The cross bar.
Very happy with the end result!
Kids called it superiffic!
It's so high that when I pushed the girls I could make a cup of tea before they came swinging back! Awesome.
We had a pretty good run at getting the posts in plumb and level only had to dig three of the holes deeper or wider or longer! (Sarcasm) it was a pain in the backside!
Liza was introduced to the supreme accuracy of my water level (see pic below)
Perhaps I should have left it at home, because I wouldn't have been quite so picky about the braces being level and the Height being so spot on as she was.
Something tells me that my usual "she'll be right" attitude towards unseen, unimportant, irrelevant construction details needs an overhaul, as Liza isn't going to like "close enough to caulk" as a house building mantra.
I'm going adopt a new mentality towards this project, one that I strive for in my furniture making and that is;
"To make as perfectly as possible" this is also the title of a new book being published by Lost Art Press, a translation of a French work on marquetry, by Andre Rubbo.
Still not sure if it applies to our garden furniture.
Now to get permanent seats in place and back into the wall again.
Yes that is a 6' ladder in the middle!
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