Best way to section test 1" solid round to 1x3" 11ga tube?

[XMS]

Built that one, already. It's full of dirt and junk from being outside, so we're doing one that starts indoors then goes out.

But yes, extra metal and a chance to play with the MIG gun (I mostly do stick)on something that won't be tooling sounded like fun. To be honest, I cut everything two months ago and am just getting to the point I have time to get out and glue it together. Problem is the one week I get a few hours to do this, it's raining like mad and I don't want to clean the shop just to do it indoors. Partly sunny on Friday, they say.

Of course, today is the day the tractor muffler comes unhinged. Will have to fix that, first.

It adds up, doesn't it?

 

[dragoneggs]

Those rotating carrousels are monstrously awesome, which is why they are now banned from pretty much every new playground today. There is still one at the park we enjoy, but our new school asked for help in putting up a new playground and I guess the list of "cannot insure" is so long they just said 'eff it and built a 'natural playground'.

Those dang things were fun but scary. I remember hanging on for dear life because the alternative wasn't going to be good. Luckily there wasn't much around it to cause a severe collision. Just some good ole raspberries on exposed skin. That is one playground toy that probably should be banned. :laughing:

 

[Arc weld]

I think they were banned because some teenagers got killed flying off one. Seems it was fun to wrap a rope around them and then hook a car to the rope to get it spinning fast. Well if fast is good, faster should be even better. If I recall they wrapped about 250' rope around the merry-go round(?) and got close to 35 or 40 mph by the time the rope came off and the riders couldn't hang on. Apparently it was best if you hung on the edge and let your legs go flailing. I think one girl was thrown about 100'.

 

[XMS]

Wow. That might explain the one I saw in California with a built-in speed limiter. You got above a certain speed and some kind of centrifugal clutch (or something) set in. I thought it hit a pretty good speed before the limits kicked in. Still fun for the kids but it couldn't get too fast. I can only imagine what one would cost, though. That is probably why they are not common.

I found a story similar to the one you mentioned - but this was an 18 year old kid killed when he and his friends decided to do a "Jackass" style stunt for a YouTube video. They even called themselves the "Dumbasses". My guess is that if one video was on the net, then lots of kids were doing it.

Dragoneggs might be right: some things are probably better in the past than the present. I know when my kids are on one of these, I won't leave because eventually some dumb older kid will show up trying to spin the little kids off (I never would have even tried that as a kid - where do these little monsters come from?).

 

[Sodo]

? and I guess the list of "cannot insure" is so long they just said 'eff it and built a 'natural playground'.

The kids have to do without monkey bars because they are a conduit for certain folks to get ahold of taxpayer funds.

Large amounts of taxpayer funds. So much that it's not worth kids having fun or exercise, for example.

What if, every year, ALL dollars acquired by attorneys that originated from taxpayer funds was simply REQUIRED to be totaled up and reported. Every year, a report to the taxpayers who got tax funds, and how much. We'd figure out a solution right quick.

Anyway with regards to your monkeybars, does it freeze hard where you live? It could take a lot more than a cup of coffee to unstick a kid's tongue from a 1" solid bar. If kids still do that..

 

[XMS]

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Anyway with regards to your monkeybars, does it freeze hard where you live? It could take a lot more than a cup of coffee to unstick a kid's tongue from a 1" solid bar. If kids still do that..

At least one of mine will.

But I think we're installing the bars in the basement play room for the winter, then moving it outside next spring. When we built the basement out, we got enough padding for their playroom to make a depression-era sanitarium envious.

The wife and I weren't worried about the little snowflakes falling and getting hurt (it happens anyway), we just thought it would be cool to have a room full of ropes, swings and gym pads. Sometimes I think the wife and I still need to grow up a little.

 

[Sodo]

Good for you. Much better than "giving them your password" so they can download an app. Injuries that fall short of maiming can be educational, but expensive anyway. Do what you can now - this stage will disappear so fast you will wonder why you didn't do more.

 

[XMS]

Thanks. My wife and I started a little late with the kid-thing. That said, we're in a place where having fun with them makes us feel younger. Until night - then we are tired. But we're in pretty good shape and bounce back fast enough.

I won't lie - the jungle room is fun stuff. My wife was a rock climber before kids, and she still likes to hang from ropes where she can. She's getting me to install a cave downstairs where we can all climb from the floor to the ceiling and back down the other side.

My winter is going to be busy.

 

[Big Barn]

Thanks. My wife and I started a little late with the kid-thing. That said, we're in a place where having fun with them makes us feel younger. Until night - then we are tired. But we're in pretty good shape and bounce back fast enough. I won't lie - the jungle room is fun stuff. My wife was a rock climber before kids, and she still likes to hang from ropes where she can. She's getting me to install a cave downstairs where we can all climb from the floor to the ceiling and back down the other side. My winter is going to be busy.

Pretty funny actually. Most people try to keep busy during the winter so they WONT be climbing the walls.

Terry

 

[Sodo]

Same here. When we remodeled my bro said " you've GOT to have a secret passageway!". So I made one between kids bedrooms - its triangular due to roof pitch, just big enough for a kid to wiggle thru, the width of a bathroom dormer. Kids and adults are envious our house has a secret passageway. Kids are more fun than I ever imagined. Almost teens now, and its different. Still fun but challenges are more significant. Loved every stage!