Very true!

True Dat! Best Toys are always in the Sandbox!!🤣😂🤣😂😁

Yeah, I can't believe it either.

Yeah that's the way those always go. I think the satisfaction from building community though makes it worth it. Good on you for helping out!

Thanks Mr. Bauer!

@@digdrivediy You can call me Butch now.

Yes and yes. It was miserably cold and windy yesterday when we were working on this. Any other time we would have opted out but we were working against a deadline because the new playground must be installed April 12-15th. We still have a lot to get done before we are ready so just trying to take advantage of the weekends. The retired Park rangers will now work a little more leisurely through the week to cut all the concrete off all those wooden poles and then start getting rid of all the debris. And yeah I had to work into the wee hours to get this one cranked out. I'm getting better at purposely filming in order to help facilitate the edit, which was helpful though. The weather is really slowing down. My options. Need to paint that darn tractor but just can't get the weather to cooperate. Hopefully this new playground will be all worth the effort on this though. Can't wait till that's finished as well! It has been a long 3-year process. Stay warm there Dave!

Would have been more fun if not so darn cold! :)

Thanks Johan!

Thanks Joe. That tractor myself are both waiting for a nice warm day to get things painted!

I am amazed by him and my Dad both.

Tobacco sure has spoiled me in terms of manual labor Susan! I wasn't sure we'd be able to get that merry-go-round out or the tree stump for that matter, but little patience and it came right out. Part of me felt sad about tearing out the old merry-go-round but I guess some things just have a lifespan and he got to say goodbye. Thanks so much for checking it out!

*The BACK HOE has spoiled him (not tobacco)

Oh, I've seen a lot of your work on Instagram. Matt! You make some awesome stuff for sure. Everyone gets to help in a different way and it's all valuable. To me that's what makes community.

It is certainly nice having everyone around that is willing to pitch in and help! Thanks Meirion!

Thanks so much!

I think a chain wrap would have worked just as well but was just looking for something that was really fast and easy to do. I plan to do some filming when we put up the playground too so hopefully folks will be interested in watching it.

Usually a day on a JD is a pretty good day 🙂

Thanks 👍

I really like to get some kids involved. It's harder all the time to find kids that want to do this stuff. It seems. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

That's awesome! Hopefully you can bring your kids back here some day for the new playground!

Had to burn a little midnight oil :)

Happy birthday Shane! Yeah I hope to be able to share the new playground as we install it as well. It'll be quite the project!

That darn wind...

Glad you enjoyed it!

Actually I'm at a point where the weather is starting to impede my progress. I need to be able to paint and it has just been too cold!

Hey thanks a lot. It's very easy to be way better than me though! Thanks so much for watching!

@@digdrivediy I love the video and love all the tractors and love your backhoe that’s my dream

If you ever get that upgrade I will probably buy your old backhoe if you sell it

@@chand2337 I'll keep that in mind. Never know when the right opportunity might come along!

Thanks Mike. From what I have read, the pressure treated lumber from that time. Was full of arsenic and it's advised to not burn it. I think to play it safe. I am not going to burn it in my wood stove so that it's not around our house. Originally I wanted to but figured better safe than sorry and there is not much to it cuz it's all hollow and full of holes anyway.

@@digdrivediy That makes sense. Thanks!

Hey thanks for the cameo in this video Stephen! I should have introduced you on camera but I was getting too many things going on in my mind at one time! :) If I could change anything about that day to make it better it would have been to wait for it to be warmer!! :) Thanks for the visit!

@@digdrivediy lol! No worries. I didn’t need an intro :) I was just happy to Visit. You certainly did have a lot going on on that very chilly day 🥶 I can’t wait to see what’s next for the play ground!!!

Yeah I was running a little late! :)

I hear you!

That's awesome 👍🏻

It was very windy and cold.

Yeah I know. I didn't realize 318 day until I was right on top of it! That would have been cool. The weather is keeping me from finishing that project cuz I need to paint.

Awesome, thank you!

Haven't brought the tree home yet but I will.

Yeah no joke! The new playground requires 8 yards of concrete I think!

I have noticed that :/

Yeah I was just spitting a few times. Nothing to stick at least.

Yes, it was terrible yesterday. We're working against a hard deadline so we just got to get it done.

^True. We may replace that mulch eventually.

Hey Don. I did ask him and he doesn't think he worked there. He said there was another Ken Koch in the Union and maybe it was him.

@@digdrivediy thank you for the response. I was on that job exactly 1 year and he was the foreman on the job and was there before me and after I left so if your uncle was on that job he would have remembered it.