Pre-Spring Chores Begin
This is our hammock. It’s my hammock, really, as I lay in it probably 80% of the available yard-lounging time. I love it. A hammock just says “Hey, quit that working. Bring a book and an adult beverage over to my canvas lap and enjoy the breeze.” Well, after the last wind storm (which I did NOT know was coming) grabbed the hammock and whipped and twisted it around like a big stripey America’s Cup spinnaker, the post on the left got decidedly loose and leany. It had already been a little off 90 degrees due to some initial Quickcrete meets sodden-clay setting issues back when we first installed it but it was nothing we couldn’t live with – nothing that wouldn’t keep my swinging butt safely suspended. After the wind storm, though, a suspended butt was no longer in the offing.
Enter Beth! (I should totally write her a little piece of introductory super-hero music for moments like this.) Saturday she came up the back yard steps with bags of concrete, a shovel, and rebar. REBAR–friend of the hammock or swingset lover! She dug out the old post and reset it with re-enforcements. It now stands plumb and EXTRA sturdy (though currently without hammock as it is raining), just waiting for the first warm sunny hour without chores. Beth should really hate the hammock for the way it lures me from her MSWord project lists. Clearly she spoils me.
hellohahanarf said,
February 25, 2008 @ 9:58 pm
oooooooooooooooooo, that is a fine hammock. thanks to beth it will be even better! yaaaaay, beth!
(you are spoiled in the best of ways. good news is you deserve it.)
brit said,
February 27, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
when I grow up I want to be you guys.
Lynn said,
February 27, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
Ahhhhhhhhh, so nice to be spoiled!
Arabella said,
February 28, 2008 @ 10:16 am
It’s the least she can do, now that she can shower without trepanning.
Fred@OneProjectCloser said,
March 1, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
I love hammocks. Even better when you couple them with adult beverages. I’m curious as to how the rebar was used to reinforce the post holds? Is it put in parallel with the 4×4 (or is that a 6×6?) or perpendicular to it? How deep did you dig the post holes?
Very nice site. Thanks for sharing.
Fred@OPC
Beth said,
March 3, 2008 @ 11:14 am
I dug them about three feet deep and put in rebar that was parallel and perpindicular. It was by no means up to code of any sort of building…just a way to better reinforce the concrete in the very shifty clay. Essentially, an attempt to lessen the chances of beer-spilling.