the rails would be made of grown in place aspen trees, and the elevator mechanism would be a redirected river turning a hand made waterwheel that during the winter is an ice climbing feature.
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Big, Bad Treehouse
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n10sive
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ok...now you have gone and done it. The way out of the treehouse will now be a water driven rollercoaster that doubles as an ice feature
(fwiw, he does have a small creek running right by the treehouse).
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Keep posting pics! I'm building a replica tree house* out of toothpicks on the huge boner I have for this thread.
Steve
*Sans bridge
Steve
*Sans bridge
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n10sive
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Keep posting pics! I'm building a replica tree house* out of toothpicks on the huge boner I have for this thread.
Steve
*Sans bridge
using a apadravya to hold it all together?
tzrider
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You guys are killin' me.
And giving me ideas...
And giving me ideas...
Cycle61
What the shit is this...
Watched the video of the rollercoaster.
The internet has ruined me, I saw the kids' face on the way past the camera...
The internet has ruined me, I saw the kids' face on the way past the camera...
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: yawn
Andy - have your kids build their own roller coaster; like this one built by seven year olds at Tinkering School
[youtube]silU8T8Wd-Y[/youtube]
Oh yeah - here's a badass treehouse built by kids- hmmmm looks familiar?
The Ted Talk about tinkering school
Gever Tully - kinda my hero, and a reason you don't let your kids come to my workshop, they might learn how to do something 'dangerous.' Help wanted to write grant paperwork - I can get the property to do a school on - remember not everyone can be a middle manager, hairdresser, or part of a service industry.
tzrider
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Very cool stuff Ritch. I'll check out the videos next week. Tomorrow I start work on the staircase up to the landing.
Over and out until monday.
Over and out until monday.
Lester Green
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: yawn
Andy - have your kids build their own roller coaster; like this one built by seven year olds at Tinkering School
[youtube]silU8T8Wd-Y[/youtube]
Oh yeah - here's a badass treehouse built by kids- hmmmm looks familiar?
The Ted Talk about tinkering school
Gever Tully - kinda my hero, and a reason you don't let your kids come to my workshop, they might learn how to do something 'dangerous.' Help wanted to write grant paperwork - I can get the property to do a school on - remember not everyone can be a middle manager, hairdresser, or part of a service industry.
what a great alternative to wasting a summer. wish they had this when i was a kid.
here is another guy who built his kid a rollercoaster in the backyard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWloE7EKzQ&feature=youtu.be
[youtube]EBWloE7EKzQ&feature[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWloE7EKzQ&feature=youtu.be
[youtube]EBWloE7EKzQ&feature[/youtube]
dammyneckhurts
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Totally awesome thing you are doing with/for your kids!
Your design reminded me of this guy that built a similar treehouse:
http://thehemloft.com/
Your design reminded me of this guy that built a similar treehouse:
http://thehemloft.com/
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As said before, this is awesome!!! Are there fish in that lake?
Did you watch the meteor shower from the tree house?! That'd be too cool!
Did you watch the meteor shower from the tree house?! That'd be too cool!
SalCal
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The egghouse AKA HelmLoft link was super cool too! Thanks!
Andy, I hope your pinched nerve issue is resolving and less painful.
Andy, I hope your pinched nerve issue is resolving and less painful.
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TZrider,
As a high-end custom bay area builder for 30 years I must commend you on the beautiful well thought out work you have done. I'm jealous that I couldn't be there to help build it.
Ahren.
As a high-end custom bay area builder for 30 years I must commend you on the beautiful well thought out work you have done. I'm jealous that I couldn't be there to help build it.
Ahren.
tzrider
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As Bonerov says, there are fish. The state record German Brown was caught here, at 26 pounds.
I did watch the meteor shower, but from a local hot spring.
Yes, the egg house was cool. I ran across that during my own research.
The pinched nerve is less painful, but my left hand is still numb. It seemed I had a bit more function this weekend and I definitely slept the best I have since the nerve went haywire. Seems to be going in the right direction and I'm looking forward to playing gear with something like my normal chops.
TZrider,
As a high-end custom bay area builder for 30 years I must commend you on the beautiful well thought out work you have done. I'm jealous that I couldn't be there to help build it.
Ahren.
Thanks very much!
