Building a Haunt on a hill … where our house is … on a … house on haunted hill! Oh! I just got that. Anyway … when you build structures that are meant to go on an incline, you have to engage in some additional engineering to make them stand “up” (where up is based …
Category Archives: Stanley
Stanley’s Mausoleum
We needed a new place for Stanley to hang out. It needed to be tall enough that he could travel his full range of motion (over 2 feet), be protected from wind and rain, and… well… look cool. Putting together the structure wasn’t the challenge. The challenge would be building it in a modular way …
Flying Crank Ghost
Our flying crank ghost is named Stanley. Stanley made his debut in 2005. He weighed a ton in those days, necessitating a counterweight on the rig to allow the ghost to climb back to the top. To display him, we ran an extension ladder between the garage roof and the front porch. It was just …