After a monumental surfing day on Saturday (probably 5 hours in the water with a little trip to the Windjammer for wings in the middle), it seemed time to do something better with our surfboards than just stick them somewhere under the house. Well, maybe Mom had something to do with motivating us ... and she was cleaning up everything else under the house. So ... we thought ... did a little research on the internet ... scrounged some wood under the house .. bought $10 of stuff at Lowe's (3/4 inch dowels and a 3/4 inch drill bit) and went to work.
The best location seemed to be behind the heat pumps on the East side of the house. Surfboards don't like sun, as John pointed out, and this place remains shady.
John also contributed the idea of having beach sand for the surfboard tails to rest on. So off we went. First John dug a rectangular shape while I got other stuff from Lowe's and Mom discovered all our "lost" tools under the house. We set 1 x 6 in a rectangular form nailed to the heat pump support. This was leftover wood from building the house or some other project. We then placed the ground cover material to prevent stuff from growing up into our "sandbox". Dimensions here were 5 ft x 28 inches.
We then cut a 2x4 we had laying around in to a 5 ft length and drilled 3/4 inch holes in to it. We set them 10 inches apart. We then nailed the 2x4 up again the heat pump frame. Gimpy Gus came to observe and declared it A-okay.
We cut the dowels into 2 ft lengths and set them in place using a little wood glue. Yes, without the surfboards in place you can tell they angle a little up and down, but no problem.
Then came the hardest part. Sneaking down to the beach to get sand. Actually, getting the wagon and containers down and filling them up was so easy we were talking about making two trips ... until we tried to pull said wagon off the beach. Arrrgghh! Eventually we made it, however.
Finally back at the ranch, we shoveled the sand in to the pit.
Looked pretty good as the sun was setting and the mosquitos were coming out to eat us alive.
And it looked even better with the surfboards in place. The only other thing we will add are some eye screws to the end of the dowels and then run some nylon string to keep the boards from falling out during wind.
So yes! Sullivan's Island Selbies can build things too! And visitors can surf any time they want!
The best location seemed to be behind the heat pumps on the East side of the house. Surfboards don't like sun, as John pointed out, and this place remains shady.
John also contributed the idea of having beach sand for the surfboard tails to rest on. So off we went. First John dug a rectangular shape while I got other stuff from Lowe's and Mom discovered all our "lost" tools under the house. We set 1 x 6 in a rectangular form nailed to the heat pump support. This was leftover wood from building the house or some other project. We then placed the ground cover material to prevent stuff from growing up into our "sandbox". Dimensions here were 5 ft x 28 inches.
We then cut a 2x4 we had laying around in to a 5 ft length and drilled 3/4 inch holes in to it. We set them 10 inches apart. We then nailed the 2x4 up again the heat pump frame. Gimpy Gus came to observe and declared it A-okay.
We cut the dowels into 2 ft lengths and set them in place using a little wood glue. Yes, without the surfboards in place you can tell they angle a little up and down, but no problem.
Then came the hardest part. Sneaking down to the beach to get sand. Actually, getting the wagon and containers down and filling them up was so easy we were talking about making two trips ... until we tried to pull said wagon off the beach. Arrrgghh! Eventually we made it, however.
Finally back at the ranch, we shoveled the sand in to the pit.
Looked pretty good as the sun was setting and the mosquitos were coming out to eat us alive.
And it looked even better with the surfboards in place. The only other thing we will add are some eye screws to the end of the dowels and then run some nylon string to keep the boards from falling out during wind.
So yes! Sullivan's Island Selbies can build things too! And visitors can surf any time they want!
3 comments:
PROUD!!! How much rust did you have to scrape off those "lost" tools? Heehee... I love it when Selboys get their heads together in the mindset of building something though, and am happy that the camera was around for this.
Did Gus really get dressed up for Halloween though? And did he re-hurt his not-yet-healed paw or just break it again? Egghead... I see that ball too...
Also, my favorite picture is John checking out the sand wagon ;) We live in the best place on earth.
I second the PROUD! Also, that picture of JOhn on the beach should totally be his Facebook picture.
Good work Selbymen!
I'm glad that Gus tried to help too.
Great job, guys! You 'uns done good. (BTW: we really DO say "you uns" here. Unbelievable, but true. To sound like a native it is almost, but not quite, one syllable. "Yoo-ns").
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