Looking for trailhead register plans

Here are 2 you may have already seen:

Image 1

Image 2

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Hi Lew,

Thanks for that. The first one appears similar to the flip down design as far as I can tell ( I couldn’t get the picture fullsize)

I did come across the second one once but couldn’t find it again. Unfortunately I can’t download it. That one looks like an old school desk where the top of the ‘desk’ flips up and the register book stores underneath.
I like that design. It’s very simple. The desktop is also the roof of the register.

I’m really hoping to find a design to get the proper dimensions of everything or else I will have to design on the fly. I know some people know I use Sketchup and wonder why I just don’t design one using that. I might just do that but it’s still a question of scale and I won’t get that until a prototype is built that I can touch and feel!

As I thought, this is not a popular woodworking item – but someone had to design and build these!

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We tend to have a combination of the signboard style, with a flip down section here in the NW. Usually locally found logs for the base, attached with rough mortise and tenon and screws to a frame of whatever is handy.

Typically 3/4” outdoor ply for the board and the flip-down section, and topped with a cedar shake gable and overhang for weather purposes.

If you can find much/most of the wood in the general area, it lends itself to a beautiful rough look that tends to fit the outdoor recreation style in my opinion.

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You could always use the photomatch function in sketch up to develop the dimensions of any photo you can find, although given the nature of the project its hard to imagine that you couldn’t just use some common sense to the establish the basic dimensions.

A google search for trailhead or trail head produces a lot of images that you can look at for various ideas.

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Thanks Llarian. Those are some good tips.

Since it’s called the Willowgrove walkway, I might just incorporate some of that into the design. There’s not much else to speak of there now as it is a recovering native bush area.

The willows are actually a pest because they reproduce so readily and clog the waterways but there’s no chance they will ever be completely taken out because the river would otherwise revert to its ‘braided river’ formation which would then allow it flow in random directions during high water and flood a wide area. Now we couldn’t have nature do whatever it was intended now, could we?

jlsmith5963 – I got the pics above from the same searches.

I think I am settling on the flip down design ( the last one shown). I rather like it’s clean look. I’ve already got a start on a prototype – though it just might end up being the final design. Since it’s going to get painted or stained anyway, it shouldn’t matter that I am using recycled pallet wood – in fact I think it adds some instant character. Pics to follow as I progress…

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gotta like this kind of job
keep us posted

-- Ron, Missouri

Not much progress yet, lots of other projects being done at the same time but here is a conceptual prototype I’ve partially assembled so far. I’m using some scrappy wood but it will be skinned with some outdoor ply.

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I’m confused why someone would need plans for something like these projects, These are the kind of projects you look at and build it so it looks like your photo. you don’t need dimensions,you just go for it.

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Hi Jim,

I was just looking for approximate dimensions and I’m trying to avoid having to reinvent a successful design. I don’t have any to look at except the pictures I found online.

Having said that, making up the design as I go along is exactly what I am doing. I was just hoping that someone might have come across a ‘reference’ design. Once I’m done, I will share this design to spare anyone else from having to reinvent it yet again.

The world progresses by cooperation and building on the knowledge of others.

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It’s been a long time but here is my version. Details to follow

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