Project Information
Edit: Over the years a many of you fellow jocks have requested the plans - Thank you for the interest! I have sent the file hopefully to all of you, but unfortunately my computer's hard drive have since crashed and I dont have the file anymore…sorry.
My wife suggested I make some sort of a jyngle gym for the kids. I agreed but warned her that it would take "a whole weekend". Nine working days later (six days of my own time; three of those with my dad helping me) the contraption is ready (excluding the railings surrounding the deck, to be made of thick rope).
Made of Siberian Larch. I tried to pay special attention not to create any spaces where a child's neck or head could get into a bind; towards that purpose I filled the gap between the diagonal corner supports and the actual corner with diagonal thinner boards, and lifted the "skirt" of the climbing wall clear off the ground.
Hardest part by far was the foundations: Figuring out the vertical measurements on the ground with a self-made water-hose-level, and making & positioning the concrete feet in the right positions both vertically and horizontally. I built a separate jig that held in place the metal feet while the concrete (in up-side down turned buckets with their bottom cut out) hardened.
My wife suggested I make some sort of a jyngle gym for the kids. I agreed but warned her that it would take "a whole weekend". Nine working days later (six days of my own time; three of those with my dad helping me) the contraption is ready (excluding the railings surrounding the deck, to be made of thick rope).
Made of Siberian Larch. I tried to pay special attention not to create any spaces where a child's neck or head could get into a bind; towards that purpose I filled the gap between the diagonal corner supports and the actual corner with diagonal thinner boards, and lifted the "skirt" of the climbing wall clear off the ground.
Hardest part by far was the foundations: Figuring out the vertical measurements on the ground with a self-made water-hose-level, and making & positioning the concrete feet in the right positions both vertically and horizontally. I built a separate jig that held in place the metal feet while the concrete (in up-side down turned buckets with their bottom cut out) hardened.