Metal gate

Kimbal Gardner had some scaffolding and he was nice enough to give me some of it so I could recycle it into a gate. These pictures show what it looked like before, during and after construction. I bought some additional metal from Scholtzen products here in Hurricane. I used my fork lift to hang it up. It is designed as a bump gate. You just bump it with the bumper of your auto and it swings open.

Summer 2012

I have been quarrying stone this summer with Brad Quinn and Roy Madison. This is really interesting work. This is very physically demanding work. The upside is you can eat as much as you want and you will still lose weight!  Seriously, you do get in good shape after a couple of weeks of this.

Grand Canyon Rig

I needed to rig at a place where I could not back into the water very far so I borrowed some roller tubes from Michael Denoyer and used them to roll the boat into the water. Here are some pictures of the set up in my yard. It worked great a week later at Diamond Creek in the Grand Canyon. The trailer has steel  rollers bolted to the tail. While traveling down the highway to the launch area  the roller tubes are deflated,  then blown up to roll the boat into the river.

This boulder was too big for Allen Lee to move around, so we split it in half for him.  Brad Quinn, Allen and I used feathers and wedges to split it open.

I put stone onto this house. I had to match the stone already on the house and that was a little tricky. It is  harder to copy  work than you might think. I blended it in and you can not tell where the old left of and the new starts. Thanks to Rick and Patrice for this project.

CCC camp stone column restoration

These stone columns were built by the CCC back in the thirties. For some unknown reason they never capped them so the elements were slowly tearing them apart. I capped them and while dong so noticed the retaining wall stones around the north column were coming apart. So I took a day and with the help of Brian who works for the town of Leeds, we reinforced and put the wall back together.  Thank you to LoAnn Barnes, George , Jean and Allen for getting this together. Thank you to the fair town of Leeds for the opportunity to work on this fine project.

Rockville entry

I helped Brad Quinn to place these stones and build the stone  sidewalk in front of a Rockville, Utah home. Simple , but real nice work.