Other than an electric drill, you can do this all with hand tools.\u00a0 If you’re hard core – you can use a manual drill (I’ve actually got one!) and do without power tools.\u00a0 Of course, as we’re cutting wood here you can get into power saws etc, but as I wanted to let my 3 year old participate it seemed like the fewer power tools involved the better.<\/p>\n Total cost was about $40.\u00a0 I used white cedar from Lanark Cedar<\/a> and weatherproof deck screws that I got at the local hardware store.\u00a0 It took a couple of hours, but if your more organized and need fewer juice breaks you can probably get it built pretty quick.<\/p>\n I originally thought that the 1×3 and 1×6 wood called for by the plans would be pretty skimpy, but as a whole the table is pretty solid.\u00a0 The table top is about 19″ off the ground, making it impractical for an adult to sit at it.\u00a0 Thus, if you’re the right size to sit at the table – it will hold your weight.\u00a0 We actually made the table \/ seats about 6 inches longer than the plans called for.\u00a0 Overall it was a very satisfying weekend project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At one point growing up if you asked me what I wanted to do my answer was that I wanted to be a carpenter.\u00a0 I liked building things, I still do.\u00a0 Of course, as I got older I realized that being a construction worker was probably going to be hard work so my tune changed.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Kids Picnic Table”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/100_5406.jpg\" "\\"100_5406\\"")
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