Rene and Lina have been busy updating the waterfall in our backyard. It's now taller and longer with a bigger pool at the bottom that might hold koi fish one day. It's always been my plan to make it look like the ocean at night. Here's our first try with much more work to … [Read more...] about Waterfall 2017
Projects
Great Dale Swamp Cooler
The Great Dale Swamp Cooler prototype is complete and tested. This is a modification of a modification of the home depot swamp coolers that people usually build for Burning Man. I made a couple previously for burning man and learned a lot from my mistakes. The idea here … [Read more...] about Great Dale Swamp Cooler
Great Dale Door Holder
We've always had a problem with the door on the Great Dale. There was no way to latch it open and it would blow around in the wind. I tried a standard RV door latch in the beginning, but the bedroom windows sick out too far. Larry tried a couple of options when he re-skinned it, … [Read more...] about Great Dale Door Holder
Big Wheel Transport
We've had the big wheels for a couple of years, but we really didn't have any way to transport them to parks away from the house. Harbor Freight had a sale on a storage platform and I had some pipe left over from the kayak stand I built for the truck that I turned into a … [Read more...] about Big Wheel Transport
My New Workbench
I've always wanted a real woodworkers workbench. The stationary and rolling ones I built in the old house were from Home Handyman and aren't really designed for the work I want to do in the future. The stationary one in particular is really just used for storage and was a pain … [Read more...] about My New Workbench