Celebrate your independence: with mechanicals!

I realized a life-long dream this weekend. I finally got to jack something up! Sure, it was just a garage, but you have to start somewhere right?



Of course, my carpentry manhood was dashed when my friend Del showed up (he lent me that screw jack) and said: hey, you guys got the Internet? I don't have a computer but I'm on YouTube this week. Del's woodworking is amazing. Watch this video and remember: no metal parts whatsoever. All wood and glue. Note the wooden chain. A WOODEN CHAIN!



It doesn't actually do anything, but that makes it as useful as just about any steampunk device, right? Merlin Mann eat your heart out!

I may post a full photo essay on the garage project at a later date. You should see the dryrot! But at the moment I'm rather thesis driven and the garage is still in progress. The last thing we did tonight was dog-proof the side of it that faces the neighbor's. That rottweiler is friendly, but I'd hate to be the one that let him loose. Oddly, after putting a whole new sill around the whole perimeter, the back wall is now suspended about 1.5 inches above it's new pressure treated sill. Think it could have sunk that much?