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  • jziegler
    Veteran Member
    • Aug 2005
    • 1149
    • Salem, NJ, USA.
    • Ryobi BT3100

    #1

    Spring outdoor projects

    I tried posting this yesterday and my internet connection died while I was doing it, so here goes again.

    This spring, I have been busy with several outdoor projects. I build a small garden bridge, a bench with a trellis over it, and I finished a bamboo fence around a section of the front garden (I no longer have a front yard on that side of the house, just a garden. Less mowing The bridge and fence were my own ideas, based on other projects and pictures in books. The bench is a plan from a Bill Hylton book that was modified to use lumber that was readily available. The lumber was some 15+ year air dired white cedar that my father in law had in his garage. He had planned a project for it that never happened, so I got it when I came up with good projects for it. The bamboo came from his yard, mostly stalks that were dead and need to be cut down anyway.

    Jim
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  • Pappy
    The Full Monte
    • Dec 2002
    • 10490
    • San Marcos, TX, USA.
    • BT3000 (x2)

    #2
    I like the bridge and bench combination. To me, the fence looks a little out of place with the style of the house.
    Don, aka Pappy,

    Wise men talk because they have something to say,
    Fools because they have to say something.
    Plato

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    • lrogers
      Veteran Member
      • Dec 2002
      • 3853
      • Mobile, AL. USA.
      • BT3000

      #3
      MAYDAY, MAYDAY..... QUICK Sam, delete this post! Every so often, LOML looks over my shoulder. If she sees these projects, I'll be locked up in the shop until she has a set just like it.

      All joking aside, those look great. I especially like the arbor seat.
      Larry R. Rogers
      The Samurai Wood Butcher
      http://splash54.multiply.com
      http://community.webshots.com/user/splash54

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      • Crash2510
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2006
        • 830
        • North Central Ohio

        #4
        very nice work
        Phil In Ohio
        The basement woodworker

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        • John Hunter
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          • Dec 2004
          • 2034
          • Lake Station, IN, USA.
          • BT3000 & BT3100

          #5
          Very nice.
          John Hunter

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          • gmack5
            Veteran Member
            • Dec 2002
            • 1972
            • Quapaw, Oklahoma, USA.
            • Ryobi BT3000SX & BT3100

            #6
            Good on ya!

            The Arbor/Seat look very nice and the Bridge looks good as well.
            Now you need to add some plantings around the Bridge to tie in into the surroundings.
            Stop thinking why you can't and Start thinking how you CAN!
            Remember, SUCCESS comes in CANS!
            George

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            • mater
              Veteran Member
              • Jan 2004
              • 4197
              • SC, USA.

              #7
              Very nice looking work.
              Ken aka "mater"

              " People may doubt what you say but they will never doubt what you do "

              Ken's Den

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              • bigstick509
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                • Dec 2004
                • 1227
                • Macomb, MI, USA.
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                #8
                Very Nice Work


                Mike

                "It's not the things you don't know that will hurt you, it's the things you think you know that ain't so." - Mark Twain

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                • Wood_workur
                  Veteran Member
                  • Aug 2005
                  • 1914
                  • Ohio
                  • Ryobi bt3100-1

                  #9
                  Looks great. Maybe you should get some vines to grow on that fence, looks a bit thin right now, but vines (climatis, trumet vine, honeysuckle) would really tie it in nicely.
                  Alex

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                  • jziegler
                    Veteran Member
                    • Aug 2005
                    • 1149
                    • Salem, NJ, USA.
                    • Ryobi BT3100

                    #10
                    George,

                    There are now roses on both sides of the bridge, both ground cover roses. That section of the garden is mostly roses.

                    Alex,

                    We have some Jasmine on a section of the fence now, we will be adding others at some point.

                    Thanks for the kind words everyone

                    Jim

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                    • crokett
                      The Full Monte
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 10627
                      • Mebane, NC, USA.
                      • Ryobi BT3000

                      #11
                      I'm with Pappy. Very nice wok on the bridge and the bench but the fence looks a little odd. I'd get some flowering vines and encourage them to grow along that fence.
                      David

                      The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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                      • Ken Massingale
                        Veteran Member
                        • Dec 2002
                        • 3862
                        • Liberty, SC, USA.
                        • Ridgid TS3650

                        #12
                        Nicely done. All of them add to your enjoyment of your home.
                        ken

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                        • GPA61
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2004
                          • 712
                          • Rancho Cucamonga, CA
                          • BT 3100 & JET JWTS

                          #13
                          Very nice projects.
                          Claudio

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