For my next trick: A gun platform is being built.
This so that the Mountain Howitzer of Argghhh! won't list quite so drunkenly, nor be in ground contact. This involves the tractor, the Ranger, shovels, cement blocks, saws, drills, ratchets... and splintery wood beams and planks permeated by poisons. Not to mention schlepping the gun around.
Yes, the Emergency Room has been put on notice, and extra suture kits laid out. Your concern is touching.
Yes, I'm aware of the corrosive properties of ground-contact treated wood. That is being dealt with.

Update: It ain't done, but it's taking shape, and, as yet, is not blood-stained. There *is* chicken-poop on it. But then, at Castle Argghhh!, there's chicken poop on nearly everything at some point. It's also startin' ta get rather purty round here, too.



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The hay bales are to entice Bambis from the woods so you can conduct your own version of "deer-hunting with a cannon" -- at *close* range...
Close range cannon deer hunting. Is that how McPatties are made?
BTW is that wood thick enough? It looks like cardboard.
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Even if the Usual Armorer Carpentry is all that happens, he'd be a cinch...
Just be careful, but you know that. I looked at a muzzle-loading artillery web site and clicked on the accident reports. There were an amazing number of people who had theiir hands blown off, or horribly messed up, while doing things around the muzzle.