Lots of good times were had this Father's Day. Matt was put to work to rig up our redneck swing set. It was almost half the cost of the cheapest medal kind found at Walmart. Not to mention the fact that we didn't need the slide and the swings are the hard plastic bench kind that don't hug little ones hips, so they slide off mid swing.
The biggest expense of this was buying the 18 ft of chain, costing $30. The belt swing was $20 and we already had the baby swing as a hand me down from last year.
We drilled right into the very large tree trunks. Both the chain and hooks are rated for 800 pounds. The only difficulty was having one tree to be of softer wood. That problem was fixed by putting the hook on the other side of the trunk so the tension would be pulling differently.
I love having the shade of the trees over the swings and using nature as the posts. This was another reason we were gun shy of getting the metal variety and trying to keep the A-frame posts to stay in the ground. As much as we would have LOVED to have a nice expensive wooden set, or even metal...but I'd hate to spend money on it and then find out we had to move. Plus not having all the tools, the cost of making our own wooden with expensive from pressure treated wood and the outrageous cost of the hardware kits didn't make sense.
Now to just teach Eliza how to pump her legs so I am not held an all summer long prisoner of pushing her ;)
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