Day 7: Finishing the Bank

February 17, 2008

DAY 7
Alright so now it seems like were getting back in our groove again! We started the day late and again had a new camera man from our friends over at WatchDoIt.com. They brought in a nice HD camera and Jason gave him the layout of the film. Then we stuffed some donuts down and were off building. The previous build day we cut all the wood needed for the landing bank. Its dimensions were to be 8’ wide, 6’ high, and 16’ long. Everything started off alright; the recycled 4x4s that we were using for the base of the bank and the support beams were a bit old and had some rather large cracks. We just needed some longer screws to take care of that problem though. Scoffman was constantly running back and forth to the shed with the blueprints to the bank to make sure all the height of the transitions were correct before they were screwed into place. Jarred Dahl and Shane Mooney were there and built the majority of the bank while Scoffman was making sure the ramp was right to the inch. Then out of nowhere, Brendan Dane popped into the scene about halfway through the building of the bank to come and help us. He’s some guy we found sleeping underneath the ramp one day. Rather nice fellow really. He helped out for a good 30 minutes before he wandered off the property looking for a rabbit to eat for dinner. (Not really. But a man named Brendan did help out on the project for a little bit.) Nearing noon, we closed out with our filmer and finished up filming for the day (the filmer had to leave according to his clock). The ramp was done except for the last few inches which had to be a rollin. We spent another 30 minutes after the filmer left and made the pieces, installed them, and added cross braces to the bank to secure it.. Then with just 4 of us, Jason’s brother John Huewe came out to help move the ramp. It was a pain to move a football field away, but at least we won’t have to move it again. We’ll cover what we did after the filmer left, at the beginning of the next build day, so no one misses out. Almost done!