How To Make The ULTIMATE Outdoor Game - YouTube

There are lots of choices when it comes to activities in cottage country

For some it's a round of golf

For others it's horseshoes and beer

Sorry!

What if you could combine all those activities into one

Well there's a new game taking cottage country by storm and it's called Bola or ladder toss

simple to learn easy to build

Basically this is a really simple build

we're going to build two legs connect it with dowel to form a free-standing structure

and for that we're gonna need two two by four by eight and six feet of one inch dowel

Here's our cutting list. Out of each two by four you're going to cut a three foot six piece

two two foot pieces and two three inch pieces

basically we're gonna build a sandwich spacers are on either side of the leg

to give it stability but we'll only screw the spacer to the foot

but not the leg to the foot, so later we can pull out the ladder assembly for storage

I'm going to drill four countersink holes

and I got my spacers already predrilled

off-centred so that it doesn't conflict with my other foot

and I'm going to glue and screw them in place and use only outdoor wood glue

Now we're going to put the other foot on

Got about seven and a quarter there, so the other one will have seven and a quarter as well

There's our first leg...now we'll simply repeat for the second

We need to lay out the one inch holes for the dowel and then space them a foot apart

Three in total...I'm gonna use the top of the forstner bit as a reference for the depth of the hole

Finished the holes let's cut the dowel

We're going to need to drill clearance holes in the legs

Let's add a little outdoor glue and when I put these together

I will drill pilot holes in the dowel

Alright!

that's done

This is how it's going to go together

Have some glue to clean up

And then we're on to the balls!

Each bola consists of two golf balls and fourteen inches of polypropylene line

in order to make cutting the polypropylene line a breeze I make

two marks on my table fourteen inches apart and then I can simply cut them

with the ropes cut we need to dress the ends a little so they'll go into the hole in the golf ball

The next thing we need to do is mark the drill bit

and we want it about halfway through the golf ball about three-quarters of an inch

I actually stole these golf balls from my brother-in-law's bag don't tell 'em

fill the whole with hot glue...well not quite full

Insert end of said rope...and we all know what hot glue feels like on the fingers

Completed bola. We need five more like this

Time to have some fun

How hard can this be?

This is a really easy build and a fun game

But I need a lot more practice

There's no question that I'm the better golfer but I'm the better

almost everything when it comes to Kevin and I so

There's strike one!

Not bad!

She's done buddy

I nailed my drive it was straight as an arrow right down the fairway