other project from Mack, since I think the heptagons aren;t going to take our entire crew:

Other request from our wedding in one month is to give the bear mountain ceremony site a spruce up. 
Ripping the existing haybales apart to scatter them / compost. 
Ladder + scrape off old paint 
New coat of white paint on the vertical structure. 
In the event a person or two from your crew wants to tackle something separately.

haha ripping haybales sounds fun (i'm allergic tho) scraping paint can be fun as long as you aren't a perfectionist and use caulk to fill the gaps new coat on white paint on there is a solid work weekend activity. Not especially fun, but not too hard and clear contribution. Can be done all manner of twisted, so long as you take a look at it for half an hour the next day.

I will once I have a few more deets

what about the existing 4' boards? i thought we were going to try to use those mostly

Couple of thoughts on that – 1. I don’t think we have enough. If we do, it’ll be close, and it would suck to run out. 2. It’s in poor shape, and if we’re going to be doing this much work, let’s make something that lasts 3. New wood is like $200. If Mack doesn’t want to spend this much on an art piece, I’m fine paying for it myself 4. We can use the old wood as decorative elements.

Agree. Wedding people don’t want colors that they don’t pick themselves. “Wood” is a very good color, and we can just seal it.

Do we need to seal PT wood?

PT works. We don't have to seal it. New wood we do have to carry, but it's not nearly as far as last time. 🐴

We should still seal the ends of PT

Is a corded drill useful? Otherwise have variety of hand tools, but not sure what is most needed to pitch in? Thoughts?

@strong-policeman-36797 Corded not good. I’m bringing a corded chopsaw and a genny, but it won’t be running all the time. Paintbrushes good, if you have some tools to strip paint that might be helpful

Okay. No need for hammer, wrenches, sockets and such?

not using nails. i’ll bring my socket set

@strong-policeman-36797 - do you have any landscaping tools like rake? I think making better lake access points is a really good thing to do up there and is mostly "clear a little path, make some rope/thing to help ppl get down, have a little flat space/dirt/platform by the water"

@cool-pizza-44770 Alas, no. Not much use for such things in high rise condo.

I have a rake that I can bring!

If you have room. All these tools exist at MM. Most important thing to bring is GLOVES. And closed-toe shoes. There’s lots of poison oak if you’re going to be doing any “gardening” out there.