Sunday, January 9, 2011

building the floor

With my mad engineering and carpentry skills, I spearheaded the next part of our project - building the floor frame onto the trailer.

Nah. I'm kidding. I'm probably the most engineeringly challenged person in the universe. Give me some plywood, nails and hammer and tell me to hammer away and I'll do it...but leaving me the task of designing and constructing...uh, just don't ever ask me, okay?

But anyway, our next part of the project was to construct the frame for the floor of the trailer. Simple enough, right? Actually, a lot more went into it than I thought! We had to get the wood cut into perfect dimensions, cut up enough cross beams to provide support for the frame, put it all together making sure everything was aligned as perfectly square as possible, tar the bottom (to waterproof the underside), and bolt it all to the trailer. Throw in some sawing, gluing, nailing, hammering, routing, and tar coating and you have yourself one heck of a fun time! :-)

Here are some photos...enjoy!