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Thread: How would YOU make monkey bars?
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11th November 2010, 01:54 PM #1
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How would YOU make monkey bars?
So the fort's done, just painting it up and making it look pretty. Now the kids have requested a set of monkey bars (eek, they'll be VERY low to the ground).
How would you make them?
I was thinking of using thick dowel and putting them say half way into some 90 by 45 treated pine rails, gluing them in then putting in a small timber screw to secure them.
Anyone have a better idea?
What about using plumbing gal pipe?
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11th November 2010, 05:52 PM #2
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Hi perthmum,
kids will demolish something made out of wood, so in this case I'd go around to the local school yard and check out their monkey bars, I'll bet their made out of steel gal pipe welded, very strong! No don't nick em, make your own!
Regards...Oddjob1
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11th November 2010, 07:45 PM #3
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I'd go with your idea of treated pine rails/stringers, and use gal pipe rungs sunk into them. To tie it together maybe try threaded bar (x3, at each end and the centre?) inside the pipes, and recess the nuts & washers, on the outside, for safety sake.
CheersAndy Mac
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11th November 2010, 09:25 PM #4
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The wooden dowels will eventually get rough and end up with splinters. Don't make the rungs too thick or the kids won't be able to get their hands around them.
In the end I decided they could walk around to the local park if they really wanted to!Cheers, Richard
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18th November 2010, 05:38 PM #5
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I think I would buy one of those multi fold ladders and take the ends sections off.
Tack weld the joint and support the ends with timber postsregards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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18th November 2010, 07:14 PM #6acmegridley Guest
First catch your monkey
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18th November 2010, 08:41 PM #7
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18th November 2010, 10:03 PM #8
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