Welding is fun

Not a lot to report again this week. I managed to clean up the mess that caused last week's toubles (that's nice).

We're still getting ready for Winter. We've put plastic up on the old windows (the new ones don't need it). We've moved wood to the Three-Season room so that it's handy for our woodstove.

We've also turned on the Central Boiler – it's running like a Champ and providing a ton of heat. I think I've figured out the settings for Spring and Fall better now, so there's less waste.

The big news this week is that I've finished my welding project.

Let me back the truck up.

I was visiting with Mom and Dad about a month ago and noticed that they had little footstools under their kitchen table. The table is a Pub Table and is higher than a normal table. That means that the chairs are higher too and your feet don't touch the floor. The idea is that you rest them on a rung on the chair.

That put too much pressure on the backs of their knees and was uncomfortable after a while. So Dad built footstools – exactly 7 ¼ inches tall.

I offered to weld up a Bar Style Footrest to go with their Pub Table and they thought that was a great idea!

So I measured the space under the table (45 x 23) and welded up a couple of lengths of steel pipe into a foot rest. It has height-adjustable feet so that you can level the unit or raise/lower whenever you need to.

I think it turned out pretty nicely and that's pretty much where this last week's project time went. That and moving wood.

It was fun.