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Date Posted: 19:44:14 01/29/04 Thu
Author: David
Subject: Re: Our new pallisade
In reply to: Sharon 's message, "Our new pallisade" on 08:01:31 01/27/04 Tue

Hi Sharon,

when I was in LA in December, doing a little training with Leri, I'm sorry I couldn't make it up your way.

Next time for sure.

Congrats on the pallisade!

David

>I am super happy to announce that we have FINALLY
>compleated our new pallisade. It is a welded
>immovable monster, but the design could easily be
>adapted for bolts instead of welds. Will post some
>pics on my site in the (hopefully:) near future.
>After buying too much of not perfect materials, we
>learned that any good welding shop can make the peices
>for the "legs" for not very expensive ~ 60 bucks. Ask
>for them to make a peice called a "channel" that will
>accept 2by4s ( or the smaller wood if you prefer)
>They willl bend a flat peice that then looks like a
>"U" and the rest is not so hard. I like the "channel"
>legs because it is very stable and should never need
>to be redone. As far as a portable design, I would
>reccomend that you bolt at the feet, the ramp to leg
>connection and the and the ramp to feet connection.
>We put ours together in a few hours. It would have
>been less time if we had let the real welder do all
>the work, but we were interested in learning/trying to
>weld ourselves. Btw, welding is a LOT more difficult
>than I had thought it would be. Unless you have too
>much time and money, I would say just let a pro do the
>welding.....
>We are in N. California right off the I-5 and welcome
>folks on their way up or down the coast to come check
>out our "temp" field.
>Sharon
>www.californiamondioring.org

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