Day Two
It’s our first day of work, so we got on the job site at the crack of noon. To be fair, we had to go to the bank and get coffee. We didn’t quite have all the tools, but that didn’t stop us from busting out all the platforms and the flat bottom. Mistakes were made, to be sure. It took us a couple of sections to get all the bugs out. We finally got a system worked out, which was good because there were no written plans and were deciding as we worked. One of the real construction workers in the building gave us a really helpful hint. Sticking your screw tips in a bit of bee’s wax makes it darn easy to ease in or take out a drywall screw. A cheap abundant source of wax is the ring seal used to seat toilets. Getting back to the ramp, it’s big. 32 feet wide, 11 foot transitions and a foot and a half of vert. Golly, that’s big. With a big job like that ahead of us, we worked till about 4:00 and then quit because we didn’t have the materials and tools to cut out the transition. We cut out 150 or so 2×4’s for the ribs and then went to a hobby shop to look at radio controlled gliders. We looked around at the meager offerings before asking the guy if he could recommend a better selection. “Oh, we’ve got the biggest selection in town,” he claimed. To which I replied “But you’ve only got two gliders, and they’re both the same model!”
The splotches on the photos are reflections of dust in the air caused by the flash. The warehouse was one of the dustiest places around.
Next Day: No slow starts.
