shelter
pyramid power
May/15/07 | permalink
We had another
meeting on Thursday and voted to continue onward with the current
design for the pyramid...
I've got a quote on the freight & materials for the fabric: 30 14' x 48' mega heavy duty tarps, $40 each = $1,200 + the best deal I could find for freight is $425 (they weigh a ton, literally). $1,625 for our running total.
At this point we have $2,000 to work with. We still have to get cables, the mast, some sort of come-along/crank/pullie system, the mast, and some heavy duty stakes. I'm not too worried if we go a little over budget, I'm sure some money will fall from the sky if we need it to (aka the BU credit card). If this thing works it will be a good investment (if not financiall at least in the sense of empowering good people to do silly things).
....wow, that could be a new Boogie Universal slogan: "Empowering good people to do Silly Things...."
I'm waiting to hear back from Ron about the welding and mast building.
I'm also pricing cable. If anyone happens to know a good place for such or sees anything on craigslist or anything, we need about 1,500 feet of 1/4" vinyl coated galvanized or stainless steel cable and about 180 feet of 3/8", 1/2", or 5/8" for the corners. While I'm at it, if anyone has about 36 feet of 6" diameter steel pipe....
We could forseeably have all of this stuff within a week. I think our first work party will probably be not this Sunday, but the next one. I'll keep you posted.
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