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Bob's Dad, Charles Gilmore (age 83), designed
and helped build a lift to take materials up the mountain.
We nicknamed it The Charlie Horse in his honor.
It took 5 days to construct, but proved to be the best
thing since sliced bread, as you will
see in the following pictures.
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An arduous task, digging post
holes. |
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It took over an hour to dig each hole
busting up the rocks with a heavy wrecking
bar and using a manual post hole digger,. |
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This is the second day of digging,
. carrying sackrete, and plumbing
the landscape timbers we used as support posts. |
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We dug little steps in the slope
to stand in as we worked.. |
We used ropes to tie ourselves to the steps
of the house to keep us from falling off the slope.. |
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It was a relief to get those posts set. |
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Then we added tracks made from 2x4s.
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