9) We had a member in WA, one of the Pauls, who built for approx 15 or 20 years. It was his retirement hobby, up in the mountains.
He's the guy who built a log boom crane.

He reminds me that some build slow by choice or necessity.

With piers, a fellow could drive up on a Friday with bags of concrete mix. Spend the weekend mixing and pouring on site and over two days he might have finished three to five piers.