By far the biggest challenge has been the set up of the pull-up station. The first weekend consisted of cleaning the space. The next weekend was supposed to be the weekend we set up the pull-up station.

I was determined to knock it out in one day. I put in my order for steel pipe and all the connection and screws on Wednesday at Lowe’s to be picked up on Saturday. Well, Lowe’s decided it wasn’t too big a deal to leave out an elbow connection or two. They politely marked the number they were able to set aside on the list I gave them… but decided it was too much trouble to get the missing pieces from a nearby store. They left that up to me. Bah! I’ll get the rest later! Anyway, I charge off with my shorted loot, still convinced and determined to hang the pull-up station TODAY dang-it!

Well long story short: it didn’t happen. Not close. My plan to have a pull-up system hung off the wall was great, except the wall is completely inadequate to support a pull-up system of steel, let alone a bunch of people kipping for time.

So I spent the rest of the week making plans to beef up the wall that I wanted to hang the station from. That plan didn’t work either.   So I sat down, with pen and paper, and devised a set up that will anchor to the floor and spent the remainder of Saturday morning running around returning material and purchasing new material.  And so it is that I have come up with a contraption I will call “The Wee Beasty”. I think it will serve Ground Zero better than the idea of suspending the station from the wall.  Here is a pick of the progress we made last Saturday.