Almost 1 AM on a very early Christmas morning... anybody else still up getting ready? I thought assembling a swingset in the backyard would be a snap. After all, I have a floodlight I got from Target and 48 degrees really isn't that cold.

Go Bears!

Big C_Cal;842250870 said:

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Almost 1 AM on a very early Christmas morning... anybody else still up getting ready? I thought assembling a swingset in the backyard would be a snap. After all, I have a floodlight I got from Target and 48 degrees really isn't that cold.

Go Bears!

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whatever you do, don't follow the directions!

Big C_Cal;842250870 said:

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Almost 1 AM on a very early Christmas morning... anybody else still up getting ready? I thought assembling a swingset in the backyard would be a snap. After all, I have a floodlight I got from Target and 48 degrees really isn't that cold.

Go Bears!

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I have to clean the coffee off my computer screen. You gave me my first good laugh on Christmas Day. Hope you got the job done as the sun she has risen. Merry Christmas and go Bears

OdontoBear66;842250891 said:

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I have to clean the coffee off my computer screen. You gave me my first good laugh on Christmas Day. Hope you got the job done as the sun she has risen. Merry Christmas and go Bears

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Santa never did assembly at our house. No way he could hit all the houses in time.

Post on the Stanford board.

Build it inside the house and then figure out how to get it outside

My wife swears that her dad and the neighbor did that once. They were so focused (and liquored up) that they just looked at the small picture, they didn't think it through. Jungle gym in the living room.

bearsandgiants;842250893 said:

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Santa never did assembly at our house. No way he could hit all the houses in time.

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That's what I used to tell my kids!

it can be very helpful..

Tie ropes to branch....
tie tire to ropes.
Repeat

:beer:

The three most frustrating words when it comes to these situations. Word to the wise---pay for assembly or avoid any purchase that includes these three words. Too many holidays or birthdays ruined to count as a result of not following my own advice.

Hope you used all of the nuts and especially the bolts.

joethedog;842250940 said:

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Hope you used all of the nuts and especially the bolts.

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:rollinglaugh:
My wife delicately pointed out that unused parts are NOT "extras" .... then she politely pointed out where they should have been (and were eventually) used.
I have a mechanical IQ much lower than body temperature.

Two years ago I had occasion to assemble a pingpong table in our unheated garage on the night before Christmas Eve. The instructions clearly said you need two people to flip the table over after assembling it upside down. I had to do it alone. Even with some interesting rigging to help me, I still managed to pull out about half the screws as I flipped it over. 1:30am and I've got a busted, crooked ping pong table for my efforts. Spent two more hours fixing it in the upright position, putting braces and brackets in places they weren't meant to go, because the places they were meant to go were all stripped out.

The boys played ping pong for about three days.

The nuts and washers go on the bolts.

OdontoBear66;842250891 said:

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I have to clean the coffee off my computer screen. You gave me my first good laugh on Christmas Day. Hope you got the job done as the sun she has risen. Merry Christmas and go Bears

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Made it! It seems as though my 5 yr old boy is still 1-2 years away from getting up at the very crack of dawn on Xmas morning like his Daddy used to do, thank goodness.

In the meantime, I'm really starting to understand gift cards. Has anybody else ever had to try and shampoo out reindeer droppings from their hair on Christmas Day?

It reminded me of the time, many years ago, when I convinced my wife I couldn't possibly get it done in one day (Christmas eve)..So, she actually wrapped it up (it was one of those galvanized steel Sears models in a 12 foot box that weighed over 50 pounds), and it took up the entire living room and dwarfed the tree..So....the NEXT day, I enticed one of my also non-mechanical lawyer friends to help me put it up..Well, my wife laughed..and we took the entire day on the 26th..morning until dark, and managed to get it up..but had lots of stuff leftover..In contrast, my two firefighter sons had their MUCH more technical and complicated wooden version up for my son's daughter in a matter of hours..My advice if it's still not up? Hire someone.

The three most frightening words in the English language are "adult asssembly required". Hopefully, you got it together. Part A usually fits into part B/1
Go Bears, happy swinging.

And you guys think the reason why all of us Jewish folk like Hanukkah is because of the latkas........

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

I had an almost identical experience over 50 years ago. A foggy Christmas Eve in my backyard in Santa Clara armed only with a flashlight, a screwdriver and a pair of pliers. Thankfully, it was a pretty minimal set, just a couple of swings and I got it together before dawn. A few years later, having gotten a much larger set (swings, glider, slide, rings etc.) and having learned my lesson, I did some pre-assembly and "hid' the components in the rafters of the garage. Subsequently, my pre-school age son announced that he knew what Santa was bringing for Christmas. When I asked how he knew, he took me into the garage, pointed to the rafters and said "see the swing set up there"!