Conquering power tools

Remodeling requires you to be able to use power tools to complete certain tasks. Yes, technically you could use man power to nail and screw things into things (heh), but I don't have hulk arms and I don't plan on spending my time at the gym cultivating hulk arms.  I like my lady arms.


So, I'm going to have to learn how to use power tools.  And today is that day.

FRIENDS! LISTEN!  HEED MY WARNING!

Power tools are dangerous.  My dad, the guy who built a house and a company with the help of a multitude of power tools, has also succumbed to some severe accidents when using said tools.  This one time in high school I got a call from my brother who was frantically screaming

'Dad cut his arm off with the circular saw'

A sentence that definitely warrants a frantic scream.

Special thanks to Kristin and her foot
for helping me today

Thankfully he didn't cut it off, but he did hit bone and he does have a very big scar from the incident.  And being that I am his daughter, I have inherited a lot of my father's traits.  Some of them are incredible, like his sense of imagination and ingenuity.  I'm glad to have some of that in my genetic makeup. Other traits of his I inherited are his klutziness.  Unfortunately, the combination of my imagination plus the power of power tools plus klutziness equals....I may cut my arm off trying to nail some wood to some other wood.

How?  I dunno, but it's very possible.


Thankfully my friend Kristin came over and offered to help with the assembly (THANKS KLO). We started off by drilling pilot holes first and then drilling in the screws but found that we could forgo the first step pretty quickly.  The beds came together nicely.  There were a few instances of warped wood splitting but nothing that damaged the integrity of the final product.

BEDS INSTALLED!

We ended up doing three beds in one day but without the braces on the longer sides.  I needed to buy more wood for that.

The next day I ended up back at Lowes buying some more wood and some chicken wire for the bottom of the beds. Then I finished up the last box, added on the side braces and placed them into their plots.  I ended up turning them upside down so they sat lower on the ground.  I'll figure out how to trim the tops later. 

I also bought some more wood to create two benches for my potted plants because now that I'm confident with a power drill...I AM UNSTOPPABLE!

Up next.....dirt.