This page shows multiple descriptions and pictures of the building process, volunteers, installation of the activities, equipment used, and landscaping activities we did to complete the project.
Below is the initial building phase with me mapping out and placing flag markers for each telephone pole. Each of the 41 flag markers had a specific hole location, hole depth and telephone pole length that would be put in the hole. This effort was followed by me giving directions to the SMECO foreman and his 9 crew members using their SMECO utility truck and a track vehicle with drills and hoists in the digging of 41 holes to the correct depth, placing 41 telephone poles of different lengths in the correct holes, and then filling and packing the holes. This includes the Stepping Stones and Bridge Out activities, since they mainly consist of telephone poles in the ground.
Below shows me directing the SMECO crew using the 41 flag markers as guides, and the crew digging 41 holes, putting telephone poles in the holes, and then filling and packing them.
Completion of the Cargo Net activity.
Below shows much of the work completed to build the 100 foot Monkey Bridge. This includes some pictures of sealing metal brackets, cutting and positioning 6x6 beams, putting brackets on beams and drilling eyebolt holes, screwing in eyebolts for brackets and hand hold clevises, rolling out the foot and hand ropes, making and installing the stringers, design of the tightening system, the storage box for the Monkey Bridge tightening system, and adaptions that I made to improve the design like adding in splicing at its' starting point and pulleys on the beams to help prevent wear of the foot rope as people walk on it.
Below shows pictures of building the Zig-Zag Balance Beam.
Below shows building and placement of the Whale Watch Giant Teeter-Totter team building activity.
Below shows the building and placement of the Raging River team building activity.
Below shows building the Upside Down Rope activity.
Below shows building the Tire Rope activity.
Below shows building and placing the Storage Box/Bench that holds some team building activities including 4 Walking Planks and 10 Lava Crossing Squares.
Below shows some volunteers sealing the Stepping Stones. We also sealed the beams of the Monkey Bridge, and the wood on the Raging River, Whale Watch, Storage Box/Bench and Monkey Bridge tightening system storage box.
Below shows the landscaping efforts, a bobcat, wheelbarrows and volunteers moving sod and dirt that was originally taken from the top of the tennis and basketball court asphalt; placing the sod and dirt back onto the course. Trucks also delivered 55 cubic yards of mulch that volunteers spread around the activities. This was a lot of work especially laying all the sod, which provided a green grassy area next to the activities when it was completed.