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Generator Box

Lazlo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:20:27 +0000

Therapist and I built, or over built, the coolest Generator enclosure you’ve ever seen. Or, well, that I’ve ever seen. And I haven’t really seen many… The build goals were: light weight, cheap, quiet, self ventilating, and packable – as in, breaks down flat. Success! It only took us about 40 hours, which isn’t bad considering we carved the whole thing by hand out of a single piece of wood… Unfortunately these pics don’t do it justice…

Burlap construction complete!

Lazlo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:22:28 +0000

Between last Tuesday and today, we did the following:

Completed Green Tower A
Seamed the rest of the green burlap
Completed Green Tower B
Created green skirts for the tunnel sections (x 2)
Created the silhouette farm scene for the top of the structure out of green felt and fish net
Re-glued all the edges of burlap with proper glue for more strength

Still to do:

Re-glue edges of Facade side B
Build a generator box
Create signage
Paint “Mant Farm” along skirts for bottom of structure
etc…

First green tower started

Lazlo — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:07:07 +0000

Started the first green tower today, it’s mostly done. Lots of grommetting and gluing… Also finished the ring-tooling on Facade Side B. Great crew turn out again, thanks everyone!

Green Burlap. Finally!!

Lazlo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:35:03 +0000

Received the green burlap today, 11 roles. Waited a long time for this stuff. Also cut it all to size, ready to be seamed…

First Facade finished, second on its way…

Lazlo — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:49:42 +0000

Great crew turnout today! Facade Side A is finished and Side B is nearly complete, just needs some ringing done. Impressive amount of progress for one hot day, thanks everyone!!

A little more progress…

Lazlo — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:42:27 +0000

Completed most of the grommets and ring-tooling for Facade Side A, but not done yet.

First full construction day a success

Lazlo — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:48:31 +0000

First full day of construction on the Mant Farm completed. Thanks to everyone who came out and busted their humps all day today, couldn’t have done it without you!

Work today consisted of constructing Facade Side A (tunnel section):

chalk lined where scaffolding will be
marked out where all grommets go
marked out where to cut tunnels
rolled glue over all tunnel lines
glued patches of canvas to all grommet locations
cut out tunnel sections
set a bunch of grommets (not all yet)
utility knife surgery
applied 2 layers of old salmon fish net to facade
attached fish net with ring tool (not done)
framed entire facade in rope including 2 vertical members (this is for keeping the shape constrained)
rolled, folded and stuffed into my car…

Burlap for first wall complete

Lazlo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:25:42 +0000

Completed seaming together the first wall of natural burlap for the tunnel section today. It wasn’t easy to move it in a big wad but we had to get it out of the studio and fold / role it up. Next step is to cut out the tunnels and repeat for the other side.

More Burlap…

Lazlo — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:54:35 +0000

Cut up the rest of the natural colored burlap today…

More Goods…

Lazlo — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:34:39 +0000

We got a bunch of stuff in this week:

Ring tool and thousands of rings
Thousands of zip-ties
A bunch of flood lights
Hundreds of feet of light rope, green and white
And the rest of the natural colored burlap