My brother-in-law is turning 40 next weekend.
Not sure if you’ve heard, but San Diego is doing it’s best impersonation of Seattle. Not kidding, I’ve actually traded in my flip-flops for rain boots. In any case, my brother-in-law suffered a devastating loss this season – his make-shift pallet bar was destroyed in the last storm.
So what does a project-needing, no-longer-road-tripping brother-in-law get him for his birthday? The ultimate mobile pallet bar – that’s what.
I came up with the basic idea to rebuild his bar. But how to do it? I wanted to surprise him but I knew I couldn’t build the bar I had in mind in a day. On the double-dog-dare from my friend Erik, I decided to build it on the chassis of an old motorcycle trailer I had given him. That way, I could build it in my garage, then just tow it over to his house when it was finished. Sounds reasonable right?
Well, 2-months later the Hicklebucky bar was completed and delivered. Steve (my bro-in-law), was genuinely surprised and seems pretty damn stoked. The evening ensued a lot of craft beer and tequila – so apparently the bar worked as intended.
