Occasionally, being a boatbuilder attracts calls from some unusual customers. See, we already do kind of weird work, so if someone needs something odd done, we get the call. This job was pretty simple, so I thought. Just fiberglass some plywood concrete column forms. Trouble is, when the forms were dropped off, they were in the few thousand pound range, rather than the few hundred pound range I thought they’d be. Anyway, I was able to get them in the shop with some floor jacks and heavy duty casters, now they needed to be split in half so I could glass the inside. The perfect application for some homemade wooden gantries. I have these gantries and some chain hoists to flip boats over when needed, and they worked great for these forms as well. The real reason I’m posting this, however, is that I recently acquired a new phone with a good camera that takes decent time-lapse movies, so I tried it out. Here it is:
Not terribly exciting I know, but I like it because it makes my kids crack up every time they see it, and that makes it all worth while. Now, if I could only really work that fast, I might actually turn a profit this year.