My wife's Uncle helped me build it a number of years ago. He was 83 at the time and was in construction for years and could work circles around me. He did some really nice things when building it showing off his skills. We lost him in a accident about 3 years ago. The car he was riding in got "T"-boned and he only lived long enough to be extricated from the car and died on the way to hospital. He had just turned 93 I think it was.