Picnc Benches for Lunch Area

 
by
Ishaan Agrawal,
Troop 152, Fremont


        
My Eagle project was to build two picnic tables for Tule Ponds to use. It gives volunteers, students, and anyone else a place to sit down, set their things on, or work on. The end result was two sturdy, safe, and easy-to-use picnic tables that are ideal for outdoor settings. Before the build process, I prepared and cut the wood for these tables to their appropriate size to be ready for building. I also marked and drilled the holes that would be needed later. My fellow scouts and I then assembled the combined over 200 feet of lumber together into the two picnic tables. We faced many challenges with knots in the wood, tricky placement of the half-built table while attaching legs, and needing to redrill holes to match new placements and keep everything level. On the second day we sanded the tables to get rid of any possible splinters, filled in holes with wood filler and scrap wood, and sanded down edges to make the table safer for children. Then we painted the entirety of both tables to give it a clean look and protect it from the elements.

   cutting wood sanding
There were many scouts who helped out on this project over the course of two days. On the first there were 8 scouts and on the second there were six. All of them were a huge help. Their experience with woodworking beforehand, their excitement to help out with things like with drilling, and their attention to detail helped make my Eagle project very successful. There were a big range of scouts, from new scouts to ones who were already Eagle, and all of them helped a lot.
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                    moving finished

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