Trellis for parents' vine

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First welding project (other than just getting used to the MIG welder I got).  Did this late last summer.Parents wanted a trellis to hold the wisteria vine away from the house (particularily to prep it for when we remodel the house, so it wasnt entwined into the roofing).The vertical ladder that is around the base of the vine is bolted together, the other end is one solid piece. The two ladder sections going across are bolted to the towers and together at the middle.The only real flaw in the whole design is on either ends of the ladders; I wanted to do a kind of slot A into hole B design (having the ends cup around one another) with some cut square tubing, but my dad thought this was a waste of time and made me just weld on 1.5" wide straps of metal, and bolt them together. These, of course, bent under the weight of the structure, and I had to rig in between the ladders a 1.5 square tube piece to try and remedy the problem (... it didn't).The other letdown was that my parents agreed to get the whole thing powdercoated, and then told me to just spray paint it when I was done making it. Ah well, that at least let me paint both it (and the fillers I made) some fun colors.Final size for this thing is about 11 ft high by about 20 ft long. The two 'fillers' I made a few weeks afterwards, and were themed after the area around our house (stream running through our property and the trees around us).Previous to tieing up the vineVine tied up and trimmed back for winterVine growing back nowWater reeds filler idea sketched out on 'table'Water reeds welded togetherProgress shots of making Leaves Sun fillerFinished Leaves Sun fillerI've done a few other small projects since this one (some machine 'parts' for my dad's company, a battery gaurd and a ram air setup for my corvette), but I'm really hoping to land a fulltime job at the video game company I'm working at, cause I intend to replace a section of cubible wall with something welded together.
Reply:Hey sounds cool you have any pics?