An Ify Bridge

[zenrat]

Obviously you are building a barbie for the back yard and some kids toys to be left littering the grass...

Thanks zenrat. You are getting to know me. I would not have kids toys, but perhaps more grown up toys in the yard...

Adult toys?!  Just what sort of museum is this? 
I've been to one like that in Amsterdam.

[Ify]

Considering it's only made from a few bits of wood that lawn mower is doing a cracking job of mowing the lawn!   

Thank you Kit for kind words.

[Ify]

Ye gods!

Someone at Victa screwed up the engine measurements & converted cm's to inches!

 
Or a sales gimmick  .

From afar, the lawnmower at first does not look too large, but its larger size actually becomes an emphasis gimmick.
Similar gimmicks are used in lettering (typography), not so much for emphasis but to appear the right size when in fact they are made taller, such as the letters O and S. The crest of the top and bottom curvatures are slightly extended above and below the invisible horizontal/horizon.

At first, I did not plan this with the lawn mower. But I soon realized my ad hoc approach to building it was too big. However, I remember the above gimmicks, and decided the oversize could be used in that way, especially since observers of the model will see the lawnmower from afar.

[Ify]

...I had one supplier do just that with a design for a hydraulic manifold. The result was a HUGE block of aluminium that had MASSIVE holes in it. They later used it as a centre-piece in the firm's foyer rather than scrap it. 

What a great way to turn a lemon into lemonade.

[Ify]

Thanks zenrat. You are getting to know me. I would not have kids toys, but perhaps more grown up toys in the yard...

Adult toys?!  Just what sort of museum is this? 
I've been to one like that in Amsterdam.

[Ify]

Painted the Buoy Tender, and started making bits and pieces for the deck.

[Ify]

Some of the crew need to get ashore attach a cable from the old buoy to the crane.
There mode of transport will be a rubber dinghy with an outboard motor.
This ad hoc construction was made from scrap dowels, MDF board, matchsticks, paddle-pop stick, Masonite, and a paper clip.