My Challenge, but how to build it?

Monday, February 15. 2010

This Valentine's day I got a curious surprise from a friend who listening to my endless stories about renovating houses, repairing cars, and my fascination for space travel decided to challenge me to prove myself to her.

Now I don't know why I agreed, maybe it's one of those goofy guy things we do when we like a woman, or maybe she knows me well and the challenge is just an excuse I'm using to do something again, regardless I now find myself the slightly dubious owner of a project for her house in the countryside.

I should tell you my friend does a lot of cycling, and she struggles to life her bike off the drive and onto her patio, so she asked me to build a ramp. I've renovated houses, built a stoop and stairs, but I have no idea how to build a ramp.
When I think about a ramp I know it has a slope, and I guess it only needs wooden slats, but is the angle important, and how do I arrange the joists? Researching projects like these is much easier now that we have the Internet, and I love it!

Without the Internet you'd have to go to a library and hope they had a book that was on topic, or wait for them to order one, same thing with buying books, your local bookstore only has a small selection of books, but with the Internet you can pretty much find everything you need, including free information like the How to Build Things website.

My favorite page is how to build a rat rod, heck I didn't even know what a rat rod was until I read their article but it sounds like a really cool ides. Only problem here in Spain, I've yet to see a car older then 40 years on the roads, oh well, the ramp project is enough for now.
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  1. Andrew@BloggingGuide said,

    Tuesday, February 16. 2010 at 10:04 (Reply)

    I agree with you. I also am really thankful for the internet today. You can research anything, buy something you need or just something you want with just a click of a button or more precisely your mouse. More importantly, people are now earning form the internet right from the comfort of their own home. The internet is just really great! Good luck with building the ramp! I know you can do it impressively.

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