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13th July 2014, 04:05 PM #1
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Suspension Bridge for Spoilt Kitten
I am a dog man but it has been 18 months since our last dog passed away (we have had 3 dogs & 1 cat (wife's) during our 30 year marriage) so I asked my wife if she would like to get herself another cat.
She picked one up from the RSPCA within weeks but it is a Bengal cross....this means that no flat surface is high enough for this kitten...top of bookshelves, counter tops...it would rather walk across my office benches and behind the computers than walk across the clear open floor.
So I put my workshop to use and created a Suspension Bridge Walkway which suspends from the ceiling .....Wife is very happy......I only had to visit the ceiling crawl space once to locate the beams (at 55 yo, the ceiling space is not an environment I enjoy) and used my CAD Drafting program to position the equipment under the beams.
I enjoyed the process.....
Bridge 1.JPGBridge 2.JPGBridge 3.JPGBridge 4.JPGBridge 5.JPG
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13th July 2014, 05:18 PM #2
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brownie points for that effort
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13th July 2014, 05:21 PM #3
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In the words of my daughter...
“ohmygod. That’s brilliant!”
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13th July 2014, 05:21 PM #4
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So looks like the cat is well and truly in command.
How does it get up there????
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13th July 2014, 05:29 PM #5
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Lyle,
In the 1st pic you'll see a shelf under the wall clock. It used to hold books at my wife's end of the office. She cleared off the books and I glued carpet to it.
The cat leaps from the floor ..up 900 to the counter top...onto a box...up another 900 to the shelf ...then a small leap onto the LHS landing board of the bridge.
Until I create something on the RHS, she either returns the same way or she once descended from the landing board down a 1200 drop onto office benchtop
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13th July 2014, 05:45 PM #6
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On the shoulders of it's human slaves.
Originally Posted by Lyle
Cheers, Bob the labrat
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13th July 2014, 05:48 PM #7
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Cracker Skot!
As a dog man, tell me you're never tempted to give the suspension bridge a bit of "high wind" effect.
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13th July 2014, 06:07 PM #8
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If I get fed up with the cat....a couple of inconspicuous cuts of the support rope with the Stanley knife
Note to self: Have Video camera ready.....might win $500 if Funniest Home Videos comes back on air.
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13th July 2014, 11:09 PM #9
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Don't tempt me to sabotage those ropes pussy cat..............................
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14th July 2014, 10:35 PM #10
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Goes to prove dogs have masters, cats have staff
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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20th July 2014, 06:15 PM #11
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Still Slave to the Cat......
This might be the last thing I make for this cat ....for a while anyway....but I am earning brownie points from the wife
I made this Hammock Seat which is a piece of leather sandwiched between 2 x "Toilet Seat" shaped bits of ply.
The leather creates a soft seat ....now I just have to mount it on the wall
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26th July 2014, 01:19 PM #12
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26th July 2014, 01:23 PM #13
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Yebbut like a typical cat, she's not sitting in the bit that you spent so much time and effort making comfy.
How much time would you have saved if you just made it a solid timber disc? 3 hours? 4?
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26th July 2014, 01:38 PM #14
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Easily 3 hours saving if solid timber
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27th July 2014, 06:29 PM #15
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I am such a Prat
Although the cat can leap from the counter up to the Hammock Seat in one jump (approx 1.2m), ...SWMBO thought it would be good if there was a way to reduce the height that the cat had to jump...........so .......I made a step which hangs off the Hammock Seat frame which makes it easier for the cat..
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I reckon I am in line for a BJ from the wife....you know...when she says Bloody good Job
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