DAY 4
Alright Day 4, we got a new camera guy today. Jeff Shinoda, is his name and the Sony VX2000 is his game. We started as usual early in the morning around 8am, the winter cold is just finally starting to settle in and for us is was pretty dam cold about 48 degrees! Needless to say we all had our hoodies and beanies on.
We started off by cutting some more side pieces for the runway up the levee. This was our first day without Shane Mooney, one of our main builders and luckily Jarred was able to get one of his friends Dillan to come help. After we built the 2 pieces of the runway we had to assemble them at the perfect angle and mount them in place. This is the hardest part of any of our building days to date, reason why is that we had to custom fit the whole runway to the levee, which is no easy task.
Once the first piece was set at the correct angle (Jarred and Dillan are holding it in place) I marked the connecting 2x4s drilled holes through them and mounted bolts to connect the two. Then propping the back of the piece up, we measured the length of 2x4’s needed to for the first supports and then for the back supports. After mounting those we started making our braces. We really needed these braces for stability purposes, with the runway 5ft above the ground it would be shaking without them.
It was very interesting today, both Jarred and I had injured ankles. Jarred’s foot was in cast from breaking a part of his foot, and I had a severely strained ankle that had been recovering for the past 2 weeks. So both of us were limping across the set and trying to climb up the levee and hopping on one foot down the levee to finish building the ramp. Haha We finished the second piece soon after and mounted it to the levy, we were ready to call it a day, but had to finish building one more runway piece to help prep for tomorrow.
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