Pictures!!!

The steel has arrived! Roughly 900 feet of cold steel tubing warms my heart.

Craig explains to Patrick that there are 3 ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the SteelRoo way (usually involves burning something).

Why not use 2 people to do one job?


Hard at work, you'll notice that there is light and no one's breath is showing. Yay new shop!

Connection testing. Notice the high tech dial gauge. Go Roos!

Fabrication Station

The last week has been very busy, but very productive as well. We got fabrication started off on Saturday, and made some excellent progress. The new shop is working out great, and all of the new tools really improve our precision and our production. We got most of the steel cut for the girders and are in the process of welding together the girder sections. We've had a few learning experiences already, including chewing the teeth off of a band saw blade and builiding a jig that wouldn't release the piece after it was fabricated. But all in all, I couldn't be more pleased with our progress so far (unless we had the connections). We also had a successful test of our connection design on Friday. Now if we could just start practicing our run through...