Welding!

My welding skills are growing by leaps and bounds. The manure spreader/ wood wagon has been really fun to practice on and the other day a piece broke off a winch that we needed to put up a fence. We threw it in the back of the truck and I welded it back on post haste. So much fun!

Welding

Another one of our winter classes is welding. It's really fun to learn, mostly because you can make sparks fly really far just like in the movies.

We have independent projects over the summer and I'm thinking about using my new skills to make one of these:

Yes, that's right. A giant steel ball with fire inside. Amazing.

Let There Be Doors!

Olivier, in our winter farm carpentry workshops, informed us that we would be building new barn doors for the lower barn. I never would have thought that I possessed the skills to do something quite that cool, but it turns out that I do. We built a frame, added the fancy diagonal panelling and used a jigsaw to cut out space for windows. Olivier taught us how to use a router for the shelf for the windows to sit on and we used chisels to even out the corners. All would have gone well if we'd actually been good at math. Instead of counting correctly, we spent and extra two hours frustrated because the opening was too small for our panes of glass. In the end, we finished both doors and had time to hang the first one up. So pretty!

Only one door! So sad!

Sophia with the jigsaw:

Success!