It's always good to read the instructions before assembling a Muskoka chair....
I put together a Muskoka chair last week. The kit was manufactured by a company called The Bear Chair, located in South River, Ontario. The resulting chair withstood both my limited carpentry skills as well as this week’s tornado that streaked over my property (I own a trailer, so I guess I can expect a tornado to visit me once in a while…).
The instructions opened with a section dubbed “Before Assembly”, which included my favourite line: “#3 Give yourself plenty of space, making sure that the complete chair can be removed from the room”
Now, isn’t that just brilliant, pragmatic, uniquely Canadian advice! Make sure your assembled chair can be removed from the space in which you are assembling it, before you start stabbing screws into the wood. Also, though it wasn’t stated as overtly, one should read the instructions before getting to work….
Sometimes I just love this country.
