This week I have been working on a theater set for my daughter’s high school. I have been donating some things, mostly time to the cause. Having my business has given me the ability to donate. The business has also given me contacts to help with rentals and other things we have needed to build, and hang the set. The thing I love about helping with the set building is it gives me the opportunity to be creative. We were installing a piece of scenery that will go up and down in the show and we needed to have the counter-weight the same as the set piece so a student could make the changes. We needed another two hundred and twenty five pounds to equal it out. I borrowed two, one hundred pound dumb bells but then needed to figure a way to suspend them from a cable and still be able to attach the other weights. I had some angle iron at home and cut and welded them together in such a way that the cable attaches to a vertical angle that is centered. I then took and made a piece resembling an “H” and closed the ends in so that the vertical was welded to the center of the “H” and the dumb bells were caught by the two end pieces. To add the weights we already had, I wrapped a chain around the structure parallel to the long sides of the “H” and when pulled tight prevented the dumb bells from lifting off of the frame. The chain also served the purpose of an attachment point for the other weights. It worked seamlessly.
I am still trying to decide what to do for my $100 challenge for my business class. I think I am going to try and market my baked beans. If I get pre-orders I will not have to have product until I actually start selling and I will be able to have more revenue to work with and little to no overhead. I will start with selling to people who have already sampled my beans. This will give me a great base to start this challenge.
Lessons learned
Hundred Pound dumb bells are very heavy.
Lessons yet to learn
I don’t have to do everything. The students that were helping were amazing.
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