Play set

a lot of work good job

-- life an woodworking is one big experiment

Nice job. Did you make any good discoveries on where to purchase the slides and hardware? Something like this is in my future as well.

-- some day I hope to have enough clamps to need a clamp cart!

The kids will have a good time playing. Dadof5 excellent set of games. Congratulations.

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Thanks for the comments. The kids and neighborhood kids love it. There is usually 5 or 6 children playing at once, but we’ve counted as many as 18 out there. I don’t know where they all come from.
If you’re interested in building a play set, I found parts and components as well as complete ready to assembles at Playstar play systems (http://www.playstarinc.biz/default.aspx ). I bought a box of components and purchased the wood local. The box comes with instructions for building a play set, which I used as a guide, but modified the set to fit my yard and meet the kids exspectations. It took two days to build the majority of it, and several more weeks to complete the finishing touches and asessories. I consider it a work in progress, because the kids would like a fire pole, a rope bridge and possibly a zip line added. The pole will be easy but I’ll have to add another tower to put in a bridge or a zip line.
Did I mention this was a lot of fun for the big kids too?

-- Dadof5, Indep. MO

Nice set. Lucky kids you got.

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

Thanks for the reply Dadof5

-- some day I hope to have enough clamps to need a clamp cart!