woodworking plans ladder shelf

there are lots of choices when it comes to activities in cottage country for some it's a round of golf for others it's horseshoes and beer sorry! what if you could combine all those activities into one well there's a new game taking cottage country by storm and it's called bola or ladder toss simple to learn easy tobuild basically this is a really simple build we're going to build two legs connect itwith dowel to form a free-standing structure

and for that we're gonna need two twoby four by eight and six feet of one inch dowel here's our cutting list. out of each two by four you're going to cut a three foot six piece two two foot pieces and two three inch pieces basically we're gonna build a sandwichspacers are on either side of the leg to give it stability but we'll only screw the spacer to the foot but not the leg to the foot, so later we can pull out the ladder assembly for storage i'm going to drill four countersink holes and i got my spacers already predrilled off-centred so that it doesn't conflictwith my other foot

and i'm going to glue and screw them in place and use only outdoor wood glue now we're going to put the other foot on got about seven and a quarter there, so the other one will have seven and a quarter as well there's our first leg...now we'll simply repeat for the second we need to lay out the one inch holes for the dowel and then space them a foot apart three in total...i'm gonna use the top of the forstner bit as a reference for the depth of the hole finished the holes let's cut the dowel we're going to need to drill clearance holes in the legs let's add a little outdoor glue and when i put these together

i will drill pilot holes in the dowel alright! that's done this is how it's going to go together have some glue to clean up and then we're on to the balls! each bola consists of two golf balls and fourteen inches of polypropylene line in order to make cutting thepolypropylene line a breeze i make two marks on my table fourteen inches apart and then i can simply cut them

with the ropes cut we need to dress the ends a little so they'll go into the hole in the golf ball the next thing we need to do is mark the drill bit and we want it about halfway through thegolf ball about three-quarters of an inch i actually stole these golf balls from my brother-in-law's bag don't tell 'em fill the whole with hot glue...well not quite full insert end of said rope...and we all know what hot glue feels like on the fingers completed bola. we need five more like this time to have some fun how hard can this be?

this is a really easy build and a fun game but i need a lot more practice there's no question that i'm the bettergolfer but i'm the better almost everything when it comes to kevinand i so there's strike one! not bad! she's done buddy i nailed my drive it was straight as an arrow right down the fairway