posted
Transport and installation day for our pieces is always both challenging and fun. Advance planning is the key to success.
Yesterday I delivered the second piece - a log car for the WhistlePunk Hollow Adventure Golf train sign. The steam engine was transported to the site a few weeks ago. Our customer built the trestle and did a wonderful job too!
Our client had a large excavator onsite for the lift and was also a very skilled operator. The lift of the heavy log car was flawless.
The steam engine was trickier to slide into position but Jeff again was smooth and steady. Our job on the trestle was to guide the piece to the marks on top.
The result was spectacular and looks much bigger and higher than it really is. The sign reads well as you approach the attraction from down the road.
This will be fun to golf under too.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
I think that Ray is trying to say that we expect nothing but perfection from our favorite grandpa.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
Always nice to see a dream come together...whether its your own or someone elses... This must be pretty exciting for those folks...Nice work Grampa,you have a gift for that (helping people realize dreams) whethers its through your work or your workshops...Its even a thrill for us bystanders to see it happen...
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
The train and log car weight in under two tons - not a lot of weight for this structure. It was engineered but I spec'd much heavier timbers than were required - just for looks. The trestle will also get some cross bracing in both directions - once again mostly for looks.
The trestle will be a little over 50 feet long when completed.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Thanks all. This is a very fun project with three other large features as well as a whole bunch of dimensional signs.
We sold Giggle Ridge last year. This is for a customer's project in Squamish (which is near Whistler (where the winter Olympics were a couple years ago)
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
The client asked for a logging theme similar to Giggle Ridge. Their family history is in logging.
Although it shares a bit of theme from Giggle Ridge there are many differences in course layout. The level of detail is much higher on the features as well. Much of that is because of our MultiCam and how we now build our stuff in our shop instead of on site like we used to in the past.
The course signs will all be dimensional of course.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic