The Playset that Love Built

Love and some help from the Elder's Quorom and a fantastic neighbor with awesome power tools. Here is the playset Tuesday morning, August 25, after the Elder's Quorum helped us Monday night for a few hours. They got the main frame up and motivated us to finally open the boxes and dive into this project. One of the Elders who helped is our neighbor and he brought over a power compressor which really made putting the hundreds of lag bolts in a lot easier. He let us borrow the compressor for the week and without it, the project would not be finished.

Here is some of the wood and hardware that Ben and I sorted on Tuesday.

Here is how much was finished by Thursday afternoon. Ben did all the rest of this work himself with a little assistance from me at points that required a second person to hold things in place. I also got to screw in a bunch of pan head screws for the brackets and rock wall attachment. So much fun. The playground main frame is complete and safe for children to play on. The only part left to attach is the swing beam and then the support frame for the swing beam.


This is Friday evening after the swing beam was attached. Our neighbor with the compressor came over again and helped attach the swing beam because I just was not strong enough or tall enough. Finally it is finished and the children love it.

Because of how much the ground slopes we had to cut off part of the swing beam supports so it isn't as high as it should be on one side. It still works great, though, and is perfectly level and it saved us from having to move a ton of dirt. Brenna hates the slide. We sent her down once by herself, once with Lauren, and once with Ben holding onto her. She cried each time. Maybe in a few months she'll like it.