I'll have an update in the morning; time to drive home now. We had quite a bit of rain this weekend, which slowed things down, but we need the water, so I'm not complaining.
tzrider
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Staircase To Heaven
Last week, I was referring to the hanging bridge as "a bridge from nowhere to nowhere." This was owing to the fact that the bridge spanned between two platforms that had no access from the ground other than the ladder I have been using during construction.
This past weekend, I began construction of the staircase to get up to the smaller "landing" platform. Some of the rope for the bridge hand rails also arrived and I installed that as well. Let's start there.
The ropes for the handrails are made of "polyhemp," which is a fancy way of saying it's polyethylene rope that has been dyed to look like hemp. I chose this for the aesthetics and poly rope's resistance to weather and UV light. The hand rails are made of 1 1/4" rope, which was a good size to comfortably fit the variety of hands that will use them. A second shipment of rope arrive while I was away, consisting of 5/8" polyhemp, which will become the lacing between the hand rails and the bridge itself.
It took a while to devise a way to attach the rope ends to the posts they would be mounted to. The diameter of the rope was great enough that knots would end up about the size of a grapefruit, which wasn't the aesthetic I wanted.
I found inspiration in another bridge and shamelessly plagiarized the idea. The rope passes from the bridge, through a hole in the post, and back into a blind hole on the back side of the post. The friction of making those tight bends is almost enough to secure the rope by itself, but the rope is ultimately secured with a lag screw, shot through the rope in the blind hole, where it is subjected to very little force, no matter how hard one pulls on the rails.
First, the rope ends needed to be secured so they couldn't unravel. I melted the ends of the rope where it was cut off, which was probably sufficient. To be sure that the rope couldn't pull past the lag screws, I wanted the ends more secure than that, so I whipped the ends (wrapped them with small cord) and coated two inches of the rope ends with waterproof glue. Here is the result:
Once installed, the ropes look like this:
Here is the same photo, shown with dotted lines illustrating the blind hole and the way the lag screw secures the rope in the hole:
Last week, I was referring to the hanging bridge as "a bridge from nowhere to nowhere." This was owing to the fact that the bridge spanned between two platforms that had no access from the ground other than the ladder I have been using during construction.
This past weekend, I began construction of the staircase to get up to the smaller "landing" platform. Some of the rope for the bridge hand rails also arrived and I installed that as well. Let's start there.
The ropes for the handrails are made of "polyhemp," which is a fancy way of saying it's polyethylene rope that has been dyed to look like hemp. I chose this for the aesthetics and poly rope's resistance to weather and UV light. The hand rails are made of 1 1/4" rope, which was a good size to comfortably fit the variety of hands that will use them. A second shipment of rope arrive while I was away, consisting of 5/8" polyhemp, which will become the lacing between the hand rails and the bridge itself.
It took a while to devise a way to attach the rope ends to the posts they would be mounted to. The diameter of the rope was great enough that knots would end up about the size of a grapefruit, which wasn't the aesthetic I wanted.
I found inspiration in another bridge and shamelessly plagiarized the idea. The rope passes from the bridge, through a hole in the post, and back into a blind hole on the back side of the post. The friction of making those tight bends is almost enough to secure the rope by itself, but the rope is ultimately secured with a lag screw, shot through the rope in the blind hole, where it is subjected to very little force, no matter how hard one pulls on the rails.
First, the rope ends needed to be secured so they couldn't unravel. I melted the ends of the rope where it was cut off, which was probably sufficient. To be sure that the rope couldn't pull past the lag screws, I wanted the ends more secure than that, so I whipped the ends (wrapped them with small cord) and coated two inches of the rope ends with waterproof glue. Here is the result:
Once installed, the ropes look like this:
Here is the same photo, shown with dotted lines illustrating the blind hole and the way the lag screw secures the rope in the hole:
Cycle61
What the shit is this...
Waterproof glue?
Dale or I need to teach you how to splice sometime.
Dale or I need to teach you how to splice sometime.
n10sive
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Waterproof glue?
Dale or I need to teach you how to splice sometime.
was going to say...he needed a sailor on this project
tzrider
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Waterproof glue?
Dale or I need to teach you how to splice sometime.
If I'm not mistaken, backsplicing would have increased the rope diameter more than I wanted.