Job Duties

We’ve been here for three weeks and haven’t really gotten many jobs to do.  This park has four volunteer pads.  Two pads are for campground hosts and are located at the beginning of the campground loop and two pads are for maintenance hosts which are located far away from the campsites and close to the maintenance shop.

A few of the jobs we have done so far are:

Check the fire extinguishers in the bird blinds to make sure they are “in the green.”

We’ve helped trim a few branches in the campground that a camper got into with his RV.

Mark helped put a new alternator in one of the John Deere Gators.

We were given a list of picnic tables that needed their boards “turned.”

We had several picnic tables that needed their tops turned - this happens when campers spill oil all over the table or they catch the table on fire when they put their grill on top of the table, or it could be that the boards just get old, dry out, and split.

There are numerous bolts and nuts that hold the boards in place - these have to be taken out.

The board is flipped.  If the board has been flipped before, a new board can be cut.

Then the boards are bolted down.  Sometimes the bottom doesn’t look much better than the top.

We’ve had a few other jobs to do but we have really started out slow.

Unfortunately, due to some health issues we have had to leave the park and are back home.  We hope to make some trips at the beginning of the year before we head out to our next volunteer assignment for the summer of 2020.