day to put together. Yea Right NOT !
First it took two weeks for me to get the right parts. All we wanted was the tower. Because they shorted us a whole box of wood they gave us the swing that goes with it. Cool ! 
The first day you spend going through the wood labeling it all.
Making sure everything is there. Then wait for the weather to clear and start putting it together. OMG the instructions are unreal. It will take my Brother and I a whole week to do this.
I paid him to help me. I asked him today if I was still his favorite sister . He said he would have to think about it 
I just happen to be his only sister. He has been out of work and needs the money. Today we got the frame together. Try answering the phone to insurance people (about the damage the hail storm did to the house and camper). Teaching JD, and running in and out to help my brother. When he left to go home, I think I crawled up the back steps. Got me a bottle of water and I have not moved any thing else the mouse on this computer. I hurt all over.
My brother George figured it will take us a week. That means two weeks because of rain coming. JD sure is good about it all bless his heart. He has worked to.
Last week he sat down with me and helped me label all the wood. Then he and I carried it around to the back of the house. He is finding out how numbers and letters and measurements help us do things. He is also learning that you have to work for what you get. That it doesn't just get put together by fairies. LOL.
Here is a picture the tower we are working on . But this picture doesn't have the swing set in it.
Just click on the link.
http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/752113/752113050075md.jpg
His birthday is in May hope we get it done by then !
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Re: Out side Play sets YUCK!
« Reply #1 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 5:15pm » |
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Too bad we live so far apart or I'd take a day off and slap that dude together for you.
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Re: Out side Play sets YUCK!
« Reply #2 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 5:33pm » |
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Oh echo, if you lived close by I would take you up on that offer in a heart beat. I would then not let you do anything. We would just sit around and talk all day.
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Re: Out side Play sets YUCK!
« Reply #3 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 5:53pm » |
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Re: Out side Play sets YUCK!
« Reply #4 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 6:16pm » |
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The very first step in building one of these is to take the instructions and put them to the side.
Step two is to look at the pic and go from there.
Step three is to go do something else for awhile and get your blood pressure back down.
Step four is to go get those instructions back and get to know each and every piece of this outdoor play set.
I also, if I could, would come and help you build it but I am a little far away to do that so here is my support that you two get this built without too much grief. Best of luck and take deep breathes, you can do this!
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Re: Out side Play sets YUCK!
« Reply #5 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 8:09pm » |
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Five years ago we put up a massive number in the back yard. Full slide, three swiings, tire swing underneath the tree house and a moon deck. I paid the guys who I bought it from to set it up. It took them three people half a day. That was the best $800.00 I've ever spent.
My best advise for a next step is to layer 5" of wood chips around the base extending 10' in every direction. It turns broken bones into bruises.
Don't use pine because his clothes will have pine pitch all over them. Buy the playground chips. They're more expensive but not more expensive than replacing all his clothes ever three weeks.
Good luck...
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