My arms are aching. The kids are out of school for spring break, and my wife got a new trampoline for them to play on. I got dragged out of the office just now to help her secure those "last few springs" to hitch the trampoline to its frame.

More like 20 of them, and each one harder to pull. There's a special tool to use, a glorified hook, but I couldn't get the oomph needed for the last seven or so. You put the tool around a metal tab on the trampoline fabric, then pull with all your worth to stretch that tab back to where you have the spring in your other hand. Theory goes, you just pop the hook on the spring over the tab and you're bouncing. But these last ones -- even with all three of us tugging on the trampoline, we couldn't close the gap.

We thought about perhaps losing up more of the other springs to get more give, and I pondered if I had any type of winching tool forgotten in the garage. Perhaps some chain and one of the car jacks....

Finally, I got on the trampoline itself and tried using the tool to pull the spring toward the trampoline hook. Voila! Turns out pulling a spring with all your might works a far sight easier than trying to pull the not-so-yielding fabric of a trampoline.

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