BL Workshop

Build a flagpole, table or chair for your camp

By Aaron Derr
Photographs by Kevin Liles
From the February 2008 Boys' Life magazine

Give your average camper a set of spars and a coil of rope, and in return you’ll most likely get only a puzzled look.

But present those same materials to a pioneering expert and you’ll get chairs, tables, bridges and all kinds of equipment that’s useful in the outdoors.

Here’s how to build three items — a chair, a flagpole and a table — that could be useful around camp. Click on the pictures for detailed instructions and how-to videos.

Build a flagpole
Show your colors by building a flagpole for your camp.

Build a camp table
Keep your stuff out of the dirt by building a table for your camp.

Build a camp chair
Relax around camp by building a comfortable chair.

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1. 1 - dude says:
   January 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am

   i con make char ez .

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