Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Homemade Park Bench

I want a bench to sit out on the dock and fish/read/relax.  It needs to be very heavy so that it won't wash away when we have the inevitable hurricane. 

We found a bench like this for sale -$400 for a 4' bench!!!!


So, resourceful Duane decided it was worth the effort to just make one.

He did this yesterday -  made a mold out of scrap lumber.


 Getting ready to mix the concrete.



Concrete poured and setting up.




And this is as of this morning - first side out of the mold.  Ready to mold another.  You can't see it, but he has molded in thick strips of plastic composite "wood" at the edges to bolt the wooden seat and back boards.   Will update when we have a complete bench!!


2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Impressive!! MOM

affectioknit said...

I think that's pretty AWESOME!

Love,

T