Swing Project - Engineering Advice Needed

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by KC911

Seems reasonable...how to attach...resting on the small branch nooks if they are somewhat perpendicular to the pipe and lashed to the trunk?

That would be my first choice. You can also lash a stout rope over a branch parallel to the pipe and cradle the pipe in it. It’s not likely you’ll find branches on two trees that are at the same level anyway. Find branches on each tree that will keep a rope from sliding down the trunk, establish loops from each one to cradle the pipe so it is held horizontally, and voila (or walla or viola if you’re from Ohio) you’re done.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Oh man, sounds like our “tree fort.” My parents weren’t engineers obviously, or they would have forbidden my siblings and cousins to go near my creation. No one died, and I learned a lot about design as well as the anatomy of the opposite sex in that structure.

Yeah, same here. Now I have an "arborist/tree-swing" specialist coming to the house on Tuesday to show me the way. More to follow...

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by sand_man

I have an "arborist/tree-swing" specialist coming to the house on Tuesday to show me the way.

Dad911 and I missed our calling. If I had any idea there was such a profession I would have majored in it in college.

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Dad911 and I missed our calling. If I had any idea there was such a profession I would have majored in it in college.

Funny, seems like a nice kid. And I'm actually excited to hear what he has to say. There really is a niche for everything.

https://www.piedmonttreeclimbing.org/p/tree-swing-installation.html

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Oh man, sounds like our “tree fort.” My parents weren’t engineers obviously, or they would have forbidden my siblings and cousins to go near my creation. No one died, and I learned a lot about design as well as the anatomy of the opposite sex in that structure.

Hundreds if not thousands died during my "tree fort" daze....but girls back then had cooties....ewww

[LEAKYSEALS951]

criminy.

This is a porsche website, therefore I suggest the solution include 'guessing' at (and then frustratingly setting at a wrong position)- torsion bar spline height.

[sand_man]

Now, you're talking!! Best idea, EVAR!

[sand_man]

And my stooopid 993, with its coil-over suspension!!! I'll to figure out a way to use the old crap I took off my car!

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by KC911

Hundreds if not thousands died during my "tree fort" daze....but girls back then had cooties....ewww

Call me an early adopter.

[A930Rocket]

Please tell me it wasn’t your siblings and cousins who played “doctor”!

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Oh man, sounds like our “tree fort.” My parents weren’t engineers obviously, or they would have forbidden my siblings and cousins to go near my creation. No one died, and I learned a lot about design as well as the anatomy of the opposite sex in that structure.