WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT!!

Believe it or not, but over the years I’ve gained a reputation (Unfairly) for being a little careful with money, my father always said of me, ”Tighter than a Camels arse in a sand storm.”

Anyway, I need a roof rack for the car to collect long 4 meter lengths of wood, have you seen what they charge for a skinny bit of metal to go across the car roof!! Daylight robbery if you ask me, so I’ve made my own roof rack out of string, nails and small planks…Not as pretty as a shop bought roof rack granted, but every bit as serviceable, well, more or less!!

Made the roof rack in less than an hour then it was off to the Timber Merchants in Trambesh to buy some  10 x 8 cm beams for the kitchen ceiling.

I measured the ones I wanted, then haggled over the price, people don’t haggle in Bulgaria, but I do!!

The beams were 10 lev (4 GBP) each so I only bought 10, I’ll come back to him in January when no one is building and see if I can get another 10 beams cheaper!!

The 4 meter long beams suddenly made the car look very small.

I even drew a small audience!!

Beams make an excellent sun visor and when they bounce around going over potholes add excitement to a journey.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, a close-up photo of the roof rack.

My roof rack was succesful (Didn’t break and Nothing fell off) so today I collected 60 meters of skirting board I’d had made at a carpenters shop, you can’t buy skirting board anywhere in Bulgaria, they don’t use it, so had a local Mystro (Skilled worker) make me some, 2.5 Lev per meter.

 

 

 

 

~ by travelswithmymotorbike on November 2, 2010.