Swing set

[JFortner5]

We bought a swing set for our son at our new house. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and opened everything and took it to the back yard. I kind of sorted everything out and even put the main "frame" together just so it could stand up on its own. I got up this morning hoping to just have a few hours worth of work and then enjoy the rest of the weekend relaxing.

Boy was I wrong... I didn't get that damn thing finished until about 6:30pm. I guess I've got about 10 hours in it. I only stopped once for any significant time to eat lunch. Just a rant I guess, but at least its done. If you can avoid putting one of these together I would do it.

On the plus side the little man is pretty happy and when he got on it and starting playing it made it worth it.

Joey

 

[Sunk]

A couple years ago my old boss picked up one of those HUGE playsets from Costco and he payed me and another guy for the day and a half it took us to put it together. His grandkids sure love it though!

 

[adsm08]

Man, my uncle built me half a dozen swings or so when I was a kid and he'd watch me. Never spent more than 20 or 30 minutes on one.

Guess it goes faster when you are just tying an old tire to a tree.

 

[RatDog8o8]

Built this several years ago for my kids, in the ex's back yard. No plans, no kit.....parts from Menard's, and some lumber.

The tire's one of my 35s from the F-150 I used to have.

 

[doorgunner]

Man, my uncle built me half a dozen swings or so when I was a kid and he'd watch me. Never spent more than 20 or 30 minutes on one.

Guess it goes faster when you are just tying an old tire to a tree.

yea, but.........where'd he get a tree that big....

 

[Will]

We put one of those big playgrounds together.

Then my asshole brother moved.

We got it up onto my trailer (very complicated proceedure) and inched it through town under the powerlines and set it into his new yard.

I don't do things that way. I got a steel set with a ten-foot monkey bars (horizontal ladder) with 4 swing positions and a steel slide. It was easy to put together--about 20 bolts and some concrete vs. a few ground anchors, and it only cost $1,000.

 

[Will]

yea, but.........where'd he get a tree that big....

You should see the swing I have at my rental house. I tied a bit of parachute cord to this big asses combination wrench and threw it over a big limb on a White Oak about 40' in the air. It's crazy high. I pulled the cord down, tied some military 600# green repelling rope to it, pulled it over and sent a knot up the cord that has last 15 years. The swing seat is just a board. Being that the rope for the swing is 40' long, even a gentle push sends the rider 20' in the air. It's the funnest swing in the world. I've sent little kids soaring to crazy heights on that thing. There is a gazebo nearby and you can arc them right over the top of it. Nothing better than a rope swing like that. I rode it too.

The place I live at, there are no trees with such magnificent limbs so high up. We do have highspeed internet as a tradeoff. I guess we can download vidoes of other people having fun on their rope swings.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Chicks dig swingsets! Heh heh love how the dude just guns it and hauls ass.

 

[Flat Toy]

Built this for the Grand kids last summer

Mostly scrap wood with a few old swing parts that were around.