Progressive Expansion
The first week of May ended almost as planned, I sold off more stuff out of the garage, and this left me enough room to build the workbench. With any construction project for a first time there will always be logistical errors. I thought the glue would be enough to keep everything pinned down and with the hinges as support I thought by the next morning I'd just be able to turn it over. Of course the legs fell right off the next morning, I ended up having to make runs to Home Depot and Ace Hardware to get screws, a drill, and drill bits. Though delayed I finally had it standing on its 4 feet by Thursday morning. The next project that had to be done was the stilts and that too I thought would super easy. No such thing, the 1X4s were perfect for the stilts and I figured the easiest way to do it would be to dig in from behind the deck and then hammer and drill them in from the front. The wood resisted the screws and even a few bricks on the back didn't do so much to add res...