Construction update
Today I put down the plywood flooring on the upper and lower platforms on the tower. I also built the two large “X” braces on the sides. Now the tower is very stable. I can stand on it and it doesn’t wobble at all. Ray mentioned that he thought that doing the concrete footings is hardcore. I wouldn’t think of doing something like this without them. Lucinda’s swing set is also anchored in concrete. When I was a kid, my Dad did concrete for my swing set, and it was like a rock. I remember going over to some other kid’s house to play and having his swing set topple over when we were playing on it. Of course I knew that would never happen with my swings. And so of course I decided that it should never happen to my kid’s swings, either. So I make concrete.
Next order of business is going to be the ladder to climb up to the top, and railings around the top platform. Then I will add the monkey bars.
June 19th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
Oh, yeah, if you’re doing swings, that makes sense.
Ours was just a clubhouse with a ladder and a slide.
And it was very solid, built between two trees and bolted to them.