a fairground life(hands on)

Like many showmen, I'm quite handy, a jack of all trades, i've got to be. Money is tight all over, not just in our trade and as a result you have to do the best you can to minimise cost when available. Dont get me wrong! when it comes to certain things especialy safety you have to get proffesional help, but the ordinary every day repairs,maintenance,DIY etc are done in house.I can/ i am, a welder,spray painter,coach builder,cabinet maker,panel beater,mechanic,electrician,hydraulic,engineer,sign writer, artist,fibreglass moulder, designer, manager,lorry driver,husband and dad. By no means the A all and B all of these skills, but enough to get by.
So this weeks project will be to trailer mount a new attraction we recently purchased. In doing so the savings will be around £7000. Well worth getting your hands dirty for. The attraction in name is a set of water lasers. You may have seen something similar on your travels. You know! insert a coin and shoot water at firemen or in our case pirates.Its only 3m long and 2m wide but it takes around 3hrs to set up and then you have to fill it with about 800lts of water, on top of this the LDV van i have cant hold whole item at once and results in a double trip for every event. So i have decided to trailer mount the attraction. This will result in a towable unit 3m L x 2m W x 2.2m H, the design will reduce the amount of water required to around 100lts, the assembly time/ de-rig time to about 10minutes and enable me to add more themeing/decoration. Well worth the expenditure and work effort. My son"R" will be assisting (civil engineering student), this could be interesting. i've ordered the materials and will be starting in a couple of days. I will post photos of the progress. this will be outdoors so i hope the weather holds.
I really do enjoy this type of "creative" work, making something. watch this space!